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Sydney Dance Company Forever & Ever Sydney 2—3 Dance Welcome Company Message New Breed 29 Nov – 8 Dec Carriageworks Four extraordinary, new dance creators Four powerful new works One of the things that I love most about my Book Now job is the opportunity to commission the work sydneydancecompany.com of choreographers that I respect and admire carriageworks.com.au and to bring those works to the stage with the incredible dancers of the Company. I love to Made possible by: bring those creative voices to our audiences and I am always on the look out for the best that contemporary dance has to offer from Australia and the world. I discovered the work of Antony Hamilton several years ago and have closely followed #SDCForever his rapidly ascending career since. He is a critically acclaimed and multi-award winning choreographer, whose intricately crafted choreography, movement vocabulary and visual aesthetic are truly unique and distinctive. I particularly want to thank the Naomi Milgrom Foundation for so generously supporting this new commission of Antony Hamilton’s Forever & Ever. This partnership between Until one sees the whole Sydney Dance Company and the Naomi picture, can we truly Milgrom Foundation reflects a shared appreciate quality? commitment to innovation and excellence in Australian dance. It is a great pleasure for Art stimulates, challenges and Sydney Dance Company to present this world rewards us. It helps make our world better. By supporting the business premiere alongside my own Frame of Mind. of arts, institutions can grow, innovate and deliver their ambitious Rafael Bonachela programmes and make art accessible Artistic Director to everyone. And that’s how we make the art world work better. ey.com/au/arts #BetterQuestions sydneydancecompany.com © 2018 Ernst & Young, Australia. All Rights Reserved. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation. ED 0518. IN1831468. 4—5 With Thanks Forever & Ever and Frame of Mind Our home here in Sydney is our favourite place The many organisations, individuals and Forever & Ever Performances to perform and the place where we take great foundations who support Sydney Dance 16 – 27 October Tuesday 16 Oct, 8pm (Preview) pride in presenting world premiere works to Company also play a vital role in allowing the Roslyn Packer Theatre Wednesday 17 Oct, 8pm (Opening Night) our audiences. Tonight, you will see just such Company to continue to bring groundbreaking Walsh Bay Thursday 18 Oct, 8pm a work with Forever & Ever, but of course that’s world premiere performances to audiences, Friday 19 Oct, 8pm not all we do. We also work hard to make sure first here in Sydney, and then to take them to Frame of Mind Saturday 20 Oct, 8pm the joy of watching and participating in this the world. Rafael Bonachela (35 mins) Tuesday 23 Oct, 11am (Primary School Matinee) incredible artform is shared by as many people Tuesday 23 Oct, 6:30pm as possible. The support of Government is vital and valued Interval (20 mins) Wednesday 24 Oct, 6:30pm and we would like to thank the Australian Thursday 25 Oct, 12pm The performance season is accompanied Government for its support delivered through Forever & Ever (Secondary School Matinee) by free Artist Talks, behind the scenes the Australia Council for the Arts, and the NSW Antony Hamilton (approx 36 mins) Thursday 25 Oct, 8pm #SDCForever opportunities to watch Company Class on Government for the support it delivers through Friday 26 Oct, 8pm stage, school matinee performances for both Create NSW. Saturday 27 Oct, 2pm primary and secondary students and a rich Saturday 27 Oct, 8pm workshop program designed to allow young people to participate in creative learning. Anne Dunn Behind the Scenes Events The program of activities for this season Executive Director and throughout the year, is supported by our Artist Talk: Behind the Curtain extraordinary donors and corporate partners. Thursday 11 Oct, 6:30 – 7:30pm Their help allows us to provide subsidised places to our school matinee programs, In Conversation with Rafael Bonachela, extend our workshops into Western Sydney Antony Hamilton, Jeff Khan and Daniel Kok and engage with communities who might not Saturday 20 Oct, 5:00 – 6:00pm otherwise have the opportunity to participate in the performing arts. Company Class Viewing Saturday 27 Oct, 11:30am – 12:45pm sydneydancecompany.com 6—7 Frame of Mind Credits Choreography Rafael Bonachela Set and Costume Design Ralph Myers Costume Design Realisation Aleisa Jelbart Lighting Design Benjamin Cisterne #SDCForever Music Aheym For String Quartet, Little Blue Something, Tenebre Written by Bryce David Dessner Published by Chester Music By kind permission of the Music Sales Group Consultant Samuel Webster We thank the following partners for their generosity in enabling the live music element of this work: Susie Dickson and Martin Dickson AM, Nelson Meers Foundation, Roslyn Packer AC, Penelope Seidler AM and Ian Wallace Family Bequest. Sydney Dance Company is also grateful to those Partners who supported the original commission of Frame of Mind in 2015. sydneydancecompany.com 8—9 Rafael Bonachela Choreographer & Artistic Director Note Biography Frame of Mind was born from my own My immense gratitude goes to those that have Rafael Bonachela has been the Artistic collection of artworks that made up experience of wanting to be in two places at helped create this work, my collaborators in Director and resident choreographer for the exhibition Nude – Art from the once. Both places were equally important to design and construction, the team at Sydney Sydney Dance Company since 2009. In that Tate Collection at the Art Gallery of me. Whatever decision I made would not be Dance Company and the inimitable dancers time he has created 14 works for Sydney New South Wales. able to satisfy the complexity of my desires, who give their all each and every time. Dance Company’s repertoire. In addition, nor the needs of those around me. As human he has remounted outstanding repertoire Bonachela’s internationally recognised beings, we are infinitely complex in our I am thrilled and honoured to be working with from Bonachela Dance Company and talent has seen him work not only with psychological states and the way we express the renowned Australian String Quartet this commissioned Australian and international contemporary dance at the highest level but ourselves emotionally and verbally are simple season. Cross art-form collaborations such choreographers to create original works also with artists from popular culture, such solutions to a much larger process. For as this fuels the expressive and transformative for the Company. as Kylie Minogue, Tina Turner, Sarah Blasko cases of the heart, concrete communication power of live performance. The ASQ are an and Katie Noonan as well as leading fashion #SDCForever becomes a way to structure our thoughts, but ensemble that will truly bring the exquisite Bonachela is a multi-award winning designers Dion Lee and Toni Maticevski. we must be careful not to leave behind the music of Bryce Dessner to life as they choreographer both nationally Such collaborative efforts reflect the complex emotional information, which makes perform live on stage, alongside Sydney & internationally. In 2015 Frame of Mind inspiration he finds and utilises from culture us who we are at any given moment. In many Dance Company. won the Helpmann Awards for ‘Best today. In February 2013, Bonachela was ways, Frame of Mind is a work which engages Choreography’ and ‘Best Dance Work’. honoured with an Officer’s Cross of the with the aspiration we all have, to engage and Since Frame of Mind was last seen in Sydney His work 2 One Another won the ‘Best Order of Civil Merit by His Majesty the be understood without the need for words: the work has travelled with us right across Ensemble’ Award in the 2012 Green Room King of Spain. to be held, supported, confronted, lifted and Australia, the United States of America, Awards and the 2013 Australian Dance guided by those we hold dear. Frame of Mind Germany, Chile and Colombia. It is so exciting Awards for ‘Outstanding Achievement Bonachela began his early dance training is an acknowledgement of our emotional lives, to once again bring it back to Sydney for its in Choreography’ and ‘Outstanding in Barcelona and was a member of the our vulnerability, our empathy, our fragility and second viewing, but this time to present it with Performance by a Company’. legendary Rambert Dance Company, both our strength. live music. as a dancer and Associate Choreographer. In 2012 Bonachela curated the international He established the Bonachela Dance The impulse to feel, experience and festival Spring Dance for Sydney Opera Company (BDC) in 2006 and was a resident understand a dance work in the theatre House. In 2013 he developed the artist at the Southbank Centre in London. should be an individual one – beginning in the choreography for artists Jennifer Allora and As a choreographer, he has been heart and contemplated in your mind. It is Guillermo Calzadilla’s work Revolving Door, commissioned to make works for Candoco, your frame of mind which colours your world, which was part of the acclaimed live George Piper Dances, ITDANSA, Danza and the same should be true of art. When performance art exhibition 13 Rooms. For Contemporanea de Cuba, Dresden Frankfurt all explanations have been exhausted and Sydney Festival 2015, he collaborated with Dance Company and Dance Works you find yourselves outside of definition but artist Mira Calix to choreograph for the Inside Rotterdam amongst others. immersed in sensation—the only thing left There Falls installation at Carriageworks. sydneydancecompany.com is to feel. More recently, he created Nude Live, a dance Follow Rafael on Instagram @rafaelbonachela. installation amongst the extraordinary 10—11 Ralph Myers Benjamin Cisterne Set & Costume Lighting Design Design Note Biography Note Biography I’ve wanted to work with Rafael Bonachela, Ralph Myers is a director and designer and Two predominant sources of light allude to Benjamin’s reputation is for finesse and a ever since he took the reigns of Sydney is the former Artistic Director of Belvoir.