JONNY DANCIGER
director-designer
Best
Family
Show
Winner
Edfringe '23
Best
Design
Nominee
Offies '24
Escapade Productions, UK Tour 2019
Director - Madeleine Perham
Ruby Redfort
British Council School (Madrid), OSO Arts Centre (London), 2019
Wings
Oxford Playhouse, January 2017
Company - Drame Fatale
Director - Charlotte Vickers
Producer - Lucy Hayes
This visually striking and ambitious production situated Marlowe's celebrated play in the soviet union. I worked closely with the director to create cold atmosphere in which everything was a potential threat.
I combined three musical palettes; orchestral strings and brass injected cinematic high-stakes whilst evoking traditional royal music, heavily automated synth lines created a shifting sense of unease with promises of espionage, and bell-based drone scapes became increasingly prominent with Edward's eroding sanity.
Edward II
Keble O'Reilly, January 2017
Company - Quicksandance
Choreographer - Emmy Everest-Philips
Producer - Chris Burr
For this dance show themed on light, the music, lighting and dance were intricately linked. Music was spatialized in '12.3 surround': an octophonic cube array, four specials, and a sub for each of the three seating areas. Whilst most of the music was predetermined and augmented by surround sound, I was asked to compose the music for 'Glitch' - a duet in which a couple become increasingly separated by the technological world. The story and visuals were integral to the music; an initially spacious and analogue piano theme becomes swallowed by abrasive electronics.