Commissions

Waves
KMA
Waves was a new commission especially for DanceDigital.

Waves was a free event. In Chelmsford the installation was outside the Essex County Council main building on Market Road. In Southend the piece was installed on the High Street, outside the Essex University building.

After dark, the space became populated by hundreds of small objects, projected on the pavement from above, that behaved according to a simplified version of the laws of magnetism.

When the space was empty of visitors, these objects generated mesmerising patterns as they flowed around each other, drawn by magnetic forces within their world. The strength of these magnetic forces changed throughout the piece, revealing new flows and interactions. When people enter the space they became active participants, as magnetic bodies themselves, disturbing and redistributing the flow of energy.

KMA’s engagements in social play have dramatically transformed famous iconic spaces, such as London’s Trafalgar Square, the Royal Opera House and Dublin Docklands. KMA’s work has consistently received extensive national and international coverage.

Video footage of the installation in Southend and Chelmsford can now be found online.

The Rain Parade
Lost Dog
Lost Dog are a dance company that likes to use words, dance and theatrics mixed together to produce stories that we can all identify with. They have been described as, 'mesmerising to watch', 'a bright new voice in dance theatre' and 'simultaneously raw and slick'.

This new piece of work is about the things that get left behind. What if instead of objects and words two people somehow got left behind to tell us what it was really like? A show about someone else's future and the underside of our present.

Lost Dog will utilise technological elements in thei live work and there will also be a live web stream and Second Life version of ther performance.

This new work has been commissioned by DanceDigital and the University of Hertfordshire.

The Second Life version of Lost Dog's recent commission for DanceDigital, The Rain Parade can now be found online together with the build blog for the project.