A visual spectacle: Tom Dale Dance Company in Surge & Sub:version

Jemima Brown in Surge

Dan Baines in Sub:version

Tom Dale Dance Company in Sub:version

By Graham Watts, 24 March 2023

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“Surge was all the more excellent due to the astonishing light show”

Reviewed at The Place, London on 21 March 2023

Sub:version (Tom Dale)

Surge (Tom Dale)

Tom Dale Company

Andrew Ellis, Lighting Designer

Jemima Brown, Dancer

Dan Baines, Dancer

Rose Ellen Lewis, Dancer

Tom O'Gorman, Dancer

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.