Spring 2026
Scatter Pattern
The whole company, moving through every plane, arriving nowhere in particular.
- First performed
- 2,024
- Running time
- 27 minutes
- Dancers
- 9
- Music
- Bit-crushed field recordings from the Sheffield Supertram
- Travelled
- 15.0 radii
Ten reaches through all three planes in twenty-seven minutes, at a speed nobody in the company enjoyed learning. It is the piece we are asked for most often and the one that takes the longest to get back into the body.
A note on the tram
The score is built from recordings made on the Supertram between Cathedral and Shalesmoor over three weeks. Nothing in it is synthesised.
The phrase, written down
10 reaches · 40% of them in the wheel plane · 15.0 radii travelled
- Right forward Table plane start
- Back deep Wheel plane 1.70
- High left Door plane 1.70
- Deep right Door plane 2.00
- Forward high Wheel plane 1.70
- Left back Table plane 1.70
- High right Door plane 1.70
- Forward deep Wheel plane 1.70
- Left forward Table plane 1.05
- Back high Wheel plane 1.70
The last column is the straight-line distance from the previous reach, in kinesphere radii. Two is right across the body; the shortest possible step between two of the twelve is 1.05.
How it is danced
Basic Effort Action
Flick
Light, sudden, indirect. Getting something off a sleeve.
- Weight
- How much the body commits its mass. Not how hard the dancer works.
- Time
- The attitude to time, not the tempo. A slow piece can be full of suddenness.
- Space
- Whether attention goes everywhere at once or to one place.
- Flow
- How readily the movement could be stopped half way. Not part of the action names.
