Season One Bonachela / Nankivell / Lane 50th Anniversary Program Bonachela / Obarzanek Welcome 1– 9 Nov New Breed 2019 28 Nov – 7 Dec

It is with great pleasure I welcome you to This year, Neon Aether will transport Season One of Dance Company’s audiences to an ethereal dystopian world. 50th Anniversary program. A triple bill Melanie Lane first brought WOOF to Sydney – featuring ground-breaking Australian Dance Company’s New Breed in 2017 with choreographers Gabrielle Nankivell and the support of The Balnaves Foundation. Melanie Lane as well as a premiere of my Leaving a lasting impression on the audience, work, Cinco. I’m so excited to see the work return to the stage once again. Over the last 50 years it has been the Subscribe Now & Save 15% cumulative effort of more than 250 dancers, I know these works will take you on an sydneydancecompany.com #SDCTurns50 dozens of composers, designers and artistic unforgettable journey, and I look forward to leadership who have made Sydney Dance celebrating Sydney Dance Company’s past, Company what it is today. In celebration of present and future with you throughout the this monumental year, it was really important year. to me to commission a range of Australian voices – a homage to the extraordinary investment that Sydney Dance Company has made to the Australian cultural landscape Rafael Bonachela over five decades. This season, we’re Artistic Director delighted to welcome back Gabrielle and Melanie to the Sydney Dance Company family with their works Neon Aether and WOOF.

Gabrielle Nankivell has worked with Sydney Dance Company over several years, most recently with Wildebeest which was nominated for a 2017 Helpmann Award.

3 #SDCTurns50 Bonachela / Nankivell / Lane Neon Aether 25 mins 26 March –13 April Gabrielle Nankivell With Thanks Roslyn Packer Theatre Walsh Bay Cinco 26 mins Rafael Bonachela

Interval 20 mins

WOOF 26 mins Melanie Lane

Dates National Tour 16 May –17 August

VIC 16 May Warragul 18 May Frankston 22 May Bendigo 25 May Mildura In celebrating our 50th Anniversary this year, Welcoming in the new year, we’re delighted we take the opportunity to reflect on the last to present Bonachela / Nankivell / Lane, NT 27 July Darwin five decades. Over the years Sydney Dance featuring premieres from Rafael Bonachela 31 July Alice Springs Company has commissioned 38 new musical and Gabrielle Nankivell as well as an exciting scores, countless costumes and more than return of Melanie Lane’s 2017 New Breed SA 3 August Whyalla 250 new choreographic works from 90 work. Premiering first in Sydney, the season 8 –10 August Australian and international choreographers. will then tour nationally in , We’ve danced main stage and school , Darwin, Adelaide and regional TAS 15 –17 August Hobart matinee performances everywhere from New centres across VIC, NT, SA and TAS. York’s Joyce Theatre to the Rockdale Town The season will also be accompanied by Hall and . All of these behind the scenes opportunities, school incredible achievements, be it on the stage, matinee performances for both primary and in a school hall or online with our digital secondary students and a rich workshop Behind the Scenes Events Artist Talk: Behind the Curtain learning resources, have been made possible program designed to allow young people Wednesday 20 March 6:30 – 7:30pm by the hard work of the team at Sydney to participate in creative learning. Dance Company and the generous support Company Class Viewing of our partners. What a perfect way to kick off our 50th Saturday 6 April 12:00 –1:00pm anniversary year, with three extraordinary I would like to thank the Australian works celebrating Australian voices. Government for its support delivered through the Council for the Arts, and the NSW Government for the support it delivers through Create NSW. I would Anne Dunn also like to thank our corporate and private Executive Director supporters. We are extremely grateful for your support and commitment to the future of contemporary dance.

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Choreography Gabrielle Nankivell

Music Luke Smiles

Costume Harriet Oxley

Lighting Design Damien Cooper

Neon Aether is supported by Sydney Dance Company’s Commissioning Fund and the Nelson Meers Foundation.

7 #SDCTurns50 Gabrielle Nankivell Luke Smiles, Harriet Oxley, Damien Cooper

Gabrielle Nankivell, Choreographer Biography Luke Smiles, Composer vs. machine led us to the idea of belts, cords, We wanted to be the air, omnipresent, Gabrielle Nankivell is an Australian performer A sentimental longing for a vision of the future cables, and harnesses. glowing bright like neon cut mist and director with formative ties to Europe. seems like an impossible conundrum best Between the clouds and the edge Informed by a somewhat nomadic existence, articulated in the genre of science fiction. So The question was how to incorporate these of our atmosphere her work is concerned with notions of too is the term ‘Space Age’ which also looks to elements, while allowing the garments to The tangible ethereal impermanence. the future but is based on vintage technology. function for the dancers. I wanted to create a The resonant wonder of future nostalgia Although I was born too late to witness the sense of lightness and otherworldliness, and Gabrielle’s work has been widely presented moon landing live on TV, space exploration has to visually place the dancers into a unique, Neon Aether is an ode to the burning across Australia, Europe and Asia. Recent been an adventure of mammoth proportions specific world. Colour is an integral part of my intangibles that fuel our imagination. The commissions include Carbon Field with that has forever inspired me. process and we created a colour palette to territory of sensations that seem to be in and 40 dancers of the Queensland Ballet and represent the horizon, the atmosphere, and of the air – the ethereal, the un-pin-down- Expressions Dance Company, SURGE for Science fiction cinema of the 1980s was a the planets. able, the just beyond our grasp. This is the Dancenorth as part of Festival 2018 for the strong influence when considering the score material of madness, of stars and magnetism, Commonwealth Games, Wildebeest for Sydney with its neon nostalgic synthesizer sound of Damian Cooper, Lighting Designer of space exploration and love. This is a Dance Company, nominated for a 2017 the future. Another fascination was found in What lighting designer would not want to light precarious fascination with desire and Helpmann Award for ‘Best Choreography in a the informal definition of aether described a world of science fiction. the infinite unknown. Ballet, Dance or Physical Theatre Production’ as ‘air regarded as a medium for radio’. The and Order of Things and Focus for Frontier cacophony of radio waves travelling through “In the presence of total darkness, the mind Neon Aether started out as the air before me Danceland Singapore. the aether was considered as a metaphor for finds it absolutely necessary to create light.” into which I stretched my fingers, searching for humanity, of communication that can span Isaac Asimov a way to articulate things I felt but could not As a dancer Gabrielle honed her dance the importance of words spoken from the describe. Somewhere between catching one’s career in Europe performing for Belgian surface of the moon to the mundane trivia “Any sufficiently advanced technology is breath and the absence of a horizon between artists Alexander Baervoets and Ultima Vez/ of advertising that all seems to inhabit a indistinguishable from magic.” water and sky, a rising sensation, the impression Wim Vandekeybus and collaborating with Jurij substance that doesn’t actually exist. My work Arthur C. Clarke of rushing forward through feelings steeped Konjar (Slovenia), Raul Maia (Portugal) and is strongly influenced by techniques normally in the past. This seemed to me a kind of Thomas Steyaert (Belgium). She is currently aligned with cinema sound and Neon Aether “To attempt seeing truth without knowing future nostalgia — like heartbeats in glass the Guest Artist with presented a great opportunity for me to draw falsehood. It is the attempt to see the light jars or fireworks in outer space — like being for The Beginning of Nature. on these interests. without knowing darkness. It cannot be.” compelled to move inextricably into the future Frank Herbert with a Polaroid from 1974 strapped to your Gabrielle has been awarded several coveted Harriet Oxley, Costume Designer chest. Just like science fiction and space time, international choreographic residencies and is To create the design for Neon Aether I Asimov, Clarke, Herbert, here we come! this felt like a projection of possibility – like the recipient of the Marten Bequest Travelling responded to Gabrielle and Luke’s intention to a rocket ascending while humanity holds its Scholarship, two Impulstanz Vienna Dance- craft an expansive, immersive environment in breath. WEB Scholarships, the inaugural Keith Bain which I think they have succeeded beautifully. Choreographic Travel Fellowship and the 2015 At the start of the process, some of the Tanja Liedtke Fellowship. She was the 2017 influences were 1980s science fiction films, Artist in Residence (Contemporary Dance) at the exploration of space or deep sea, and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. human vs. non-human. I turned to the idea of boilersuits, and then the concept of human

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Choreography Rafael Bonachela

Music Alberto Ginastera, String Quartet No.2 Op.26 Recording by EnsŌ String Quartet

Costume Bianca Spender

Lighting Design Damien Cooper

String Quartet No.2 Op.26 by Alberto Ginastera is used Cinco is supported by Sydney Dance by permission of Hal Leonard Australia, exclusive agents for Company’s Commissioning Fund. Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd of London.

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Note Biography I have for a long time, enjoyed playing with My approach to the work has been driven Rafael Bonachela has been the Artistic Bonachela’s internationally recognised talent numbers, and Alberto Ginastera’s String by a mathematical approach which has Director and resident choreographer for has seen him work not only with contemporary Quartet No.2 Op.26, composed as it is in five been wholly softened and enriched by my Sydney Dance Company since 2009. In that dance at the highest level but also with artists parts, presented a ready name and approach collaborators. It is a great pleasure to have time, he has created 14 works for Sydney from popular culture, such as Kylie Minogue, for my new work in this 50th anniversary year worked once more with Damien Cooper and Dance Company’s repertoire. In addition, Tina Turner, Sarah Blasko and Katie Noonan for Sydney Dance Company and my 10th the richness he brings to the lighting design. he has remounted outstanding repertoire as well as leading fashion designers Dion Lee anniversary as Artistic Director. from Bonachela Dance Company and and Toni Maticevski. Such collaborative efforts The opportunity to collaborate with fashion commissioned Australian and international reflect the inspiration he finds and utilises from Using 5 dancers, I have explored the duality designer Bianca Spender has been a dream choreographers to create original works for culture today. and opposition that I hear in the texture of the for me. I have adored watching her bring her the Company. music. At times melancholic and pensive and defined sensibility to the stage as she has In February 2013, Bonachela was honoured at others insistent and urgent, the movement clothed the dancers in twists and falls to Bonachela is a multi-award winning choreo- with an Officer’s Cross of the Order of Civil is paced to the emotive states I encountered match their own physical grace. grapher both nationally & internationally. Merit by His Majesty the King of Spain. as I listened over and over in the months prior In 2015, Frame of Mind won the Helpmann to making this work. My sincere thanks go to the whole team who Awards for ‘Best Choreography’ and ‘Best Bonachela began his early dance training in have worked on Cinco and most especially Dance Work’. His work 2 One Another won the Barcelona and was a member of the legendary Much of the movement was devised within the dancers. ‘Best Ensemble’ Award in the 2012 Green Room Rambert Dance Company, both as a dancer the imaginary constraints of a pentagon with Awards and the 2013 Australian Dance Award and Associate Choreographer. He established the dancers each operating within their own for ‘Outstanding Achievement in Choreog- the Bonachela Dance Company (BDC) in 2006 five-sided world and these worlds overlapping raphy’ and ‘Outstanding Performance by a and was a resident artist at the Southbank and intersecting. The repetition and patterns Company’. Centre in London. As a choreographer, he in the music gave me the opportunity to bring has been commissioned to make works for harmony with unison group sections. In 2012 Bonachela curated the international Candoco, George Piper Dances, ITDANSA, festival Spring Dance for Sydney Opera House. Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Dresden In 2013 he developed the choreography for Frankfurt Dance Company and Dance Works artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadil- Rotterdam amongst others. la’s work Revolving Door, which was part of the acclaimed live performance art exhibition 13 Follow Rafael on Instagram Rooms. For 2015, he collabo- @rafaelbonachela rated with artist Mira Calix to choreograph for the Inside There Falls installation at Carriage- works. More recently, he created Nude Live, a dance installation amongst the extraordinary collection of artworks that made up the exhibi- tion ‘Nude-Art from the Tate Collection’.

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Bianca Spender, Costume Designer Damien Cooper, Lighting Designer When I started thinking about the costumes Music. Dancers. Choreography. Clothes. Lights. for Cinco, there were two pinpoints for me: So simple but together so much tension. This designing movement and design inspired is going to be wild. from music. From my first listen of Alberto Ginastera’s String Quartet No.2 Op.26, I was The lighting will add an extra level to the transformed into a world of movement, dance choreography of the space. Five lights that will and an imposing intensity of softness and interrogate five dancers. They will be in your hardness that was twisted yet beautiful at face, they will hide, they will focus, and they the same time. So, I started trying to curate will push the rhythmic structure of Ginastera’s pieces and ideas which emulated that exact music. Colour will be used sparingly, allowing sense of freedom and intensity. Bianca Spender’s clothes to dominate the palette. We cut all the garments into pieces, which fulfilled the elements of twisted beauty, and Enjoy. spliced the fabrics to give a stronger indefin- able line. I wanted the structure to represent those different worlds of movement in both the music and in the dancers’ form. The music alternates between soft and hard tones as well as a sequence of long and short notes. I interpreted this transition as dusk to dawn and began to look at corresponding colours. I was also inspired by the translation of the title, five, which you can see in the colours of the costumes – light and dark mushroom grey, dark and dusty blue and then a golden haze.

I also wanted the continuous fluctuation of the music to be represented in my design. In order to accentuate the dancers’ bodies in every movement, I worked with the finest quality silk chiffon to make use of its romantic light lustre. When worn by the dancers under the lights, the audience will be able to see every gesture made and the air floating through the pieces. When the dancers jump, the pieces jump themselves.

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Choreography Melanie Lane

Music Clark

Costume Aleisa Jelbart

Lighting Design Verity Hampson

WOOF was originally commissioned for Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed season in 2017, which was made possible by The Balnaves Foundation.

17 #SDCTurns50 Melanie Lane Clark, Aleisa Jelbart, Verity Hampson

Melanie Lane, Choreographer Melanie choreographed the 2014/15 and 2017 Clark, Composer Verity Hampson, Lighting Designer WOOF generates variations of collective live shows for UK electronic musician Clark The composition for WOOF draws from both Melanie’s original conception of WOOF was actions performed by a group. In an imagined (Warp records), performing internationally classical and electronic textures, a musical an exploration of how humans communicate future, stealing from renaissance imagery, pop including – Field Day London, Moma PS1 New triptych that begins with a dissonant acoustic and respond to each other in groups of varying culture and science fiction, a re-invention of York, Villette Sonique Paris, Funkhaus Berlin cello piece that deconstructs and morphs sizes. Inspiration ranged from Renaissance community takes place. and Sonar Festivals in Barcelona/Istanbul. Her seamlessly into a seductive digital realm. paintings to infantry deployment. Melanie has collaborative work extends to artists such as a very collaborative process and was working Like the contagion of crowd mentality, a musician Clark, filmmaker Amos Gebhardt and Alesia Jelbart, Costume Designer in the hothouse that is New Breed with the possession of spontaneity, ferocity, absurdity visual artists Martin Boettger, Ash Keating and The design process for WOOF began in Sep- company dancers who are quite diverse in and also the ecstasy, romance and heroism Bridie Lunney. tember 2017 in preparation for its New Breed their life experience and training. The result of primitive beings manifests. The group mind premiere. At the time, Melanie described her was something that, while speaking to the slips between the rational and the emotional, In Australia, Melanie joined Antony Hamilton vision for the costumes as earthy and futuristic. human experience in the individual movements excited and hypnotic. for over five of his projects. In 2015 she was My next step was to figure out the stylistic had an overall almost extra-terrestrial quality. appointed resident director at Lucy Guerin language found in the world of WOOF. What In dialogue with Clark’s bold musical score, Inc. in Melbourne and performed in Lucy would everyday clothes look like? It’s a fun So the task assigned to me as the lighting WOOF relentlessly forges a duality of instability Guerin’s Split for which she was nominated brief for a costume designer, imagining what designer became how to convey those two and empowerment, harnessing the fantasy of ‘Outstanding Female Dancer’ for both the the future could be like. narratives. The answer was simplicity. Sim- a post-human collective spirit. Helpmann and Green Room Awards. plicity in angle and colour. This approach of A year and a half later, the bones of the simplicity also works to compliment a style of Biography In 2016, Melanie was commissioned by Chunky WOOF costume design have remained mostly movement which I think is complex and de- Melanie is a choreographer and performer Move to create a new work Re-make, and in the same. Both Melanie and I were keen to tailed but flows from movement to movement based in Melbourne. As a performer she has 2017 she was commissioned by Sydney Dance play with different textures and how the fabrics seamlessly. When creating the lighting design, worked with various companies and artists Company to create WOOF as part of their New behave under lights so that has been the most Melanie and I explored how the human eye such as Kobalt Works | Arco Renz (B), Club Breed season. Melanie was choreographer for significant development since 2017. It has been works and deliberately mirrored that onstage. Guy and Roni (N), Tino Seghal (G), Antony the English National Opera’s 2018 production a joy to be part of Melanie’s creative team Figures emerging out of darkness, very subtle Hamilton (AUS), Lucy Guerin (AUS) and of Salome, directed by Adena Jacobs. Her for WOOF. I’ve loved being able to continue colour changes, or what is missed when you Chunky Move (AUS), performing world-wide. work Personal Effigies was the recipient of the refining the work. blink. It evolved from how the eye works into 2018 Keir Choreographic Award, and her work how people see and observe. Particularly how As a choreographer, Melanie has established Wonderwomen received the 2017 Leipziger we, as people, observe the other. a repertory of independent works performing in Bewegungskunstpreis. international festivals and theatres such as Tanz If I had one piece of advice for an audience im August, Uzes Danse Festival, Arts House member watching WOOF it would be relax and Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, Indonesian absorb. Don’t analyse. Leave your thoughts for Dance Festival, O Espaco do Tempo, Festival later. Antigel, Dance Massive, Carriageworks, Chunky Move and HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin among others. She has been artist in residence at Dock 11 Berlin, Arts House Melbourne and Schauspielhaus Leipzig.

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Chris Aubrey Dancers

Biography Juliette Barton Ariella Casu Originally from Sydney, Chris graduated Chris was a part of the 2013 collaboration with Perth born Juliette trained at the Graduate Born in America, living in Italy, Ariella began from Adelaide Centre for the Arts in 2007 Kaldor Public Art Projects for the contemporary College of Dance with Terri Charlesworth, and dancing in her mother’s dance school at with a Bachelor of Dance Performance and art exhibition 13 Rooms where Sydney Dance went on to graduate from WAAPA. Juliette has four years old. At 16, Ariella was awarded completed his Cert III and IV in Fitness in Company featured in Allora and Calzadilla’s performed with Diversions Dance Company in a scholarship to train under Mauro Astolfi at 2008. He joined Australian Dance Theatre and Revolving Door. He also toured North America, Wales and Russell Maliphant Company. She the I.A.L.S. in Rome. Ariella is highly regarded worked under the direction of Garry Stewart South America and Russia with the acclaimed joined Sydney Dance Company in 2009. Juliette for her skills in modern dance, Horton, tap between 2007 and 2011. 2 One Another, winner of the ‘Best Ensemble’ made her choreographic debut with her solo (placed fifth internationally in the IDO World Awards in the 2012 Green Room Awards piece, Scrutineer, for Sydney Dance Company Tap Championship), contemporary dance Chris joined Sydney Dance Company as a and the 2013 for and Carriageworks’ New Breed season in 2014. and hip hop. At 19, Ariella performed at the dancer in 2012 and has performed in the ‘Outstanding Achievement in Choreography’ Juliette was named in the 2012 Dance Australia Biennale di Venezia with Arsenale Della Danza. world premiere of Rafael Bonachela’s 2 One and ‘Outstanding Performance by a Company’. Critics’ Survey ‘Most Outstanding Dancer’. She Ariella joined Sydney Dance Company in Another (2012 – 2014) and Project Rameau was also nominated for a 2014 Green Room 2018 embarking on the European Tour in April (2012); Larissa McGowan’s Fanatic as part Chris was appointed Rehearsal Director of Award for ‘Best Female Dancer’ in Interplay. before returning to Australia for the ab [intra] of Contemporary Women (2012); De Novo Sydney Dance Company in 2015. Juliette was nominated for a Helpmann Award National Tour. (2013), featuring works by Rafael Bonachela in 2016 in the category of ‘Best Female Dancer’ (Emergence), Larissa McGowan (Fanatic) and for Rafael Bonachela’s Lux Tenebris. Davide Di Giovanni Alexander Ekman (Cacti) and Interplay (2014) (On maternity leave.) Davide started his dance life in Teatro Alla featuring choreography by Rafael Bonachela Scala in Milan when he was 15. He then (2 in D Minor), Jacopo Godani (Raw Models) Alex Borg (Trainee) received a full scholarship to study at the and Gideon Obarzanek (L’Chaim!). He was Alex was born in Sydney and began dancing renowned ballet school Balletto Di Toscana, named in the 2012 Dance Australia Critics’ at the Joanne Williamson Dance Academy at joining the junior company at 17. After three Survey for ‘Most Outstanding Dancer’ for his the age of seven. He attended the Newtown years with the Balletto Di Toscano, Davide performance in The Land of Yes & The Land High School of the Performing Arts and was joined Balletto dell’Esperia in Turin, where of No. a member of both Classical Ballet and Contem- he met Jacopo Godani, Gustavo Ramirez porary Companies for 6 years. In 2015 Alex was Sansano and William Forsythe. He then moved awarded the Marcus Santos Memorial Award for to Munich at 23, where he had the chance to Outstanding Male Dancer and upon graduation work for the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in 2016 received the Outstanding Contribution with choreographers Marco Göcke, Alexander to Dance award. In 2017 Alex commenced full Ekman and Jø Strømgren. He danced One Flat time study with the Sydney Dance Company Thing, reproduced by William Forsythe, and Pre-Professional Year and in 2018 returned for worked on new creations with Christopher a further year of training. During 2018 he was Roman, Nanin Linning, Georg Reischl and fortunate to spend 6 weeks in the studio with Jacopo Godani. Davide joined Sydney Dance the Company learning various roles in Rafael Company in 2017. Bonachela’s ab [intra]. At the end of 2018 Alex was offered a Trainee contract with the Sydney Dance Company.

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Holly Doyle Dean Elliott Jacopo Grabar Luke Hayward NSW born Holly Doyle trained under the Dean began his dance training in Auckland, Italian born Jacopo trained at Ateneo della Luke was born in Alice Springs, Australia and direction of Gilli O’Connell, Tibor Horvath, New Zealand at age 17. In 2018 he graduated Danza in Siena. In 2012 he joined Balletto received his early training at Central Dance Matthew Shilling, Anton Bogdanovych, Matt from Ev and Bow Full-time Dance Training Cen- di Siena as an apprentice and graduated to Theatre and Alice Springs Gymnastics before Trent, Kristina Chan and various others. She tre in Sydney. During his time there, he worked full time dancer in season 2013 –14. Jacopo moving to Sydney, Australia to train at Tanya studied dance at Newtown High School of with many Australian dance professionals and received his American Ballet Theatre NTC Pearson’s Classical Coaching Academy and the Performing Arts, receiving extensive performed in works by choreographers Larissa diploma in 2013, before joining Baltic Dance Studio Tibor. He then furthered his studies in contemporary and classical training. Holly McGowan, Anton, Robbie Curtis and Adam Theatre (Gdańsk, Poland) the following Germany by completing a Bachelor of Dance joined the Company in 2013 for De Novo and Blanch. In 2018, Dean appeared as a special year where he worked with choreographers at Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden. has since performed in 2 One Another, Project guest artist in the Sydney City Youth Ballet’s including Jiří Kylián, Patrick Delcroix and the While there Luke interned at Yuval Pick’s Rameau, 2 in D Minor, Scattered Rhymes, Australian Tour of Together Live, performing director, Izadora Weiss. In 2015 he joined National Choreographic Center De Rillieux-la- Frame of Mind, New Breed, Triptych and in Lucas Jervies’ PowerHouse. Most recently ImPerfect Dancers Company (Pisa, Italy), Pape and Elena Tupyseva’s Balet Moskva. Upon CounterMove. Holly was named in the 2014 Dean played the role of Young Brett Whiteley directed by Walter Matteini and Ina Broeckx graduating with Honours, he received the and 2017 Dance Australia Critics’ Survey for in Theatre of Image’s Brett and Wendy… A and in August 2016 he joined Ballet des Ingrid-Biedenkopf-Stipendium and accepted being a ‘Dancer to Watch’. Follow Holly on Love Story Bound by Art directed by Kim Car- Stadttheater Bremerhaven, under the direction a contract with Theater Balet Moskva in Instagram @hollyjamiedoyle. penter and choreographed by Lucas Jervies. of Sergei Vanaev, where he worked with Itzik Moscow, Russia, where he joined their Ballet Galili and Ed Wubbe. Jacopo joined Sydney troupe and Contemporary troupe as a Soloist Janessa Dufty Riley Fitzgerald Dance Company in August 2018. for the 2016/17 Season. Luke has now joined Janessa is of Australian and Filipino heritage. Riley graduated from second year at the New Sydney Dance Company in 2019. She received a scholarship to attend the Zealand School Dance in 2018 and has joined Liam Green Queensland Dance School of Excellence the company this year on his first profession- Having grown up in Perth, Liam has trained Dimitri Kleioris where she finished her senior studies and al full-time contract. Prior to training in New with a range of local schools, including Dimitri is a graduate of the Australian Ballet gained her Royal Academy of Dance Solo Zealand, he attended the Victorian College Dynamic Performing Arts and The Graduate School. He has performed leading roles Seal Award. At the age of 18 she continued of the Arts Secondary School for three years. College of Dance. At 15, Liam was accepted internationally including on Broadway in An her dance development at the New Zealand In 2014, he performed a lead role in his first into the Advanced Diploma of Dance at WAAPA, American In Paris, ’s Death in School of Dance (NZSD), majoring in Con- professional performance, Vertical Shadows being the youngest to enter into the program. Venice and The Anatomy of a Passing Cloud temporary. After completing her diploma Dance Company’s The White Prince, alongside Liam worked with the West Australian Ballet with the Royal New Zealand Ballet. He partic- at the NZSD, Janessa joined New Zealand’s highly regarded Australian dancers Damien for 5 years, ending his time at the company as ularly enjoys the process of creation and has acclaimed Black Grace Dance Company. Welch, Marc Cassidy, and Teagan Lowe. Whilst a Demi-Soloist, before joining Sydney Dance worked with the likes of Meryl Tankard, Javier Janessa joined Sydney Dance Company in at the New Zealand School of Dance he per- Company in 2019. Liam’s repertoire is ex- de Frutos, Christopher Wheeldon and with 2009. She has been named in the 2012, 2014 formed works by critically acclaimed chore- pansive and diverse, including works such as Robert Wilson at the Watermill Centre. Dimitri and 2017 Dance Australia Critics’ Survey for ographers Damien Jalet (Les Mèdusès, Volk Radio and Juliet by Edward Clug, In Transit by has performed in various film and television ‘Most Outstanding Dancer’. Version) and Cheng Tseng-lung (Wicked Fish). Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Les Indomptes shows including Flesh and Bone on which he by Claude Brumachon. These are just but a few was a series regular. Liam is proud to have featured in. In his spare time, Liam studies a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Finance and Economics, at The University of Western Australia.

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Chloe Leong Emily Seymour Charmene Yap Victor Zarallo Chloe started dancing at the age of six at Emily Seymour began her ballet studies at the After graduating from Western Australian Originally from Barcelona, Victor began Sydney’s Brent Street studios, and later Tanya Pearson Classical Coaching Academy Academy of Performing Arts with a Bachelor competing in ballroom dancing from the age studied at Lindfield’s Ecole Ballet and Dance and All Starz Performing Arts Studio, in Sydney, of Arts in 2006, Charmene worked with of nine, and was awarded Spanish National Theatre. In 2010 she completed three years Australia. After placing as a finalist in the Youth Dancenorth, Chunky Move, Tasdance, Lucy Champion at age 14. At 15, Victor began training at London’s Rambert School of Ballet America Grand Prix in 2012, Emily joined the Guerin Inc and numerous choreographers. studying ballet at the John Cranko School in and Contemporary Dance. Chloe moved to Houston Ballet II at age 16. She was a member Joining Sydney Dance Company in 2010, Stuttgart, Germany, before joining the Royal Barcelona in 2012 to join the junior contem- of Houston Ballet II for two years and joined Charmene has won multiple awards including Ballet School in London, where he graduated in porary company IT Dansa under the direction the Houston Ballet Company as an Appren- ‘Best Female Dancer’ in the 2012 Helpmann 2008. Victor joined the Scottish Ballet in 2008 of Catherine Allard. During her two years with tice in 2016. Emily joined the West Australian Awards and ‘Outstanding Performance by and was promoted to soloist in 2014. During this the Company she performed works by Rafael Ballet as a Young Artist, where she performed a Female Dancer’ in the 2013 Australian time Victor danced in Cinderella (The Prince) Bonachela, Alexander Ekman, Ohad Naharin works by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and many Dance Awards for her performance in Rafael choreographer Christopher Hampson, Swan and Sidi Labi Cherkaoui. Chloe joined Sydney more. Emily joined Sydney Dance Company in Bonachela’s 2 One Another. She was awarded Lake (The Prince) choreographer David Dawson, Dance Company in 2015. She won the 2015 February 2018 and her first performance with the 2014 Helpmann Award for ‘Best Female Peirrot Lunaire choreographer Glen Tetley, Jiří Helpmann Award for ‘Best Female Dancer’ for the Company was at the Théâtre National de Dancer’ for her performance in Rafael Kylián 1420, and The Five Tangos choreographer her performance in William Forsythe’s Quintett. Chaillot in Paris, followed by Sydney Dance Bonachela’s 2 in D Minor. Charmene made Hans van Manen, amongst others. Victor Follow Chloeon Instagram @chloeleong. Company’s European Spring Tour. Her first per- her choreographic debut with Do We for moved to Australia and joined Sydney Dance formance in Australia was in May with ab [intra]. New Breed 2014. Company in 2018. His first performance with Jesse Scales the Company was Frame of Mind, Lux Tenebris Born in Hobart, Jesse is from Adelaide where Mia Thompson Chloe Young and Wildebeest as part of the 2018 Europe Tour. she trained with Terry Simpson and was Mia was born in Queensland Australia and Chloe Young graduated from Sydney Dance awarded her Rad Solo Seal. She received started her dance training at the age of four Company’s Pre-Professional Year in 2017 full scholarships to study with Complexions with the Yvonne Brittain Dance Academy. and joined the Company as Trainee in 2018. Contemporary Ballet in New York and She went on to join Queensland Ballet’s Pre- Chloe’s first onstage performance with the Nederlands Dans Theatre in The Hague and Professional Year in 2010 where she performed Company was in Rafael Bonachela’s award- went on to major in classical ballet at the New alongside the company in many productions. winning works Frame Of Mind and Lux Tenebris Zealand School of Dance. Since joining Sydney In 2011 Mia joined West Australian Academy during the Company’s South America Tour to Dance Company in 2012, Jesse performed of Performing Arts (WAAPA). After completing Chile and Colombia in 2018. Chloe graduated a feature role in the Australian premiere of two years at WAAPA Mia accepted a job with from Queensland National Ballet’s Advanced William Forsythe’s Quintett for which she was Queensland Ballet under the directorship of Li Diploma in Elite Performance in 2016. awarded the 2015 Green Room Award for Cunxin. After three years with the Queensland ‘Best Female Dancer’ and a nomination for Ballet, Mia joined the Scottish Ballet as an the 2015 Helpmann Award for ‘Best Female artist in 2016 and was promoted to First Dancer’. Jesse made her choreographic debut Artist in 2018. Some of her highlights include in Sydney Dance Company’s 2016 New Breed the role of the Sugarplum in Peter Darrel’s season. In 2017 Jesse was named ‘Most The Nutcracker. Mia joined Sydney Dance Outstanding Dancer’ in the Dance Australia Company in January 2019. Critics’ Choice Survey.

26 sydneydancecompany.com 27 #SDCTurns50 Staff

Board of Directors Management Major Gifts Manager Michelle Boyle Karen Moses (Chair) Artistic Director Brett Clegg (Deputy Chair) Rafael Bonachela Corporate Development Pam Bartlett Manager Jillian Broadbent AC Executive Director Alex Bellemore Peter Brownie Anne Dunn Kiera Grant Annual Giving Manager Mark Hassell Deputy Executive Sonia Grebenshikoff Catriona Mordant AM Director Beau Neilson Sean Radcliffe Philanthropy Executive Emma-Jane Newton Heloise Cahill Chrissy Sharp Producer Carla Zampatti AC Dominic Chang Corporate Partnerships and Events Executive Patron Programming Coordinator Lachlan Bell Dame Darcey Bussell DBE Kerry Thampapillai Philanthropy Assistant Ambassadors Accountant Carina Martin Judy Crawford Melissa Sim Bee Hopkins Head of Marketing Jules Maxwell Payroll Assistant Zena Morellini Carina Mision Dance Noir Digital Marketing Sydney Dance Company Executive Assistant Coordinator would like to thank the 2019 Andy Grant Anne Brito Dance Noir Committee. Project Manager Marketing Coordinator Co-Chairs: Pam Bartlett Nick Read Adrienne Salmon Peter Reeve Development Director Marketing & Publicity Committee: Sally Burleigh, Zoë Cobden-Jewitt Assistant Jane Clifford, Debbie Coffey, Amelia Zhou Vitek Czernuszyn, Georgina CRM & Ticketing Fergusson, Alexa Haslingden, Manager Publicity Manager Donna Jackson, Tina Johnson, Heath Wilder Alexandra Barlow Terry Kaljo, Jan Logan, Jane McCallum, Christina Voitenko, Ticketing Specialist Resident Multimedia Artist Michelle Walsh and Judi Wolf. John Calvi Pedro Greig

29 #SDCTurns50 Director of Education The Company Sydney Dance Company and Outreach GPO Box 1598 Caroline Spence Rehearsal Director Sydney NSW 2001 Donors Chris Aubrey Head of Open Programs Join the Conversation Polly Brett Juliette Barton #SDCTurns50 (Maternity Leave) sydneydancecompany.com Dance Class Manager Alex Borg (Trainee) Ramon Doringo Ariella Casu Facebook Davide Di Giovanni sydneydanceco Schools and Youth Holly Doyle Coordinator Janessa Dufty YouTube Emma Powell-El Gammal Dean Elliott sydneydancecompany Jacob Williams Riley Fitzgerald (Maternity Cover) Jacopo Grabar Instagram Liam Green @sydneydanceco Head of Training Luke Hayward Linda Gamblin Dimitri Kleioris Twitter Chloe Leong @sydneydanceco Pre-Professional Year Jesse Scales Course Coordinator Emily Seymour With Thanks As Australia’s leading contemporary dance company, we Performance Partners Omer Backley-Astrachan Mia Thompson Sydney Dance Company see the profound and transformative effects of dance every $20,000+ Charmene Yap would like to thank the day. From new commissions to school performances and Manuela Darling-Gansser Learning Manager Chloe Young following people. outreach programs, open classes and student workshops, and Michael Darling Sam Dashwood Victor Zarallo dance enriches life. David and Fiona Hancock Tony Davies Susan Maple-Brown AM Customer Service Assistant Company Doctor Amanda Descoeudres We rely on your support to continue our mission to bring and the late Robert Alys Gwillim Dr. Michael Berger Jacquie Riddell dance to as many people as possible, in Australia and around Maple-Brown AO the world – and nurturing the next generation of dancers. Sandra McCullagh Education Strategic Advisor Sports Doctor Teacher Reference Group (in tribute to my mum) Helen Cameron Dr. James Lawrence Carley Bugeja Make a gift today by calling +61 2 9258 4832 or email Karen Moses Katrina Cluff [email protected] Beau Neilson and Technical Director Physiotherapists Adelaide Eastley Jeffrey Simpson Guy Harding Ashlea-Mary Cohen Joanne Gilmour Emma-Jane Newton April-Rose Ferris Allie Gunton Platinum Partners and Chris Paxton Stage Manager Rebecca James Robert Albert AO and Elizabeth Albert Simon Turner Company Teachers Ebony Keys The Balnaves Foundation Studio Partners $10,000+ Simonne Smiles Carly Olander Crown Resorts Foundation Kyril Agnew Production Technicians Cathie Goss Jacqueline Saunders Julian Knights AO and Lizanne Knights Pam and Doug Bartlett Tony McCoy Emily Amisano David Sheridan Jules Maxwell Black Diamondz Property James Lister Eileen Hall Jennifer Turner Naomi Milgrom Foundation Concierge Shane Carroll Andrew Messenger Paul Brady and Christine Yip Head Mechanist Fiona Jopp Education Advisory Group The Neilson Foundation Jillian Broadbent AC and John Shedden Richard Cilli Helen Cameron Judith Neilson AM Olev Rahn Saul Smith (Accompanist) Lesley Graham Packer Family Foundation Janice and Tony Burke Head of Wardrobe Julie Dyson Gretel Packer Brett Clegg and Annabel Annie Robinson Rehearsal Photography Ruth Osborne Thyne Reid Foundation Hepworth Pedro Greig Susan Rix The Wales Family Foundation Jane and Andrew Clifford Carla Zampatti Foundation Judy Crawford Dancer Portraits Mary Zuber Cullman Family Fund Ben Symons Kiera Grant Pedro Greig Partner Program Andrew and Emma Gray Donors acknowledged for 12 months John Griffiths and from the date of their gift Beth Jackson The John and Frances Ingham Foundation Sarah and Robby Ingham Memocorp Australia Pty Ltd Mr and Mrs McCullagh

30 sydneydancecompany.com 31 #SDCTurns50 Erin Ostadal and the late David Vitek Daniel and Lyndell Droga Stephen Chase and 2019 Commissioning Fund This campaign will cementour Billy Ostadal Barbara Wilby and Carmel Dwyer Colette Baini position as one of the world’s John Prescott AC and Christopher Joyce Michael Harvey and Min Li Chong Platinum Partners leading dance companies, Jennifer Prescott Ray Wilson OAM Jacqui Galbraith Davidov Partners Architects Jules Maxwell enabling the transformation Ruth Ritchie Family Fund Adam Worling Public Amber Gooley Dr Suresh de Silva The Neilson Foundation of our physical space and Dick and Pip Smith Relations Rosemary Grant Tanya Diesel Carla Zampatti Foundation underpinning our creativity Bianca Spender and Sam Yang Yang Ben Harlow Robyn and John Fennell for decades to come. McGuinness Di Yeldham John Head Marilyn Anne Forbes $20,000+ Alden Toevs and Judi Wolf Anonymous (7) Sue Hoopman Helen Forrester David and Fiona Hancock NSW Government Turner Charles, Joey and Elizabeth and Ben Gilbert Alastair J M Walton Dance Partners $2,000+ Sarah Hue-Williams Gabrielle Gollan $10,000+ The Neilson Foundation Anonymous (5) ADFAS Sydney Michael Ihlein James Gribble Kyril Agnew The Wales Family Foundation Ralph Ashton Allen Iu and Josie Gurney Paul Brady and Christine Yip Jane and Andrew Clifford Duet Partners $5,000+ Paul Bedbrook Bernadette Walker Rachael Hagget Jillian Broadbent AC and Catriona Mordant AM and Aniek Baten John and Susan Blue Tony Jones Nabeel and Marian Ibrahim Olev Rahn Simon Mordant AM Colin Bell and Donna-May Phillip and Catherine Brenner Virginia Judge The Teresa Johnson Manuela Darling-Gansser Carla Zampatti AC Bolinger Jane Bridge Josephine Key and Ballet School John Griffiths and Burquest Family Peter Chadwick Ian Breden Robert Kidd Beth Jackson Julian Knights AO and Andrew Cameron AM John and Libby Clayton Joanne Killen Andrew and Charlotte Lennox Sarah and Robby Ingham Lizanne Knights Susie Dickson and Martin Paul R. Espie Susan Kirby Connie Mckeage Memocorp Australia Pty Ltd Dickson AM Annalise Fairfax Carol Lewis and Ian Ashby Dr Clinton Ng Bianca Spender and Pam and Doug Bartlett Suellen and Ron Enestrom Belinda Gibson Christina Ludwigson Simon Oaten Sam McGuiness Kiera Grant and Mark Tallis James and Jacqui Erskine Girgensohn Foundation Heidi and Jordan Martin Stephen O’Rourke Mark Hassell George Frazis Julie Godfrey Jane McCallum Natalie Pelham $5,000+ The Alexandra and Kay Freedman and the late Bradford Gorman and Jacqueline O’Brien Mark Royle Brett Clegg and Lloyd Martin Family Ian Wallace Dean Fontana Dr Lisa O’Brien Norman R Scott Annabel Hepworth Foundation Ian Galloway and Gabrielle Iwanow Tony O’Regan Jillian Segal AM Jane and Andrew Clifford Karen Moses Linda Treadwell David Jonas and K Palghat Jann Skinner Kiera Grant Emma-Jane Newton and Margaret Gibbs Desmon Du Plessis Marion Pascoe Emma and Duncan Snodgrass Kathryn Greiner AO Chris Paxton Kathryn Greiner AO Elias and Jana Juanas Greeba Pritchard Jan Sundell OAM David Mathlin and Thyne Reid Foundation Mark Hassell Agata Kenna Kate Richardson and Guy Thompson Camilla Drover Mary Zuber Linda Herd Les Kennedy Chris Marrable John and Gay Woods Catriona Mordant AM Fraser Hopkins Marina and Richard Leong Allegra Spender and Matthew Yovich and Simon Mordant AM Peter and Liz Brownie Tina and Mark Johnson Susie Manfred and Mark Capps Monica Zhao Paris Neilson and Paul Brady and Christine Yip John Kaldor AO Hunter McPherson Alida Stanley Anonymous (12) Todd Buncombe Brett Clegg and Annabel Alexandra Martin in memory Andrew and Del McGuiness Janine Stewart Penelope Seidler AM Hepworth of Lloyd Martin AM Matina Papathanasiou Stuart Thomas 2019 Pre–Professional Jane and Richard Carina Martin Stedmans Mike Thompson Year Scholarships Up to $5,000 Freudenstein David Mathlin and Vanepe Pty Ltd Sylvia Tooth Stephen and Julie Fitzgerald Janice and Tony Burke Cullman Family Fund Camilla Drover CA Scala and DB Studdy Yates Family Doug Hall Foundation Burquest Family David Mathlin Jane McCallum Ezekiel Solomon AM Anonymous (7) The Wales Family Foundation Judy Crawford Clare Munnelly Anonymous (7) Scholarship Kenneth Howison Paris Neilson and Ensemble Partners Mary Zuber Scholarship Dr Clinton Ng Todd Buncombe Rehearsal Partners $250 - $999 Emma-Jane Newton and Roslyn Packer AC $1,000+ Dr Cynthia à Beckett In March 2019, Sydney Chris Paxton David Park Janet Abernethy and Gordon Smith Dance Company will launch Ezekiel Solomon AM peckvonhartel architects Lenore and the late Annie and Doug Aitken Contemporary Women Allegra Spender Rebel Penfold-Russell OAM Ross Adamson ArchMove Collective Supporting Dance (CWSD). Vanepe Pty Ltd Peter Reeve and Jaycen Antoinette Albert Diego Balagna As a Company with a proud Anonymous (1) Fletcher Ian Belgiorno-Zegna John Barrer history of supporting female Kellie and Warryn Robertson Berg Family Foundation Bill and Marissa Best artists, this program will Sydney Dance Company’s Rossi Foundation Benmill Pty Ltd and Minnie Biggs connect these artists with the Take A Step Campaign Penelope Seidler AM JB No 3 Pty Ltd Matthew Blampey members of CWSD, providing We hereby thank the following Peter and Victoria Shorthouse Natalie Best Margaret Blok support and engagement donors for their visionary Leslie Stern Celia and Eckhart Bischoff David Bluff across the year. We look support of our Capital Lorraine Tarabay and Nick Maxine Brenner Bodycentric forward to acknowledging Campaign, through which we Langley Jacqui Burton Sarah Brasch members of CWSD in future are taking steps to secure Victoria Taylor Janine Collins Matty Burton programs. the next 50 years of Sydney Turnbull Foundation Rob Coombe Kerrie Cai Dance Company.

32 sydneydancecompany.com 33 #SDCTurns50 Board of Directors Artistic Director Director Cultural Facilities Corporation Ian Narev (Chair) Kip Williams Bruce Carmichael Ann Johnson (Deputy Chair) Board Members The Hon Bruce Baird AM Executive Director Administration Justice Richard Refshauge (Chair) Anita Belgiorno-Nettis AM Patrick McIntyre Phone 02 6243 5711 Helen O’Neil (Deputy Chair) Mark Lazberger Fax 02 6243 5721 Ms Virginia Haussegger AM Patrick McIntyre Senior Producer [email protected] Genevieve Jacobs Gretel Packer Ben White canberratheatrecentre.com.au Shad Sears Daniel Petre AO Vicky Darling Heather Mitchell Venue Manager Canberra Ticketing Annette Shun Wah Kerry Ireland Phone 02 6275 2700 Chief Executive Officer Kip Williams Fax 02 6230 1098 Ms Harriet Elvin Venue Coordinator canberraticketing.com.au Milica Pajic Chief Finance Officer Mr Ian Tidy Head Mechanist Steve Mason Acknowledgement Canberra Theatre Centre is administered Deputy Head Fly Operator by the Cultural Facilities Corporation which Jason Edwards receives financial funding assistance through the ACT Government’s Minister for the Arts. Head Electrician Andrew Tompkins

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