Heather Eddington’s State of Flux DanceFilm Company presents A Blank Canvas, a piece that blends the mediums of dance, film, animation and sculpture into a dancefilm installation. In 2009 DanceDigital have worked with Heather to bring this installation to Southend, Chelmsford and St. Albans. In 2010 we will be working with Heather again to present the piece at DanceDigital’s Emerge artist platform in St. Albans. Heather will also be joining DanceDigital’s Dance on Film panel at the Forward Motion screeningings in early 2010 at the Thameside Theatre, Grays.

Through the dancers recounting their individual and vivid journeys, Heather has brought to life their personal stories using colour, shape, texture and sound the result being sometimes humorous, at times strikingly truthful but always intriguingly beautiful. The finished work is a short dance-film animation in which the two characters in this story move through their animated world interacting with the drawn objects and with each other.

I See U

I See U takes over three spaces at The Hat Factory, Luton, transforming them into personal worlds linked through video and sound. Through incredible choreography, technology and the transformation of space, IP Tanz provides an opportunity to see how an online existence is changing our reality.

The Rain Parade

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’.

Waves is a new piece made especially for DanceDigital. The piece will be visiting town centres in Chelmsford, Colchester and Southend. After dark, the space will become populated by hundreds of small objects, drawn on the pavement with light, that behave according to a simplified version of the laws of magnetism.  When people enter the space they become active participants, as magnetic bodies themselves, disturbing and redistributing the flow of energy.

KMA is a collaboration between UK media artists Kit Monkman and Tom Wexler. Their work is primarily focussed on illuminating, encouraging, and developing interactions between people in public spaces using projected light. Their massive engagements in social play have dramatically transformed famous iconic spaces, such as London’s Trafalgar Square, the Royal Opera House and Dublin Docklands.

With specially commissioned music from maverick composer/ producer Shackleton and drum & bass outfit Sion, ROAM incorporates the work of poet Rick Holland to present a captivating journey that takes as its starting point the human need for exploration and experience.

ROAM is created with support from Laban Theatre, DanceXchange, DanceDigital, The Garrick Charitable Trust and Arts Council England.