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Choreography

Rafael Bonachela in collaboration with the #SDC dancers of Sydney Dance Company I ntra Original music Nick Wales

Additional music Peteris Vasks

Lighting design Damien Cooper

Production & Costume design David Fleischer

Duration Approx. 70 minutes no interval sydneydancecompany.com

4 5 Rafael Bonachela Choreographer & Artistic Director

Note Biography

ab [intra] is the first full length work I have made It has been a pleasure to work with each of my Rafael Bonachela has been the Artistic Director Bonachela’s internationally recognised talent #SDC in six years and I wanted to capture the energy collaborators on this piece. Dance relies so and resident choreographer for Sydney Dance has seen him work not only with contemporary I and drive I feel each time I walk into the studio. heavily on the intersection of creative ideas Company since 2009. In that time he has dance at the highest level but also with artists ntra and trust, both in the studio and in the creation created 14 works for Sydney Dance Company’s from popular culture, such as Kylie Minogue, I think about ab [intra] (latin for from within) as of the stage environment that surrounds the repertoire. In addition, he has remounted Tina Turner, Sarah Blasko and Katie Noonan as an energy transfer between the internal and movement. Thank you to Damien Cooper, outstanding repertoire from Bonachela Dance well as leading fashion designers Dion Lee the external. For me it is more than the external David Fleischer and Nick Wales for the results Company and commissioned Australian and and Toni Maticevski. Such collaborative efforts expression of internal concepts, in this dance of your individual elements and the results of international choreographers to create original reflect the inspiration he finds and utilises from sphere it is a representation of energy – an your collective efforts. I truly appreciated the works for the Company. culture today. In February 2013, Bonachela was energy derived from the interaction of these process as well as the outcome. honoured with an Officer’s Cross of the Order of two facets of our worlds. Bonachela is a multi-award winning Civil Merit by His Majesty the King of Spain. choreographer both nationally & internationally. My innate human and personal instincts play a In 2015 Frame of Mind won the Helpmann Bonachela began his early dance training in major role in my creativity; they feed through Awards for ‘Best Choreography’ and ‘Best Barcelona and was a member of the legendary the entire process from the point of inspiration, Dance Work’. His work 2 One Another won the Rambert Dance Company, both as a dancer collaborations at every level and right through ‘Best Ensemble’ Award in the 2012 Green and Associate Choreographer. He established to the living moments of the final performance. I Room Awards and the 2013 Australian Dance the Bonachela Dance Company (BDC) in 2006 wanted to try to capture this internal instinctive Award for ‘Outstanding Achievement in and was a resident artist at the Southbank process and make an external representation of Choreography’ and ‘Outstanding Performance Centre in London. As a choreographer, he has it and so ab [intra] was born. by a Company’. been commissioned to make works for Candoco, George Piper Dances, ITDANSA, Danza

The creative process started as a series of In 2012 Bonachela curated the international Contemporanea de Cuba, Dresden Frankfurt sydneydancecompany.com improvisations where I asked the dancers to be in festival Spring Dance for Sydney Opera House. Dance Company and Dance Works Rotterdam the moment with each other, to feel and listen In 2013 he developed the choreography amongst others. - to use their instincts and their impulses and for artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo then seek to capture those moments in writing. Calzadilla’s work Revolving Door, which was Those written phrases became the direction part of the acclaimed live performance art for a physical movement sequence, a script for exhibition 13 Rooms. For Sydney Festival dance, an energy transfer from the thought to 2015, he collaborated with artist Mira Calix the body. to choreograph for the Inside There Falls installation at Carriageworks. More recently, The dancers are an integral part of my creative he created Nude Live, a dance installation process and they give life and form to my amongst the extraordinary collection of instincts and creative impulses every day. artworks that made up the exhibition “Nude-Art ab [intra] for me is a work that is derived from from the Tate Collection”. the group dynamic of the dancers and what they give in the studio and on the stage, collectively and as individuals, and I thank them for their generosity and tireless efforts.

6 7 Nick Wales Composer

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The early stages for the creation of ab [intra] saw This movement slowly builds and recedes into Written and Produced by Nick Wales Nick Wales’ visceral, immersive and progressive #SDC Rafael and I searching for additional music to an introspective, lament like transition for solo with music is a hybrid between classical forms, I accompany my compositions. The second cello piano and electronics. Vasks' Allegro Moderato Featured Cello – Julian Thompson electronic and popular music. ab [intra] is Nick’s ntra concerto Klābātne / Presence by Peteris Vasks boldly bounds forward with its neo-classical Drums and Percussion – Bree van Reyk eighth collaboration with Rafael Bonachela and featuring the cellist Sol Gabetta stood out to rhythmic vitality and cadenza like solo climax by Electric Violin – Imogen Jones his ninth with Sydney Dance Company. Recent us as posessing great passion, immediacy and cellist Sol Gabetta. Voice / song collaborator – Jack Colwell commissions include collaborations with drive and we decided to incorporate the first Additional electronics and choreographer Marina Mascarelle for Ballet de and second movements into ab [intra]. The final ‘coda’ of ab [intra] again features programming – Dane Yates l'Opéra de Lyon, visual artist Lauren Brincat for Julian Thompson with a small string orchestra. String Orchestra Leader – Veronique Serret the 2016 Sydney Bienalle and Hayden Fowler Our decision to use Vasks' concerto informed As a final layer to the music, I collaborated with String Orchestra conductor – Roland Peelman for the Adelaide Bienalle of Australian Art 2018. my initial musical choices, my first gut reaction songwriter Jack Colwell for a song to conclude Music Mix and sound engineering – Bob Scott Nick has worked with choreographer Shaun was to work with the Australian cellist Julian the work. The poetic verse Jack and I dreamed Additional sound engineering – Phil Punch Parker on a number of works including the Thompson. Together, we recorded fragments up was an ever present reference point for my Helpmann nominated score for AM I, Happy as of cello material for me to build the opening creative process as a whole: Additional music Larry and the outdoor works Spill and Trolleys, two movements of the work. The opening bars Peteris Vasks, Klātbātne – Presence: both commissioned for the 2012 London of Vasks' concerto with it’s almost lonely ‘col from within Concerto No. 2 for cello and string orchestra cultural Olympiad. He has scored a number legno’ and ‘pizzicato’ motifs informed some of are we born (movement I. Cadenza – Andante cantablle, of film and television projects including the these initial recordings. from within movement II. Allegro moderato) feature film Around the Block. are we without ourselves By permission of Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd, ab [intra] begins with the textual pulsations and exclusive agents for Schott Music Ltd of Mainz While Wales' contemporary dance scores are lamentation of a solitary cello building to an the pulse of others vibrating Soloist – Sol Gebetta both challenging and abstract, his pop

expansive almost landscape-like symphonic just like the lark ascending Orchestra – Amsterdam Sinfonietta Recording sensibilities are undeniable. Traversing all sydneydancecompany.com wall of sound. Pizzicato cello samples feature in pulls us closer to the trees – Sony Music genres as a founding member of ARIA the opening two movements, driving the back to each other nominated classical-fusion band CODA, he work forward into ‘activation’ with the Movement 1 – ‘Birth’ – Nick Wales Movement has also collaborated with Sarah Blasko introduction of darker electronic and leave this world 2 – ‘Activation’ – Nick Wales Movement 3 – for a number of years, writing the orchestral percussive passages, counterbalanced with untouched ‘Cadenza’ – Andante’ Peteris Vasks feat. Sol arrangements for her 2012 album I Awake and visceral string textures. The electronica gives every stone Gabtta & made contributions to her most recent albums way to Vasks' “Cadenza - Andante” with its unturned, untouched, unturned the Amsterdam Sinfonietta Depth of Field (2018) and Eternal Return (2016). beautiful and passionate builds, lush beauty Movement 4 – ‘Ecstatic Gestures’ – Nick Wales The pair also composed the Sydney Dance and rich sonority. Movement 5 – ‘Allegro Moderato’ Peteris Company score Emergence together for Rafael Vasks feat. Sol Gabtta & the Amsterdam Bonachela. Emergence was released as a The fourth movement of ab [intra] features Sinfonietta Movement 6 – Within – Nick Wales soundtrack in 2015 via the Create Control label. piano, intricate percussion and organic and electronica. I was interested in exploring ideas Jack Colwell around soft anticipation, building ecstatic states and the inward sources of strength one can achieve through quietly looking within.

8 9 Damien Cooper Lighting Design

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I’ve spent a lot of time in rehearsal for ab [intra] Damien Cooper works internationally across #SDC over the last five months. Each time I watch theatre, opera and dance. Damien’s dance I I am struck by how much energy is in the credits include Of Earth and Sky (Bangarra), The ntra room. The music has an intensity that drives Narrative of Nothing, Firebird and Swan Lake the choreography into a world of unrelenting (Australian Ballet). Giselle (Universal Ballet), climaxes. So. How does a lighting designer Habitus and Be Yourself (Australian Dance illuminate endless crescendos. My previous Theatre), The Frock (made & Ten days on the designs have furiously tried to support the Island Festival), Affinity (Tas Dance), Mortal energy that comes from choreography and Engine (Chunky Move). Other Theatre credits music, finding ways that support dramatic include Mark Colvin’s Kidney, The Great Fire, shifts, creating contrasts, driving the shows Radiance, The Glass Menagerie, Coranderrk, forward. But, ab [intra], I feel needs a calm Miss Julie, Stories I Want to Tell You in Person, space, a simple space that can support the Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Peter Pan, Private Lives, extremities of what you are about to see. Conversation Piece, Strange Interlude, Summer Maybe? Can I restrain myself? of the Seventeenth Doll, Neighbourhood Watch, The Seagull, Gethsemane, Keating!, Time will tell. Toy Symphony, Peribanez, Stuff Happens, The Chairs, The Spook, In Our Name, The To contrast with the energy from the dancers Underpants, The Ham Funeral (Belvoir). we have used low energy LED fixtures so that Disgraced, Orlando, Arcadia, A Midsummer our total energy usage is under 15000 watts. Night’s Dream, The Golden Age, Suddenly Last

Thats equal to about twelve incandescent Summer, The Women of Troy, The Lost Echo, sydneydancecompany.com theatre lights. A far cry from the average two Riflemind, Tot Mom (Sydney Theatre Company); hundred and fifty we normally use. I’m proud Macbeth and The Tempest (Bell Shakespeare). Sydney Dance Company was able reduce its The Ring Cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, energy footprint for this production. Aida and Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera Australia), A Midsummer Nights’s Dream (Houston Grand I think this show is going to be beautiful. Opera, Canadian Opera, Lyric Opera Chicago) Just you wait. The Magic Flute (Lyric Opera Chicago). For lighting design, Damien has won three Sydney Theatre Awards, three Green Room Awards, and two Australian Production Design Guild Awards.

10 11 David Fleischer Costume & Production Design

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ab [intra] is a work of breadth and scale. From David is a set and costume designer, working #SDC its earliest inception, my collaboration with with various theatre, dance and opera I Rafael has continued to focus on both the companies across Australia including Sydney ntra power and precision of the work being created. Theatre Company, Sydney Dance Company, This focus in turn has been to develop a Opera Australia, Melbourne Theatre Company, visual language that seeks to encompass the Queensland Theatre, Griffin Theatre, Belvoir distinct and contrasting musical styles. Like Street Theatre, Malthouse Theatre, Sydney the choreography itself, what we see on stage Chamber Opera, Pinchgut Opera, Darlinghurst synthesizes the clarity and elegance of the Theatre, Milkcrate Theatre, Black Swan State classical scoring as well as the contemporary Theatre Company, Sisters Grimm, and Brisbane pulse of Nick’s mesmerising composition. Festival, among others.

Our space is one of distillation – a long terrain His most recent credits include Ocho for Sydney with somewhat obscured boundaries – Dance Company, Scenes From A Marriage for heightening the smallness of the human figure Queensland Theatre, Aida for Opera Australia's at times, but also providing a platform for the 'Opera On The Beach', Love And Information bigness of the work to be shaped and sculpted and Calpurnia Descending for Malthouse on. Or the first blots of emulsion on a pure Theatre, Belvoir’s Hedda Gabler, and Sydney white canvas. The clarity and epic quality of this Theatre Company's Top Girls, Chimerica, spatial gesture aims to match the virtuosity of Australian Graffitii, Speed The Plow,Powerplays, the work. The Golden Age, Boys Will Be Boys, Children

of the Sun, Mojo, Travelling North, Machinal, sydneydancecompany.com The dancers are wearing a blend of vintage Romeo and Juliet, Fury, Little Mercy, Under clothing, contemporary fashion and classic Milk Wood, and Marriage Blanc; Between Two dance wear – each chosen or designed to create Waves, The Brothers Size and The Sea Project a collision on stage that, like a kaleidoscope, for Griffin Theatre; L'amant Jaloux and Griselda creates different patterns and visual rhythms as for Pinchgut Opera. the movement evolves. In all cases, there is a specificity and humanity to each item, leaving David was co-resident designer for Sydney us with a sense of the personal and the lived Theatre Company through 2012-2013, was the experience. Albeit in restrained colour pallete, recipient of the 2016 Kristian Fredrikson and strict stylisation, it became clear that Scholarship, and teaches as an associate the closest we could get to a human reality, the lecturer for the National Institute of Dramatic Arts. more inside the work we would become.

12 13 Chris Aubrey Rehearsal Director

Biography

Originally from Sydney, Chris graduated from Award in the 2012 Green Room Awards and #SDC Adelaide Centre for the Arts in 2007 with a the 2013 Australian Dance Award for I Bachelor of Dance Performance and completed ‘Outstanding Achievement in Choreography’ ntra his Cert III and IV in Fitness in 2008. He and ‘Outstanding Performance by a Company’. joined Australian Dance Theatre and worked under the direction of Garry Stewart between Chris was appointed Rehearsal Director of 2007 and 2011. He also worked with Larissa Sydney Dance Company in 2015. McGowan, Antony Hamilton, Lina Limosani, Leigh Warren and choreographed his debut piece titled Apophenia.

Chris joined Sydney Dance Company as a dancer in 2012 and has performed in the world premiere of Rafael Bonachela’s 2 One Another (2012-2014) and Project Rameau (2012); Larissa McGowan’s Fanatic as part of Contemporary Women (2012); De Novo (2013), featuring works by Rafael Bonachela (Emergence), Larissa McGowan (Fanatic) and Alexander Ekman (Cacti) and Interplay (2014) featuring choreography by Rafael Bonachela (2

in D Minor), Jacopo Godani (Raw Models) and sydneydancecompany.com Gideon Obarzanek (L'Chaim!). He was named in the 2012 Dance Australia Critics Survey for ‘Most Outstanding Dancer’ for his performance in The Land of Yes & The Land of No.

Chris was a part of the 2013 collaboration with Kaldor Public Art Projects for the contemporary art exhibition 13 Rooms where Sydney Dance Company featured in Allora and Calzadilla’s Revolving Door. He also toured North America, South America and Russia with the acclaimed 2 One Another, winner of the ‘Best Ensemble’

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Juliette Barton Ariella Casu

Perth born Juliette trained at the Graduate Born in America, living in Italy, Ariella began #SDC College of Dance with Terri Charlesworth, and dancing in her mother’s dance school at I went on to graduate from WAAPA. Juliette has four years old. At 16, Ariella was awarded a ntra performed with Diversions Dance Company in scholarship to train under Mauro Astolfi at Wales and Russell Maliphant Company. She the I.A.L.S. in Rome. Highly regarded for her joined Sydney Dance Company in 2009. Juliette skills in modern dance, Horton, tap (placed made her choreographic debut with her solo fifth internationally in the IDO World Tap piece, Scrutineer, for Sydney Dance Company Championship), contemporary dance and hip and Carriageworks’ New Breed season in 2014. hop. At 19, Ariella performed at the Biennale Juliette was named in the 2012 Dance Australia di Venezia with Arsenale Della Danza. Ariella Critics Survey ‘Most Outstanding Dancer’. She joined Sydney Dance Company in 2018 and will was also nominated for a 2014 Green Room perform with the Company on their European Award for ‘Best Female Dancer’ in Interplay. Tour in April and in Australia for the first time in Juliette was nominated for a Helpmann Award May with ab [intra]. in 2016 in the category of ‘Best Female Dancer’ for Rafael Bonachela’s Lux Tenebris. Davide Di Giovanni (on maternity leave) Davide started his dance life in Teatro Alla Scala in Milan when he was 15. He then received Izzac Carroll a full scholarship to study at the renowned Izzac was born in Warialda in north west NSW ballet school Balletto Di Toscana, joining spending the the first fourteen years of his life the junior company at 17. After three years

there before deciding to pursue a career as a with the Balletto Di Toscano, Davide joined sydneydancecompany.com performing artist. In 2013 he moved to Brisbane Balletto dell’Esperia in Turin, where he met to study dance fulltime at the Australian Dance Jacopo Godani, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano and Performance Institute. Upon completion of William Forsythe. He then moved to Munich at his Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts, 23, where he had the chance to work for the Izzac successfully auditioned for a place in Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz with amazing Sydney Dance Company’s Pre Professional choreographers Marco Göcke, Alexander Year commencing in 2015. Izzac continued his Ekman and Jø Strømgren. He danced One Flat studies with the Pre-Professional Year under Thing, reproduced from William Forsythe, and full scholarship in 2016 before receiving a worked on new creations with Christopher trainee contract with Sydney Dance Company Roman, Nanin Linning, Georg Reischl and and officially joined the Company in 2017. Jacopo Godani. Davide joined Sydney Dance Follow Izzac on instagram @izzac.carroll Company in 2017.

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Dancers Dancers

Holly Doyle Nelson Earl Bernard Knauer Jesse Scales

NSW born Holly Doyle trained under the Nelson was born in Sydney, where he began Born in Germany, Bernhard attended the Born in Hobart, Jesse is from Adelaide where #SDC direction of Gilli O’Connell, Tibor Horvath, most of his dance training at Newtown High Palucca School in Dresden before completing she trained with Terry Simpson and was I Matthew Shilling, Anton Bogdanovych, Matt School of the Performing Arts. He went on to his dance training at The Royal Conservatory awarded her RAD Solo Seal. She received ntra Trent, Kristina Chan and various others. She achieve the Marcus Santos ‘Outstanding Male in The Hague. In 2005 Bernhard was invited to full scholarships to study with Complexions studied dance at Newtown High School of Dancer’ award in 2013. After graduating from join the ballet of Theater Görlitz in Germany. Contemporary Ballet in New York and the Performing Arts, receiving extensive NHSPA, Nelson undertook a year of full time He then performed with the State Theatre of Nederlands Dans Theatre in The Hague and contemporary and classical training. Holly dance training at Sydney Dance Company’s Tyrol. Bernhard joined the Dutch National Ballet went on to major in classical ballet at the New joined the Company in 2013 for De Novo and Pre-Professional Year where he received a full for the 2008 season of Toer van Schayk and Zealand School of Dance. Since joining Sydney has since performed in 2 One Another, Project scholarship from Mary Zuber. Nelson followed Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker and Mouse King. Dance Company in 2012, Jesse performed Rameau, 2 in D Minor, Scattered Rhymes, Sydney Dance Company on their regional He performed in Yuri Zhukov’s Pioneer Plaques a feature role in the Australian premiere of Frame of Mind, New Breed, Triptych and Australian tour where he performed in De Novo. 2009 and Hlín Diego Hjálmarsdóttir’s Caught In William Forsythe’s Quintett for which she was CounterMove. Holly was named in the 2014 At the end of his full time year Nelson was The Square as part of Zhukov Dance Theatre’s awarded the 2015 Green Room Award for and 2017 Dance Australia Critics Survey for granted a position as a trainee with Sydney 2009 season in San Francisco. Bernhard joined ‘Female Dancer’ and a nomination for the 2015 being a ‘Dancer to Watch’. Follow Holly on Dance Company for 2016 where performed in Sydney Dance Company in 2010. Helpmann Award for ‘Best Female Dancer’. Instagram @hollyjamiedoyle CounterMove featuring Rafael Bonachela’s Jesse made her choreographic debut in SDC'S Lux Tenebris. Nelson was named in the 2017 Chloe Leong 2016 New Breed season. In 2017 Jesse was Janessa Dufty Dance Australia Critics' Choice Survey as 'Most Chloe started dancing at the age of six at named 'Most Outstanding Dancer' in the Dance Janessa is of Australian and Filipino heritage. Outstanding Dancer' and 'Dancer To Watch'. He Sydney’s Brent Street studios, and later Australia Critics' Choice Survey. She received a scholarship to attend the officially joined the Company in 2016. studied at Lindfield’s Ecole Ballet and Dance Queensland Dance School of Excellence where Theatre. In 2010 she completed three Emily Seymour she finished her senior studies and gained Fiona Jopp (Associate Artist) years training at London’s Rambert School Emily Seymour began her ballet studies at the

her Royal Academy of Dance Solo Seal Award. Fiona was born on the Gold Coast and began of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. Chloe Tanya Pearson Classical Coaching Academy sydneydancecompany.com At the age of 18 she continued her dance her training at The Gold Coast City Ballet and moved to Barcelona in 2012 to join the junior and All Starz Performing Arts Studio, in Sydney, development at the New Zealand School of went on to study at the Palucca Schule in contemporary company IT Dansa under the Australia. After placing as a finalist in the Youth Dance (NZSD), majoring in Contemporary. After Dresden and the Royal Consertavtorium in direction of Catherine Allard. During her two America Grand Prix in 2012, Emily joined the completing her diploma at the NZSD, Janessa The Hague.She has danced with Michael years with the Company she performed works Houston Ballet II at age 16. She was a member joined New Zealand’s acclaimed Black Grace Clark Company, Bonachela Dance Company, by Rafael Bonachela, Alexander Ekman, Ohad of Houston Ballet II for two years and joined Dance Company. Janessa joined Sydney Dance Emanuel Gat Dance and Javier de Frutos. Naharin and Sidi Labi Cherkaoui. Chloe joined the Houston Ballet Company as an Apprentice Company in 2009. She has been named in the Fiona created, so much doesn’t matter, for Sydney Dance Company in 2015. She won in 2016. Emily joined the West Australian 2012, 2014 and 2017 Dance Australia Critics Sydney Dance Company New Breed 2015 the 2015 Helpmann Award for ‘Best Female Ballet as a Young Artist, where she performed Survey for ‘Most Outstanding Dancer’. season. She performed in the Sydney Dance Dancer’ for her performance in William works by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and many Company collaboration with Art Gallery of NSW Forsythe’s Quintett. Follow Chloe on instagram more. Emily joined Sydney Dance Company in for Sydney Festival Nude Live in 2017, and @chloeleong February 2018 and her first performance with toured with Crazy Times 2017 as dancer and the Company will be at the Théâtre National rehearsal director. In 2016 and 2017 Fiona de Chaillot in Paris, followed by Sydney Dance featured in Lucas Jervies’ project for Art and Company’s European Spring Tour. Her About Hidden Sydney. first performance in Australia will be in May with ab [intra].

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Todd Sutherland Chloe Young (trainee)

Todd Sutherland was born in Queensland and for New Breed was named 'Best New Work' in Chloe Young graduated from Sydney Dance #SDC received his dance training at the Australian the 2017 Dance Australia Critics' Choice Survey Company’s Pre-Professional Year in 2017 I Ballet School. Todd is an accomplished Follow Petros on Instagram @petrostreklis and joined the Company as Trainee in 2018. ntra gymnast, having been the Queensland Chloe’s first onstage performance with the All-round State Champion from 1999-2001 and Josephine Weise Company was in Rafael Bonachela’s award- also a member of the Australian Gymnastics Originally from Queensland, Josephine winning works Frame Of Mind and Lux Tenebris Team. In 2004, Todd toured with the Dancer’s commenced her dance training at the Pamela during the Company’s South America Tour to Company (Australian Ballet) before accepting Marshall Academy of Dance in Hervey Bay. In Chile and Colombia in 2018. Chloe graduated a contract with Walt Disney Productions for 2013 she graduated from the Queensland from Queensland National Ballet’s Advanced performances in Tokyo, Japan. In 2006 he Dance School of Excellence. In 2014, Josephine Diploma in Elite Performance in 2016. joined Queensland Ballet where he remained undertook full-time study as part of Sydney until the end of 2010. Todd has been in Sydney Dance Company’s inaugural Pre-Professional Victor Zarallo Dance Company since 2011 and has performed Year program, and was selected to tour with the Originally from Barcelona, Victor began in numerous works by Rafael Bonachela and Company on a two-month understudy contract competing in Ballroom Dancing from the age also William Forthsyth's Quintet and Alexander performing 2 One Another in Western Australia, of nine, and was awarded Spanish National Ekman's Cacti. He recently was awarded ‘Most Queensland and regional New South Wales. In Champion at age fourteen. At the age of fifteen Outstanding Dancer’ for Bonachela's Lux 2015 Josie was offered an official traineeship years Victor began studying Ballet at the John Tenebris in Dance Australia's Critics Survey. with the Company, which saw her perform in Cranko School in Stuttgart, Germany, before Inside There Falls, Frame of Mind and De Novo. joining the Royal Ballet School in London, Petros Treklis Josephine officially joined the Company in 2016. England, where he graduated in 2008. Victor Born and raised in Melbourne, Petros moved joined the Scottish Ballet in 2008 and was

to London to train at Laban Conservatoire, Charmene Yap promoted to soloist in 2014. During this time sydneydancecompany.com graduating in 2010 with a BA (Hons) in After graduating from Western Australian Victor danced in Cinderella (The Prince) Contemporary Dance and then going on to Academy of Performing Arts with a Bachelor choreographer Christopher Hampson, Swan join Tavaziva Dance for several years. Other of Arts in 2006, Charmene worked with Lake (The Prince) choreographer David performance work includes: appearing as a Dancenorth, Chunky Move, Tasdance, Lucy Dawson, Peirrot Lunaire. Choreographer guest artist with Watkins Dance, working with Guerin Inc and numerous choreographers. Glen Tetley, Jiri Kylian 1420, and The Five IJAD on their project In-Finite Space, as well Joining Sydney Dance Company in 2010, Tangos choreographer Hans van Manen, as dancing for Place Prize Winner Riccardo Charmene has won multiple awards including amongst others. Victor moved to Australia and Buscarini and Taiwanese Choreographer Ho ‘Best Female Dancer’ for the 2012 Helpmann joined Sydney Dance Company in 2018. His Hsiaomei for the ArtsCross 2013 Project. Since Awards and ‘Outstanding Performance by firstperformance with the Company will be 2014, Petros has been a member of Sydney a Female Dancer’ for the 2013 Australian Frame of Mind, Lux Tenebris and Wildebeest Dance Company under the Artistic Directorship Dance Awards for her performance in Rafael as part of the 2018 Europe Tour. of Rafael Bonachela, performing works by Bonachela’s 2 One Another. She was awarded Andonis Foniadakis, Gabrielle Nankivell, the 2014 Helpmann Award for ‘Best Female William Forsythe, Alexander Ekman, Larissa Dancer’ for her performance in Rafael McGowen, Kristina Chan, Gideon Obarzanek, Bonachela’s 2 in D Minor. Charmene made Jacopo Godani, Shian Law and Rafael her choreographic debut with Do We for New Bonachela. Petros' work 'The Art of Letting Go' Breed 2014.

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Jane Freudenstein Deputy Executive Director CRM & Ticketing Manager Davide Di Giovanni Physiotherapists Pedro Greig #SDC Kiera Grant Sean Radcliffe Heath Wilder Holly Doyle Ashlea-Mary Cohen I Mark Hassell Janessa Dufty Marko Becejski Sydney Dance Company ntra Catriona Mordant Producer Marketing Manager Nelson Earl April-Rose Ferris The Wharf, Pier 4 Beau Neilson Dominic Chang Zena Morellini Fiona Jopp (Associate Artist) 15 Hickson Road Emma-Jane Newton Bernhard Knauer Company Teachers Dawes Point NSW 2000 Chrissy Sharp Executive Assistant Marketing Coordinator Chloe Leong Cathie Goss Carla Zampatti AC Tanya Veselcic Anne Brito Jesse Scales Simonne Smiles Join the Conversation Aishlinn McCarthy (maternity Emily Seymour Lisa Griffiths #SDCIntra Patron Programming Coordinator cover) Todd Sutherland Kristina Chan sydneydancecompany.com Darcey Bussell DBE Kerry Thampapillai Petros Treklis Emily Amisano Julie Grayland Marketing Assistant Josephine Weise Sara Black Facebook Ambassadors (maternity cover) Amelia Zhou Charmene Yap Brook Stamp sydneydanceco Judy Crawford Chloe Young (Trainee) Lucas Jervies Youtube Bee Hopkins Accountant Publicist Victor Zarallo Noah Gumbert sydneydancecompany Jules Maxwell Melissa Sim Alexandra Barlow Rani Luther Instagram Andrea Briody @sydneydanceco Payroll Assistant Resident Multi-Media Artist Producation Eileen Hall Twitter Carina Mision Pedro Greig Philipe Klaus (accompanist) @sydneydanceco Technical Director Business Consultant Director of Education and Guy Harding Pre-Professional Year Course

Bruce Cutler Outreach Director sydneydancecompany.com Caroline Spence Stage Manger Linda Gamblin Development Director Simon Turner Zoë Cobden-Jewitt Education Coordinator Pre-Professional Year Course Emma Powell-El Gammal Producation Technician Coordinator Business Development Jacob Williams (maternity Tony McCoy Omer Astrachan Manager cover) Kate Munnelly Head Mechanist John Shedden Dance Studios Philanthropy Manager Michelle Boyle Costume department Public Programs Manager Marianne Close Polly Brett Events Manager & Fiona Holley Development Coordinator Alesia Jelbart Director, Dance Classes Rohan Morris Sheryl Pilkinton Ramon Doringo

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ab [intra] is supported by Up to $5,000 Annual Partner Program Kiera Grant Clare Munnelly Julie Godfrey Sydney Dance Company’s Andrew and Emma Gray Paris Neilson and Bradford Gorman and Commissioning Fund Annalise Fairfax Performance Partners Memocorp Australia Pty Ltd Todd Buncombe Dean Fontana Ken Howison $20,000+ Erin Ostadal and the late David Park John Griffiths and Platinum Partners Agata Kenna Billy Ostadal Matthew and Fiona Playfair Beth Jackson Erin Ostadal and the late Liliana Caputo and Mr and Mrs McCullagh Peter Reeve and Judi Hausmann Julian Knights AO and Billy Ostadal Jason Pantzer peckvonhartel architects Jaycen Fletcher Gabrielle Iwanow Lizanne Knights peckvonhartel architects Manuela Darling-Gansser and Rebel Penfold-Russell OAM Ruth Ritchie Family Fund David Jonas and

Jules Maxwell Ezekiel Solomon AM Michael Darling John Prescott AC and Kellie and Warryn Robertson Desmon Du Plessis #SDC The Neilson Foundation Allegra Spender and John and Frances Ingham Jennifer Prescott Rossi Foundation Elias and Jana Juanas I Carla Zampatti Foundation Mark Capps Sarah and Robby Ingham Morna Seres and Ian Hill Penelope Seidler AM Agata Kenna ntra Janine Stewart Ian and Wendy Macoun Dick and Pip Smith Peter and Victoria Shorthouse Les Kennedy $20,000+ Vanepe Pty Ltd Susan Maple-Brown AM and Turner Bianca Spender Jennifer Kwok Di Yeldham The late Robert Alastair J M Walton Mark Stanbridge Macquarie Group Foundation Manuela Darling-Gansser and Maple-Brown AO Yang Yang Leslie Stern Susie Manfred and Michael Darling Sydney Dance Company’s Sandra McCullagh (in tribute Anonymous (5) Lorraine Tarabay and Hunter McPherson Partners provide the to my mum) Nick Langley Andrew and Del McGuiness $10,000+ vital support we need to Rob and Cath Mead Duet Partners $5,000+ Victoria Taylor Rany Moran commission new works, share Nelson Meers Foundation Alden Toevs and Judi Wolf CA Scala and DB Studdy The Agnew Family them with audiences around Karen Moses Arab Bank Australia Turnbull Foundation Ezekiel Solomon AM Pam and Doug Bartlett Australia and overseas, grow Beau Neilson and Juliet Ashworth David Vitek Allegra Spender and Black Diamondz our education program and Jeffrey Simpson Colin Bell and Judy and Sam Weiss Mark Capps Property Concierge support emerging talent. We Kerr Neilson Donna-May Bolinger Barbara Wilby and Stedmans Paul Brady and Christine Yip thank all our Partners for their Roslyn Packer AC Andrew Cameron AM Christopher Joyce Vanepe Pty Ltd Jillian Broadbent AO and generosity. Jean-Marc and Kirsten Carriol Ray Wilson OAM John S Walton AM Olev Rahn Studio Partners $10,000+ Peter Chadwick Adam Worling Public Relations Sarah Whyte John and Frances Ingham Platinum Partners Robert Crossman Di Yeldham Yates Family Sarah and Robby Ingham The Agnew Family Mike Dixon and Dee De Bruyn Ursula Zaoui Anonymous (6) Memocorp Australia Pty Ltd Robert Albert AO and Pam and Doug Bartlett Suellen and Ron Enestrom Anonymous (7)

Elizabeth Albert Black Diamondz Property James and Jacqui Erskine Rehearsal Partners sydneydancecompany.com $5,000+ The Balnaves Foundation Concierge Paul and Roslyn Espie Dance Partners $2,000+ $1,000+ Crown Resorts Foundation Paul Brady and George Frazis Colin Bell and Julian Knights AO and Christine Yip Kay Freedman and the late ADFAS Sydney Lenore and the late Donna-May Bolinger Lizanne Knights Jillian Broadbent AO and Ian Wallace Ralph Ashton Ross Adamson Liliana Caputo and Jules Maxwell Olev Rahn Ian Galloway and Paul Bedbrook Antoinette Albert Jason Pantzer Naomi Milgrom AO Peter and Liz Brownie Linda Treadwell Andrew Bird and Jana Bartsch Jane and Andrew Clifford The Neilson Foundation Janice and Tony Burke Mark Hassell Alexandra Holcomb Bird Ian Belgiorno-Zegna Judy Crawford Judith Neilson AM Brett Clegg and Rose Herceg John and Susan Blue Carrie and Steve Bellotti Suellen and Ron Enestrom Packer Family Foundation Annabel Hepworth Fraser Hopkins Philip and Catherine Brenner Benmill Pty Ltd and George Frazis Gretel Packer Jane and Andrew Clifford Jackson Family and Friends Jane Bridge JB NO3 Pty Ltd Kiera Grant Thyne Reid Foundation Jade and Richard Coppleson Tina and Mark Johnson Sue Cato and Vaughan Busby Berg Family Foundation Mark Hassell The Wales Family Foundation Judy Crawford John Kaldor AO Vitek Czernuszyn and Natalie Best John Kaldor AO Carla Zampatti Foundation Cullman Family Fund Marina and Richard Leong Deborah Thomas Celia and Eckhart Bischoff Nikki and Paul McCullagh Mary Zuber Dr Michelle Deaker William Manning Annalise Fairfax Antony Bullimore Bianca Spender Susie Dickson and Alexandra Martin in memory Donella and Quintin Freeman Wayne M Burns and Alden Toevs and Judi Wolf Martin Dickson AM of Lloyd Martin AM Margaret Gibbs Kean Onn See Turner David Fite and Danita Lowes Carina Martin Belinda Gibson Catherine Campbell Yang Yang Richard and Jane Freudenstein Jane McCallum Girgensohn Foundation Michael Chisholm

26 27 Sydney Dance Company Sydney Dance Company Partners Partners

Janine Collins Ensemble Partners Kate Richardson and Sydney Dance Company’s Take Brett Clegg and Bequests Alexandra Considine $250–$999 Chris Marrable A Step Campaign Annabel Hepworth Rob Coombe Mark Royle Jane and Richard Freudenstein The Estate of C.R. Adamson Jennifer Deslandes Dr Cynthia à Beckett and Norman R Scott Sydney Dance Company has Cullman Family Fund The Estate of Patricia Jane Douglass AM Gordon Smith Jann Skinner embarked on an ambitious David Mathlin Cameron-Stewart Carmel Dwyer Annie and Doug Aitken Emma and Duncan Snodgrass Capital Campaign that will Sandra McCullagh The Estate of Janet Fischer Kate Fleming ArchMove Collective Adam Spencer and see the Company cement its Ezekiel Solomon AM The Estate of Patricia Leehy Jacqui Galbraith and Marco Belgiorno-Zegna AM Yana Podroubaeva position as one of the world’s The Estate of Peggy

Michael Harvey and Angela Greta Thomas leading contemporary dance Rafael Bonachela and Watson (Raczkowska) #SDC Amber Gooley Belgiorno-Zegna Guy Thompson companies. As we approach Joe Lawler I Rosemary Grant Bill and Marissa Best David Thomson our 50th anniversary in 2019, Michelle Boyle ntra Ben Harlow Minnie Biggs Bob and Lanné Tucker we are taking steps to secure Jillian Broadbent AO and Dance Noir John Head Margaret Blok Natalie Vanstone the next 50 years through a Olev Rahn Sue Hoopmann David Bluff Jennifer and Wayne White $7M campaign to both enable Janice and Tony Burke Sydney Dance Company would Charles and Bodycentric John and Gay Woods the transformation of our Alexandra Considine like to thank the 2018 Dance Joey Hue-Williams Di and Rodd Boland Alan and Flavia Young physical space and underpin Jade and Richard Coppleson Noir Committee. Sarah Hue-Williams Sarah Brasch Matthew Yovich our creativity for decades Anne Dunn and Patricia Buick Co-chairs: Michael Ihlein Jacqui Burton Anonymous (8) to come. We would like to Donna and Carl Jackson Pam Bartlett and Allen Iu and Matty Burton acknowledge our leadership Tina and Mark Johnson Peter Reeve Bernadette Walker Kerrie Cai 2018 Pre-Professional Year and founding supporters of the Longreach Ownership Trust Committee: Tony Jones Stephen Chase and Scholarships Take A Step Capital Campaign. Macquarie Group Foundation Jean-Marc Carriol Virginia Judge Colette Baini Andrew Messenger Jane Clifford Josephine Key and Ian Breden Min Li Chong Tim Fairfax AC NSW Government Rohan Morris Debbie Coffey Joanne Killen Deeta Colvin Doug Hall Foundation Lizzi Nicoll Vitek Czernuszyn Susan Kirby Wendy and Steve Cooper The Wales Family Foundation The Neilson Foundation Nick Read Georgina Fergusson Carol Lewis and Ian Ashby Mikaela Dery Scholarship The Wales Family Foundation Margaret Payn Alexa Haslingden David Lindberg Dr Suresh de Silva and Mary Zuber Scholarship Jane and Andrew Clifford Peter Reeve and Donna Jackson Heidi and Jordan Martin Dr Katja Beitat Simon Mordant AM Jaycen Fletcher Tina Johnson Robert McCuaig Tanya Diesel and Catriona Mordant Chrissy Sharp Terry Kaljo

Dr Gary Nicholls and Chris and Raquel Ellis Carla Zampatti AC Leslie Stern Jan Logan sydneydancecompany.com Niall Barlow Robyn and John Fennell Victoria Taylor Jane McCallum Jacqueline O'Brien Marilyn Anne Forbes Julian Knights AO and Susan Wynne Christina Voitenko Dr Lisa O'Brien Helen Forrester Lizanne Knights Judi Wolf Marion Pascoe Elizabeth and Ben Gilbert Greeba Pritchard Gabrielle Gollan Pam and Doug Bartlett Geoff Selig Rachael Hagget Kiera Grant and Mark Tallis Fiona Sinclair and Peter King Helen and Gordon Heslop Mark Hassell Alida Stanley Nabeel and Marian Ibrahim The Alexandra and Ross Steele AM The Teresa Johnson Lloyd Martin Family Janine Stewart Ballet School Foundation Howard and Mary Tanner Christopher and Nicky Joye Karen Moses Stuart Thomas Robert Kidd Mary Zuber Mike Thompson Simon Oaten Sylvia Tooth Mrs Gail O’Brien AO Peter and Liz Brownie Anonymous (9) Stephen O'Rourke Judi Wolf and Alden Toevs Cathy J Poulden Paul Brady and Christine Yip Jeannine Rheinberger

28 29 Roslyn Packer Theatre Walsh Bay Front of House Manager Arts Centre Melbourne Executive Group

#SDC Alex Plavsic PO Box 7585 Claire Spencer, Chief Executive Officer I Board of Directors St Kilda Road Deirdre Blythe, Chief Operating Officer ntra Roslyn Packer Theatre Box Office Manager Melbourne VIC 8004 Leanne Lawrence, Executive Director, Ian Narev (Chair) Telephone: (03) 9281 8000 Human Resources Ann Johnson (Deputy Chair) John Calvi Facsimile: (03) 9281 8282 Fiona Poletti, Executive Director, External The Hon Bruce Baird AM Website: artscentremelbourne.com.au Engagement Mark Lazberger Head of Technical – Roslyn Packer Theatre Melanie Smith, Executive Director, Patrick McIntyre Victorian Arts Centre Trust Performing Arts Heather Mitchell Kevin Sigley Richard Zimmermann, Executive Director, Gretel Packer James MacKenzie (President) Philanthropy Daniel Petre AO Head Mechanist Frankie Airey Beau Vigushin, Executive Director, Annette Shun Wah Paul Barker Customer Experience Kip Williams Stephen Mason Warwick Bray Catherine McClements Donor Acknowledgment Artistic Director Head Fly Operator Andrew Myer AM Ian Roberts We extend heartfelt thanks to our Arts Angels, Kip Williams Chris Fleming Nora Scheinkestel whose generosity, loyalty and commitment Helen Silver AO ensure as many Victorians as possible can Executive Director Deputy Fly Operator experience the joy of the performing arts here in Melbourne

Patrick McIntyre Jason Edwards sydneydancecompany.com Corporate Partners Acknowledgement Senior Producer Head Electrician Our sincere thanks to our partners for their Ben White Andrew Tompkins ongoing support and contribution to Arts Centre Melbourne. Venue Manager–Roslyn Packer Theatre Deputy Head Electrician Conditions of Entry Kerry Ireland Harry Clegg Arts Centre Melbourne welcomes everyone Venue Coordinator Head Sound to enjoy our spaces. For our full Conditions of Entry visit www.artscentremelbourne.com.au Milica Pajic Kevin White

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Sydney Dance Company is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts and funding advisory body.

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Chair: Ms Louise Douglas sydneydancecompany.com Board members: Ms Robyn Hendry, Ms Virginia Haussegger AM Chief Executive Officer Ms Harriet Elvin Chief Finance Officer Mr Ian Tidy

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Canberra Theatre Centre is administered Antipodes Water, Committee for Sydney, Contemporary Hotels, The Dorchester Collection, by the Cultural Facilities Corporation, which Jan Logan, Pages, Poho Flowers, Relais & Chateaux, Resolution X, Samsonite, Stedmans, receives funding assistance through the ACT Tattersalls Club. Government’s Minister for the Arts. The contribution of our sponsors and partners is essential to the operation of Sydney Dance Company and the creation of new works. We offer tailored packages of unique partnership benefits.

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