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Meet the dancers: Joshua Attwood, Niamh Keeling, Ed Myhill, Aisha Naamani, Faye Tan, Marine Tournet and Tim Volleman

Professional Placement Students: Angharad Jones-Young, Mika George Evans

"For Afterimage we developed a concept that presents the audience with different perspectives of the actions on stage. The mirror constantly reveals, hides and multiplies the movement of the dancers... It is a process of constant experimentation, trial and error where all elements — dancers, set, lights and sound — need to be perfectly synchronized" Fernando Melo

Did You Know? More on Pepper’s Ghost.

Pepper’s Ghost is an illusion technique used in many places from the theatre to theme parks. The effect gained its name from English scientist John Henry Pepper, who popularized the effect in a demonstration in 1862. It was then used in carnival sideshows and to conjure “Ghosts” everywhere from séances to Disneyland. More recently the effect is used for teleprompters and to bring stars such as Michael Jackson back to life on stage.

Watch an interview with Fernando Melo below

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“Moving is everywhere, forever celebrates feelings of freedom, timelessness, catharsis, connection, acceptance, peace and all the other indescribable feelings that come from being in the moment when we dance and move. I wanted to invite audiences to experience a reality where this act of moving never stops, and this piece proposes that this reality can exist anywhere, at any time. The beauty of ‘forever’ means that there is no beginning to this experience, nor will it ever arrive to an end.

This piece very much feels like a huge collaboration with many people, with its earliest stages of research beginning in 2018. I would like to give additional thanks to Richard Chappell, Charlotte Pook, Ben Wright, Perla Ponce, Adam Cobley and Chew Shaw En as well as the dancers of NDCWales for their creative input into this piece at various stages in different ways, and to Takako Hasegawa whose words of wisdom were serendipitously weaved into Larch's music for this piece."

Faye Tan

Moving is everywhere, forever was first performed outdoors in summer 2021: watch our video interview below with Faye to hear about creating a dance for outdoor spaces

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