Faye Tan & Cecile Johnson Soliz
Infinity Duet
Two people deal with weight and time in this warm, soulful duet that weaves together drawing, sculpture, dance and sound in a unique collaboration.
NDCWales Presents
Shorts | Byrion
Production
“The sculpture can't help but yield to gravity, and neither can their bodies. Two people deal with time and weight in this brief reverie.”
Two people deal with weight and time in this warm, soulful duet that weaves together drawing, sculpture, dance and sound in a unique collaboration.
Choreographer Faye Tan and artist Cecile Johnson-Soliz created this work together with the dancers. Featuring music composed by Richard McReynolds, costumes printed with Cecile’s drawings and a large swinging sculpture which takes centre stage, this work sweeps you along with it.
Length: 10 minutes
Dancers: 2
First performed: 30 February 2025, Dance House, Cardiff
Artist: Cecile Johnson Soliz
Composer: Richard McReynolds
Costume Designer: Cecile Johnson Soliz
Lighting Designer: Will Lewis
Costume Maker: Elizabeth Catherine Chiu
Dancers And Co-Choreographers: Charlotte Aspin, Alys Davies, Olivia Foskett, Sarah ‘Riz’ Golden, Jill Goh, Edward Myhill
Rehearsal Director: Victoria Roberts
With Thanks To: Luca Chiodini, Dan Clark, Elena Grace, Sam Gilovitz, Niamh Keeling, Mario Manara, Matthew William Robinson, Ds Smith, Will Barrett Soliz, Rachel Verner
Faye Tan
Faye is a dancer and choreographer from Singapore and is currently a full-time dancer with National Dance Company Wales. Her choreographic practice is nourished by her extensive experiences of working with contemporary dance choreographers from all over the world and her explorations of different dance styles, cultures, methods and techniques. Her works often embrace the sometimes-overwhelming complexities of human emotion, and are often odes to human experiences of the sublime.
Frequently collaborating with musicians and visual artists, she has created works for various settings and contexts with NDCWales, VERVE (UK), Frontier Danceland (Singapore), the Centre for Advanced Training (UK) and School of The Arts Singapore.
Cecile Johnson Soliz is a second generation American of Bolivian heritage who grew up in California, Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil, Ghana and Italy before arriving to the U.K. to study fine art at Cardiff College of Art and Goldsmiths. Following 20 years in London, the Henry Moore Fellowship in Sculpture brought her to Cardiff in 1995 where she lives and works. Cecile has exhibited across 35 years in the U.K. and abroad in both solo and group exhibitions, winning the Gold Medal in Fine Art at the National Eisteddfod, Wales in 2017. She is currently collaborating with the National Dance Company of Wales.
For full Bio and C.V. see:
@cecilejohnsonsoliz
Richard McReynolds is a Northern-Irish composer, multi-media artist and creative producer based in Cardiff. He works in the intersection between media, exploring new connections between performance, sound and visuals. His work encompasses sound works, performance-art, generative images, hyper instruments and installations.
