Browsing by Author "Dickinson, Tim"

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    Broken
    (2013-10) Smith, Sophy; Dickinson, Tim
    Broken premiered at Warwick Arts Centre on 02 October 2013 and has been touring extensively to great acclaim ever since. Visually thrilling and full of trickery, Broken erupts onto the stage. Building on the success of international hit Scattered, Broken probes our precarious relationship with the earth, luring the audience into a world of shifting perspectives. Highly athletic dance is submerged within intricate digital imagery and original music in an unashamedly visual and adrenaline fuelled spectacle, contrasting the caves of our ancient ancestors with modern apartments of glass and steel, juxtaposing the mythical underworld where our hopes and fears are amplified with the visceral overworld of light and speed, questioning our ambivalence towards our world, that is, until disaster strikes. Hanging in suspense, diving for support and scrambling to safety, the dancers negotiate the cracks and craters of a world of illusions where nothing is quite as it seems. Broken is an unashamedly visual spectacle: ravishing, delicate and poignant taking the audience, on a journey into the earth as you have never seen it before. Following two UK tours Broken will be performed in China in autumn 2014 with future tours to Europe and the USA in the pipeline for 2015. A third UK tour is also being planned for spring 2015.
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    Scattered
    (Motionhouse Dance Theatre, 2009-10) Smith, Sophy; Dickinson, Tim
    Scattered has been touring since October 2009 and has taken audiences by storm, with sell out shows and standing ovations in venues all around the world. Scattered has toured twice to the USA and in summer 2014 will tour to Japan and Hong Kong. It continues to be available for international touring with tours of Europe planned until 2016. Performed on a giant curved floor like a snowboard half-pipe, Scattered explores our relationship with water in an ingenious collaboration with Logela Multimedia from the Basque region of Spain. The mix of magical film and daring dancing creates an extraordinary world in which the dancers move seamlessly in, on and through images of cascading waterfalls, rainstorms, arctic wastes and desert landscapes. Scattered continues to feature in the Motionhouse repertoire and has recently completed it's second hugely succesful international tour of America. This tour will be followed by dates in Tokyo and Hong Kong in summer 2014 and by popular demand, further European touring in autumn 2014.
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    The Voyage
    (2012-06) Smith, Sophy; Dickinson, Tim
    The Voyage was a major outdoor spectacle performance, which formed part of the official launch of the nationwide London 2012 Festival celebrating the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Voyage was an epic tale telling the dramatic story of passengers on board the HMS Olympia, a life-size cruise liner built against the prestigious backdrop of Birmingham's Town Hall. Professional dancers and aerialists joined forces with a huge gospel choir, brass band and over 140 community performers from the Quest participatory project to transform Victoria Square and tell the story of The Voyage. The immersive multimedia performance saw the action unfold onboard the ship and amongst the audience on the ground. Phenomenal projections transformed the Town Hall and the city's skyline became a dream of undiscovered worlds. The Olympics attracts individuals and groups from across the globe, crossing oceans on a quest for adventure, pursuing their dreams. The Voyage explored what this means for us all: departures and arrivals, hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments. The Voyage was a stunning combination of physical dance, gravity-defying acrobatics and dynamic imagery, which surprised, captivated, and enthralled audiences of nearly 15,000 people from Friday 22 – Sunday 24 June 2012. Setting sail nightly from Victoria Square at 10.00pm the large scale spectacle transported audiences back to the heyday of cruise liner travel between the 1940s and 1960s, and took in the optimism of the era and the mystery of journeying to an unknown land. Created by Motionhouse in conjunction with Australian physical theatre company, Legs On The Wall, and produced by Birmingham Hippodrome The Voyage was our most ambitious production to date. The outdoor physical spectacle was brought to life by extraordinary film projections courtesy of Logela Multimedia, a stunning life-size cruise liner set designed by Simon Dormon, beautiful period costumes by Sofie Layton and specially composed musical arrangements from Sophy Smith and Tim Dickinson,which were performed live by a Gospel choir and brass band from Birmingham's Town Hall and Conservatoire.