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.
“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.
"Infinity Duet reflects the childlike joy of creating art"
Buzz Magazine
"Gleeful risk-taking"
Buzz Magazine
" [an] abstracted but subtly interpersonal encounter"
Matthew Gough; Get The Chance
"A beautiful, beautiful show"
Audience Member
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.




The Making of Infinity Duet
Infinity Duet is a cross-artform collaboration in which sculpture and sound hold equal space on stage.
Cardiff based artist Cecile Johnson Soliz and National Dance Company Wales dancer Faye Tan were matched as collaborators in 2022 during NDCWales’ research and development project ‘Laboratori’ that match-made visual artists with dancers. In working together Faye and Cecile found many commonalities, discovering a shared interest in shaping gestures.
“Sculpture has so many similarities to dance, and one of the things we’ve been interested in are time, space and movement, all of those things come into sculpture and it’s one of the reasons wanted to work with Faye on this collaboration” said Cecile
“What I love about Cecile’s work is that it deals quite explicitly with weight and time and tension, and the potential for something to happen, even though the sculpture itself might be still in that moment” continues Faye.
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The swinging sculpture is made of newsprint paper, sourced from the end of rolls unable to be used in the printing process. Cecile then paints, twists and sculpts the paper.
Cecile also designed the costumes for the work – which are printed with her own drawings of intricate and precise criss-crossing lines.
The music, by Richard McReynolds features snippets recorded from Cecile’s art studio where the sculptures were made – sounds of ripping, tearing and scrunching paper are incorporated into the warm soundtrack.
"Working with Cecille and Faye has provided me with a way to reflect on my practice with different lenses…I’ve really been inspired to let the sounds I record guide the process rather than force them into a shape.” Says Richard.
To learn more about the process of making Infinity Duet, you can watch an interview below with all three artists.



