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We are delighted to be presenting the world Anne Dunn premiere of Rafael Bonachela’s ab [intra] to Executive Director audiences here at home, with Sydney playing host to the performances that will launch a national tour taking in Melbourne, Darwin, Perth, Canberra and regional centres across WA, QLD and NSW.

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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

5 Rafael Bonachela

Note ab [intra] is the first full length work I have made It has been a pleasure to work with each of my in six years and I wanted to capture the energy collaborators on this piece. Dance relies so and drive I feel each time I walk into the studio. heavily on the intersection of creative ideas and trust, both in the studio and in the creation I think about ab [intra] (latin for from within) as of the stage environment that surrounds the an energy transfer between the internal and movement. Thank you to Damien Cooper, the external. For me it is more than the external David Fleischer and Nick Wales for the results expression of internal concepts, in this dance of your individual elements and the results of sphere it is a representation of energy – an your collective efforts. I truly appreciated the energy derived from the interaction of these process as well as the outcome. two facets of our worlds.

My innate human and personal instincts play a major role in my creativity; they feed through the entire process from the point of inspiration, collaborations at every level and right through to the living moments of the final performance. I wanted to try to capture this internal instinctive process and make an external representation of it and so ab [intra] was born.

The creative process started as a series of improvisations where I asked the dancers to be in the moment with each other, to feel and listen - to use their instincts and their impulses and then seek to capture those moments in writing. Those written phrases became the direction for a physical movement sequence, a script for dance, an energy transfer from the thought to the body.

The dancers are an integral part of my creative process and they give life and form to my instincts and creative impulses every day. ab [intra] for me is a work that is derived from 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 Choreographer & Artistic Director

Biography

Rafael Bonachela has been the Artistic Director Bonachela’s internationally recognised talent #SDC and resident choreographer for Sydney Dance has seen him work not only with contemporary I Company since 2009. In that time he has dance at the highest level but also with artists ntra created 14 works for Sydney Dance Company’s from popular culture, such as Kylie Minogue, repertoire. In addition, he has remounted Tina Turner, Sarah Blasko and Katie Noonan as outstanding repertoire from Bonachela Dance well as leading fashion designers Dion Lee Company and commissioned Australian and and Toni Maticevski. Such collaborative efforts international choreographers to create original reflect the inspiration he finds and utilises from works for the Company. culture today. In February 2013, Bonachela was honoured with an Officer’s Cross of the Order of Bonachela is a multi-award winning Civil Merit by His Majesty the King of Spain. choreographer both nationally & internationally. In 2015 Frame of Mind won the Helpmann Bonachela began his early dance training in Awards for ‘Best Choreography’ and ‘Best Barcelona and was a member of the legendary Dance Work’. His work 2 One Another won the Rambert Dance Company, both as a dancer ‘Best Ensemble’ Award in the 2012 Green and Associate Choreographer. He established Room Awards and the 2013 Australian Dance the Bonachela Dance Company (BDC) in 2006 Award for ‘Outstanding Achievement in and was a resident artist at the Southbank Choreography’ and ‘Outstanding Performance Centre in London. As a choreographer, he has by a Company’. been commissioned to make works for Candoco, George Piper Dances, ITDANSA, Danza

In 2012 Bonachela curated the international Contemporanea de Cuba, Dresden Frankfurt sydneydancecompany.com festival Spring Dance for Sydney Opera House. Dance Company and Dance Works Rotterdam In 2013 he developed the choreography amongst others. for artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla’s work Revolving Door, which was part of the acclaimed live performance art exhibition 13 Rooms. For Sydney Festival 2015, he collaborated with artist Mira Calix to choreograph for the Inside There Falls installation at Carriageworks. More recently, he created Nude Live, a dance installation amongst the extraordinary collection of artworks that made up the exhibition “Nude-Art from the Tate Collection”.

7 Nick Wales Composer

Note The early stages for the creation of ab [intra] saw This movement slowly builds and recedes into Rafael and I searching for additional music to an introspective, lament like transition for solo accompany my compositions. The second cello piano and electronics. Vasks' Allegro Moderato concerto Klābātne / Presence by Peteris Vasks boldly bounds forward with its neo-classical featuring the cellist Sol Gabetta stood out to rhythmic vitality and cadenza like solo climax by us as posessing great passion, immediacy and cellist Sol Gabetta. drive and we decided to incorporate the first and second movements into ab [intra]. The final ‘coda’ of ab [intra] again features Julian Thompson with a small string orchestra. Our decision to use Vasks' concerto informed As a final layer to the music, I collaborated with my initial musical choices, my first gut reaction songwriter Jack Colwell for a song to conclude was to work with the Australian cellist Julian the work. The poetic verse Jack and I dreamed Thompson. Together, we recorded fragments up was an ever present reference point for my of cello material for me to build the opening creative process as a whole: two movements of the work. The opening bars of Vasks' concerto with it’s almost lonely ‘col from within legno’ and ‘pizzicato’ motifs informed some of are we born these initial recordings. from within are we without ourselves ab [intra] begins with the textual pulsations and lamentation of a solitary cello building to an the pulse of others vibrating expansive almost landscape-like symphonic just like the lark ascending wall of sound. Pizzicato cello samples feature in pulls us closer to the trees the opening two movements, driving the back to each other work forward into ‘activation’ with the introduction of darker electronic and leave this world percussive passages, counterbalanced with untouched visceral string textures. The electronica gives every stone way to Vasks' “Cadenza - Andante” with its unturned, untouched, unturned beautiful and passionate builds, lush beauty and rich sonority.

The fourth movement of ab [intra] features piano, intricate percussion and organic electronica. I was interested in exploring ideas around soft anticipation, building ecstatic states and the inward sources of strength one can achieve through quietly looking within.

8 Biography

Written and Produced by Nick Wales Nick Wales’ visceral, immersive and progressive #SDC with music is a hybrid between classical forms, I Featured Cello – Julian Thompson electronic and popular music. ab [intra] is Nick’s ntra Drums and Percussion – Bree van Reyk eighth collaboration with Rafael Bonachela and Electric Violin – Imogen Jones his ninth with Sydney Dance Company. Recent Voice / song collaborator – Jack Colwell commissions include collaborations with Additional electronics and choreographer Marina Mascarelle for Ballet de programming – Dane Yates l'Opéra de Lyon, visual artist Lauren Brincat for String Orchestra Leader – Veronique Serret the 2016 Sydney Bienalle and Hayden Fowler String Orchestra conductor – Roland Peelman for the Adelaide Bienalle of Australian Art 2018. Music Mix and sound engineering – Bob Scott Nick has worked with choreographer Shaun Additional sound engineering – Phil Punch Parker on a number of works including the Helpmann nominated score for AM I, Happy as Additional music Larry and the outdoor works Spill and Trolleys, Peteris Vasks, Klātbātne – Presence: both commissioned for the 2012 London Concerto No. 2 for cello and string orchestra cultural Olympiad. He has scored a number (movement I. Cadenza – Andante cantablle, of film and television projects including the movement II. Allegro moderato) feature film Around the Block. By permission of Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd, exclusive agents for Schott Music Ltd of Mainz While Wales' contemporary dance scores are Soloist – Sol Gebetta both challenging and abstract, his pop

Orchestra – Amsterdam Sinfonietta sensibilities are undeniable. Traversing all sydneydancecompany.com Recording – Sony Music genres as a founding member of ARIA nominated classical-fusion band CODA, he Movement 1 – ‘Birth’ – Nick Wales has also collaborated with Sarah Blasko Movement 2 – ‘Activation’ – Nick Wales for a number of years, writing the orchestral Movement 3 – ‘Cadenza’ – Andante’ Peteris arrangements for her 2012 album I Awake and Vasks feat. Sol Gabtta & made contributions to her most recent albums the Amsterdam Sinfonietta Depth of Field (2018) and Eternal Return (2016). Movement 4 – ‘Ecstatic Gestures’ – Nick Wales The pair also composed the Sydney Dance Movement 5 – ‘Allegro Moderato’ Peteris Vasks Company score Emergence together for Rafael feat. Sol Gabtta & the Amsterdam Sinfonietta Bonachela. Emergence was released as a Movement 6 – Within – Nick Wales and soundtrack in 2015 via the Create Control label. Jack Colwell

9 10 Damien Cooper Lighting Design

Note Biography

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.

11 David Fleischer Costume & Production Design

Note Biography ab [intra] is a work of breadth and scale. From David is a set and costume designer, working its earliest inception, my collaboration with with various theatre, dance and opera Rafael has continued to focus on both the companies across Australia including Sydney 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, 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.

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13 14 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.

Dancers

Holly Doyle Nelson Earl NSW born Holly Doyle trained under the Nelson was born in Sydney, where he began direction of Gilli O’Connell, Tibor Horvath, most of his dance training at Newtown High Matthew Shilling, Anton Bogdanovych, Matt School of the Performing Arts. He went on to Trent, Kristina Chan and various others. She achieve the Marcus Santos ‘Outstanding Male studied dance at Newtown High School of Dancer’ award in 2013. After graduating from the Performing Arts, receiving extensive NHSPA, Nelson undertook a year of full time contemporary and classical training. Holly dance training at Sydney Dance Company’s joined the Company in 2013 for De Novo and Pre-Professional Year where he received a full has since performed in 2 One Another, Project scholarship from Mary Zuber. Nelson followed Rameau, 2 in D Minor, Scattered Rhymes, Sydney Dance Company on their regional Frame of Mind, New Breed, Triptych and Australian tour where he performed in De Novo. CounterMove. Holly was named in the 2014 At the end of his full time year Nelson was and 2017 Dance Australia Critics Survey for granted a position as a trainee with Sydney being a ‘Dancer to Watch’. Follow Holly on Dance Company for 2016 where performed in Instagram @hollyjamiedoyle CounterMove featuring Rafael Bonachela’s Lux Tenebris. Nelson was named in the 2017 Janessa Dufty Dance Australia Critics' Choice Survey as 'Most Janessa is of Australian and Filipino heritage. Outstanding Dancer' and 'Dancer To Watch'. He She received a scholarship to attend the officially joined the Company in 2016. Queensland Dance School of Excellence where she finished her senior studies and gained Fiona Jopp (Associate Artist) her Royal Academy of Dance Solo Seal Award. Fiona was born on the Gold Coast and began At the age of 18 she continued her dance her training at The Gold Coast City Ballet and development at the New Zealand School of went on to study at the Palucca Schule in Dance (NZSD), majoring in Contemporary. After Dresden and the Royal Consertavtorium in completing her diploma at the NZSD, Janessa The Hague.She has danced with Michael joined New Zealand’s acclaimed Black Grace Clark Company, Bonachela Dance Company, Dance Company. Janessa joined Sydney Dance Emanuel Gat Dance and Javier de Frutos. Company in 2009. She has been named in the Fiona created, so much doesn’t matter, for 2012, 2014 and 2017 Dance Australia Critics Sydney Dance Company New Breed 2015 Survey for ‘Most Outstanding Dancer’. season. She performed in the Sydney Dance Company collaboration with Art Gallery of NSW for Sydney Festival Nude Live in 2017, and toured with Crazy Times 2017 as dancer and rehearsal director. In 2016 and 2017 Fiona featured in Lucas Jervies’ project for Art and About Hidden Sydney.

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Bernard Knauer Jesse Scales

Born in Germany, Bernhard attended the Born in Hobart, Jesse is from Adelaide where #SDC Palucca School in Dresden before completing she trained with Terry Simpson and was I his dance training at The Royal Conservatory awarded her RAD Solo Seal. She received ntra in The Hague. In 2005 Bernhard was invited to full scholarships to study with Complexions join the ballet of Theater Görlitz in Germany. Contemporary Ballet in New York and He then performed with the State Theatre of Nederlands Dans Theatre in The Hague and Tyrol. Bernhard joined the Dutch National Ballet went on to major in classical ballet at the New for the 2008 season of Toer van Schayk and Zealand School of Dance. Since joining Sydney Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker and Mouse King. Dance Company in 2012, Jesse performed He performed in Yuri Zhukov’s Pioneer Plaques a feature role in the Australian premiere of 2009 and Hlín Diego Hjálmarsdóttir’s Caught In William Forsythe’s Quintett for which she was The Square as part of Zhukov Dance Theatre’s awarded the 2015 Green Room Award for 2009 season in San Francisco. Bernhard joined ‘Female Dancer’ and a nomination for the 2015 Sydney Dance Company in 2010. Helpmann Award for ‘Best Female Dancer’. Jesse made her choreographic debut in SDC'S Chloe Leong 2016 New Breed season. In 2017 Jesse was Chloe started dancing at the age of six at named 'Most Outstanding Dancer' in the Dance Sydney’s Brent Street studios, and later Australia Critics' Choice Survey. studied at Lindfield’s Ecole Ballet and Dance Theatre. In 2010 she completed three Emily Seymour years training at London’s Rambert School Emily Seymour began her ballet studies at the

of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. Chloe Tanya Pearson Classical Coaching Academy sydneydancecompany.com moved to Barcelona in 2012 to join the junior and All Starz Performing Arts Studio, in Sydney, contemporary company IT Dansa under the Australia. After placing as a finalist in the Youth direction of Catherine Allard. During her two America Grand Prix in 2012, Emily joined the years with the Company she performed works Houston Ballet II at age 16. She was a member by Rafael Bonachela, Alexander Ekman, Ohad of Houston Ballet II for two years and joined Naharin and Sidi Labi Cherkaoui. Chloe joined the Houston Ballet Company as an Apprentice Sydney Dance Company in 2015. She won in 2016. Emily joined the West Australian the 2015 Helpmann Award for ‘Best Female Ballet as a Young Artist, where she performed Dancer’ for her performance in William works by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and many Forsythe’s Quintett. Follow Chloe on instagram more. Emily joined Sydney Dance Company in @chloeleong February 2018 and her first performance with the Company will be at the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris, followed by Sydney Dance Company’s European Spring Tour. Her first performance in Australia will be in May with ab [intra].

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Todd Sutherland Todd Sutherland was born in Queensland and for New Breed was named 'Best New Work' in received his dance training at the Australian the 2017 Dance Australia Critics' Choice Survey Ballet School. Todd is an accomplished Follow Petros on Instagram @petrostreklis gymnast, having been the Queensland All-round State Champion from 1999-2001 and Josephine Weise also a member of the Australian Gymnastics Originally from Queensland, Josephine Team. In 2004, Todd toured with the Dancer’s commenced her dance training at the Pamela Company (Australian Ballet) before accepting Marshall Academy of Dance in Hervey Bay. In a contract with Walt Disney Productions for 2013 she graduated from the Queensland performances in Tokyo, Japan. In 2006 he Dance School of Excellence. In 2014, Josephine 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 Dance Company since 2011 and has performed Year program, and was selected to tour with the in numerous works by Rafael Bonachela and Company on a two-month understudy contract also William Forthsyth's Quintet and Alexander performing 2 One Another in Western Australia, Ekman's Cacti. He recently was awarded ‘Most Queensland and regional New South Wales. In Outstanding Dancer’ for Bonachela's Lux 2015 Josie was offered an official traineeship Tenebris in Dance Australia's Critics Survey. with the Company, which saw her perform in Inside There Falls, Frame of Mind and De Novo. Petros Treklis Josephine officially joined the Company in 2016. Born and raised in Melbourne, Petros moved to London to train at Laban Conservatoire, Charmene Yap graduating in 2010 with a BA (Hons) in After graduating from Western Australian Contemporary Dance and then going on to Academy of Performing Arts with a Bachelor join Tavaziva Dance for several years. Other of Arts in 2006, Charmene worked with performance work includes: appearing as a Dancenorth, Chunky Move, Tasdance, Lucy guest artist with Watkins Dance, working with Guerin Inc and numerous choreographers. IJAD on their project In-Finite Space, as well Joining Sydney Dance Company in 2010, as dancing for Place Prize Winner Riccardo Charmene has won multiple awards including Buscarini and Taiwanese Choreographer Ho ‘Best Female Dancer’ for the 2012 Helpmann Hsiaomei for the ArtsCross 2013 Project. Since Awards and ‘Outstanding Performance by 2014, Petros has been a member of Sydney a Female Dancer’ for the 2013 Australian Dance Company under the Artistic Directorship Dance Awards for her performance in Rafael 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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Chloe Young (trainee)

Chloe Young graduated from Sydney Dance #SDC Company’s Pre-Professional Year in 2017 I and joined the Company as Trainee in 2018. ntra Chloe’s first onstage performance with the Company was in Rafael Bonachela’s award- winning works Frame Of Mind and Lux Tenebris during the Company’s South America Tour to Chile and Colombia in 2018. Chloe graduated from Queensland National Ballet’s Advanced Diploma in Elite Performance in 2016.

Victor Zarallo Originally from Barcelona, Victor began competing in Ballroom Dancing from the age of nine, and was awarded Spanish National Champion at age fourteen. At the age of fifteen years Victor began studying Ballet at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart, Germany, before joining the Royal Ballet School in London, England, where he graduated in 2008. Victor joined the Scottish Ballet in 2008 and was

promoted to soloist in 2014. During this time sydneydancecompany.com Victor danced in Cinderella (The Prince) choreographer Christopher Hampson, Swan Lake (The Prince) choreographer David Dawson, Peirrot Lunaire. Choreographer Glen Tetley, Jiri Kylian 1420, and The Five Tangos choreographer Hans van Manen, amongst others. Victor moved to Australia and joined Sydney Dance Company in 2018. His firstperformance with the Company will be Frame of Mind, Lux Tenebris and Wildebeest as part of the 2018 Europe Tour.

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Karen Moses (Chair) Artistic Director Development Assistant Pam Bartlett Rafael Bonachela Heloise Cahill Jillian Broadbent Peter Brownie Executive Director Philanthropy Assistant Jean-Marc Carriol Anne Dunn Carina Martin Brett Clegg Jane Freudenstein Deputy Executive Director CRM & Ticketing Manager Kiera Grant Sean Radcliffe Heath Wilder Mark Hassell Catriona Mordant Producer Marketing Manager Beau Neilson Dominic Chang Zena Morellini Emma-Jane Newton Chrissy Sharp Executive Assistant Marketing Coordinator Carla Zampatti AC Tanya Veselcic Anne Brito Aishlinn McCarthy (maternity Patron Programming Coordinator cover) Darcey Bussell DBE Kerry Thampapillai Julie Grayland Marketing Assistant Ambassadors (maternity cover) Amelia Zhou Judy Crawford Bee Hopkins Accountant Publicist Jules Maxwell Melissa Sim Alexandra Barlow

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Business Consultant Director of Education and Bruce Cutler Outreach Caroline Spence Development Director Zoë Cobden-Jewitt Education Coordinator Emma Powell-El Gammal Business Development Jacob Williams (maternity Manager cover) Kate Munnelly

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The Company Dancers Treatment and Care Customer Service Assistant Alys Gwillim Rehearsal Director Company Doctor Chris Aubrey Dr. Michael Berger Rehearsal Photography Pedro Greig Juliette Barton Sports Doctor Izzac Carroll Dr. James Lawrence Dancer Portraits Ariella Casu Ben Symons

Davide Di Giovanni Physiotherapists Pedro Greig #SDC Holly Doyle Ashlea-Mary Cohen I Janessa Dufty Marko Becejski Sydney Dance Company ntra Nelson Earl April-Rose Ferris The Wharf, Pier 4 Fiona Jopp (Associate Artist) 15 Hickson Road Bernhard Knauer Company Teachers Dawes Point NSW 2000 Chloe Leong Cathie Goss Jesse Scales Simonne Smiles Join the Conversation Emily Seymour Lisa Griffiths #SDCIntra Todd Sutherland Kristina Chan sydneydancecompany.com Petros Treklis Emily Amisano Josephine Weise Sara Black Facebook Charmene Yap Brook Stamp sydneydanceco Chloe Young (Trainee) Lucas Jervies Youtube Victor Zarallo Noah Gumbert sydneydancecompany Rani Luther Instagram Andrea Briody @sydneydanceco Producation Eileen Hall Twitter Philipe Klaus (accompanist) @sydneydanceco Technical Director Guy Harding Pre-Professional Year Course

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Costume department Public Programs Manager Marianne Close Polly Brett Fiona Holley Alesia Jelbart Director, Dance Classes Sheryl Pilkinton Ramon Doringo

Wardrobe Maintenance Sylvia Rusin

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ab [intra] is supported by Up to $5,000 Annual Partner Program Sydney Dance Company’s Commissioning Fund Annalise Fairfax Performance Partners Ken Howison $20,000+ Platinum Partners Agata Kenna Erin Ostadal and the late Liliana Caputo and Julian Knights AO and Billy Ostadal Jason Pantzer Lizanne Knights peckvonhartel architects Manuela Darling-Gansser and Jules Maxwell Ezekiel Solomon AM Michael Darling The Neilson Foundation Allegra Spender and John and Frances Ingham Carla Zampatti Foundation Mark Capps Sarah and Robby Ingham Janine Stewart Ian and Wendy Macoun $20,000+ Vanepe Pty Ltd Susan Maple-Brown AM and Di Yeldham The late Robert Manuela Darling-Gansser and Maple-Brown AO Michael Darling Sydney Dance Company’s Sandra McCullagh (in tribute Partners provide the to my mum) $10,000+ vital support we need to Rob and Cath Mead commission new works, share Nelson Meers Foundation The Agnew Family them with audiences around Karen Moses Pam and Doug Bartlett Australia and overseas, grow Beau Neilson and Black Diamondz our education program and Jeffrey Simpson Property Concierge support emerging talent. We Kerr Neilson Paul Brady and Christine Yip thank all our Partners for their Roslyn Packer AC Jillian Broadbent AO and generosity. Olev Rahn Studio Partners $10,000+ John and Frances Ingham Platinum Partners Sarah and Robby Ingham The Agnew Family Memocorp Australia Pty Ltd Robert Albert AO and Pam and Doug Bartlett Elizabeth Albert Black Diamondz Property $5,000+ The Balnaves Foundation Concierge Crown Resorts Foundation Paul Brady and Colin Bell and Julian Knights AO and Christine Yip Donna-May Bolinger Lizanne Knights Jillian Broadbent AO and Liliana Caputo and Jules Maxwell Olev Rahn Jason Pantzer Naomi Milgrom AO Peter and Liz Brownie Jane and Andrew Clifford The Neilson Foundation Janice and Tony Burke Judy Crawford Judith Neilson AM Brett Clegg and Suellen and Ron Enestrom Packer Family Foundation Annabel Hepworth George Frazis Gretel Packer Jane and Andrew Clifford Kiera Grant Thyne Reid Foundation Jade and Richard Coppleson Mark Hassell The Wales Family Foundation Judy Crawford John Kaldor AO Carla Zampatti Foundation Cullman Family Fund Nikki and Paul McCullagh Mary Zuber Dr Michelle Deaker Bianca Spender Susie Dickson and Alden Toevs and Judi Wolf Martin Dickson AM Turner David Fite and Danita Lowes Yang Yang Richard and Jane Freudenstein

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Kiera Grant Clare Munnelly Julie Godfrey Andrew and Emma Gray Paris Neilson and Bradford Gorman and Memocorp Australia Pty Ltd Todd Buncombe Dean Fontana Erin Ostadal and the late David Park John Griffiths and Billy Ostadal Matthew and Fiona Playfair Beth Jackson Mr and Mrs McCullagh Peter Reeve and Judi Hausmann peckvonhartel architects Jaycen Fletcher Gabrielle Iwanow Rebel Penfold-Russell OAM Ruth Ritchie Family Fund David Jonas and

John Prescott AC and Kellie and Warryn Robertson Desmon Du Plessis #SDC Jennifer Prescott Rossi Foundation Elias and Jana Juanas I Morna Seres and Ian Hill Penelope Seidler AM Agata Kenna ntra Dick and Pip Smith Peter and Victoria Shorthouse Les Kennedy Turner Bianca Spender Jennifer Kwok Alastair J M Walton Mark Stanbridge Macquarie Group Foundation Yang Yang Leslie Stern Susie Manfred and Anonymous (5) Lorraine Tarabay and Hunter McPherson Nick Langley Andrew and Del McGuiness Duet Partners $5,000+ Victoria Taylor Rany Moran Alden Toevs and Judi Wolf CA Scala and DB Studdy Arab Bank Australia Turnbull Foundation Ezekiel Solomon AM Juliet Ashworth David Vitek Allegra Spender and Colin Bell and Judy and Sam Weiss Mark Capps Donna-May Bolinger Barbara Wilby and Stedmans Andrew Cameron AM Christopher Joyce Vanepe Pty Ltd Jean-Marc and Kirsten Carriol Ray Wilson OAM John S Walton AM Peter Chadwick Adam Worling Public Relations Sarah Whyte Robert Crossman Di Yeldham Yates Family Mike Dixon and Dee De Bruyn Ursula Zaoui Anonymous (6) Suellen and Ron Enestrom Anonymous (7)

James and Jacqui Erskine Rehearsal Partners sydneydancecompany.com Paul and Roslyn Espie Dance Partners $2,000+ $1,000+ George Frazis Kay Freedman and the late ADFAS Sydney Lenore and the late Ian Wallace Ralph Ashton Ross Adamson Ian Galloway and Paul Bedbrook Antoinette Albert Linda Treadwell Andrew Bird and Jana Bartsch Mark Hassell Alexandra Holcomb Bird Ian Belgiorno-Zegna Rose Herceg John and Susan Blue Carrie and Steve Bellotti Fraser Hopkins Philip and Catherine Brenner Benmill Pty Ltd and Jackson Family and Friends Jane Bridge JB NO3 Pty Ltd Tina and Mark Johnson Sue Cato and Vaughan Busby Berg Family Foundation John Kaldor AO Vitek Czernuszyn and Natalie Best Marina and Richard Leong Deborah Thomas Celia and Eckhart Bischoff William Manning Annalise Fairfax Antony Bullimore Alexandra Martin in memory Donella and Quintin Freeman Wayne M Burns and of Lloyd Martin AM Margaret Gibbs Kean Onn See Carina Martin Belinda Gibson Catherine Campbell Jane McCallum Girgensohn Foundation Michael Chisholm

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Janine Collins Ensemble Partners Kate Richardson and Alexandra Considine $250–$999 Chris Marrable Rob Coombe Mark Royle Jennifer Deslandes Dr Cynthia à Beckett and Norman R Scott Jane Douglass AM Gordon Smith Jann Skinner Carmel Dwyer Annie and Doug Aitken Emma and Duncan Snodgrass Kate Fleming ArchMove Collective Adam Spencer and Jacqui Galbraith and Marco Belgiorno-Zegna AM Yana Podroubaeva Michael Harvey and Angela Greta Thomas Amber Gooley Belgiorno-Zegna Guy Thompson Rosemary Grant Bill and Marissa Best David Thomson Ben Harlow Minnie Biggs Bob and Lanné Tucker John Head Margaret Blok Natalie Vanstone Sue Hoopmann David Bluff Jennifer and Wayne White Charles and Bodycentric John and Gay Woods Joey Hue-Williams Di and Rodd Boland Alan and Flavia Young Sarah Hue-Williams Sarah Brasch Matthew Yovich Michael Ihlein Jacqui Burton Anonymous (8) Allen Iu and Matty Burton Bernadette Walker Kerrie Cai 2018 Pre-Professional Year Tony Jones Stephen Chase and Scholarships Virginia Judge Colette Baini Josephine Key and Ian Breden Min Li Chong Tim Fairfax AC Joanne Killen Deeta Colvin Doug Hall Foundation Susan Kirby Wendy and Steve Cooper The Wales Family Foundation Carol Lewis and Ian Ashby Mikaela Dery Scholarship David Lindberg Dr Suresh de Silva and Mary Zuber Scholarship Heidi and Jordan Martin Dr Katja Beitat Robert McCuaig Tanya Diesel Dr Gary Nicholls and Chris and Raquel Ellis Niall Barlow Robyn and John Fennell Jacqueline O'Brien Marilyn Anne Forbes Dr Lisa O'Brien Helen Forrester Marion Pascoe Elizabeth and Ben Gilbert Greeba Pritchard Gabrielle Gollan Geoff Selig Rachael Hagget Fiona Sinclair and Peter King Helen and Gordon Heslop Alida Stanley Nabeel and Marian Ibrahim Ross Steele AM The Teresa Johnson Janine Stewart Ballet School Howard and Mary Tanner Christopher and Nicky Joye Stuart Thomas Robert Kidd Mike Thompson Simon Oaten Sylvia Tooth Mrs Gail O’Brien AO Anonymous (9) Stephen O'Rourke Cathy J Poulden Jeannine Rheinberger

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Sydney Dance Company’s Take Brett Clegg and Bequests A Step Campaign Annabel Hepworth Jane and Richard Freudenstein The Estate of C.R. Adamson Sydney Dance Company has Cullman Family Fund The Estate of Patricia embarked on an ambitious David Mathlin Cameron-Stewart Capital Campaign that will Sandra McCullagh The Estate of Janet Fischer see the Company cement its Ezekiel Solomon AM The Estate of Patricia Leehy position as one of the world’s The Estate of Peggy

leading contemporary dance Rafael Bonachela and Watson (Raczkowska) #SDC companies. As we approach Joe Lawler I our 50th anniversary in 2019, Michelle Boyle ntra we are taking steps to secure Jillian Broadbent AO and Dance Noir the next 50 years through a Olev Rahn $7M campaign to both enable Janice and Tony Burke Sydney Dance Company would the transformation of our Alexandra Considine like to thank the 2018 Dance physical space and underpin Jade and Richard Coppleson Noir Committee. our creativity for decades Anne Dunn and Patricia Buick Co-chairs: to come. We would like to Donna and Carl Jackson Pam Bartlett and acknowledge our leadership Tina and Mark Johnson Peter Reeve and founding supporters of the Longreach Ownership Trust Committee: Take A Step Capital Campaign. Macquarie Group Foundation Jean-Marc Carriol Andrew Messenger Jane Clifford NSW Government Rohan Morris Debbie Coffey Lizzi Nicoll Vitek Czernuszyn The Neilson Foundation Nick Read Georgina Fergusson The Wales Family Foundation Margaret Payn Alexa Haslingden Jane and Andrew Clifford Peter Reeve and Donna Jackson Simon Mordant AM Jaycen Fletcher Tina Johnson and Catriona Mordant Chrissy Sharp Terry Kaljo

Carla Zampatti AC Leslie Stern Jan Logan sydneydancecompany.com Victoria Taylor Jane McCallum Julian Knights AO and Susan Wynne Christina Voitenko Lizanne Knights Judi Wolf

Pam and Doug Bartlett Kiera Grant and Mark Tallis Mark Hassell The Alexandra and Lloyd Martin Family Foundation Karen Moses Mary Zuber

Peter and Liz Brownie Judi Wolf and Alden Toevs Paul Brady and Christine Yip

29 Roslyn Packer Theatre Walsh Bay Front of House Manager

Alex Plavsic Board of Directors Roslyn Packer Theatre Box Office Manager Ian Narev (Chair) Ann Johnson (Deputy Chair) John Calvi The Hon Bruce Baird AM Mark Lazberger Head of Technical – Roslyn Packer Theatre Patrick McIntyre Heather Mitchell Kevin Sigley Gretel Packer Daniel Petre AO Head Mechanist Annette Shun Wah Kip Williams Stephen Mason

Artistic Director Head Fly Operator

Kip Williams Chris Fleming

Executive Director Deputy Fly Operator

Patrick McIntyre Jason Edwards

Senior Producer Head Electrician

Ben White Andrew Tompkins

Venue Manager–Roslyn Packer Theatre Deputy Head Electrician

Kerry Ireland Harry Clegg

Venue Coordinator Head Sound

Milica Pajic Kevin White

Building Services Manager Stage Door Attendant

Barry Carr Errol Robertson

30 Arts Centre Melbourne Executive Group

#SDC PO Box 7585 Claire Spencer, Chief Executive Officer I St Kilda Road Deirdre Blythe, Chief Operating Officer ntra Melbourne VIC 8004 Leanne Lawrence, Executive Director, Telephone: (03) 9281 8000 Human Resources Facsimile: (03) 9281 8282 Fiona Poletti, Executive Director, External Website: artscentremelbourne.com.au Engagement Melanie Smith, Executive Director, Victorian Arts Centre Trust Performing Arts Richard Zimmermann, Executive Director, James MacKenzie (President) Philanthropy Frankie Airey Beau Vigushin, Executive Director, Paul Barker Customer Experience Warwick Bray Catherine McClements Donor Acknowledgment Andrew Myer AM Ian Roberts We extend heartfelt thanks to our Arts Angels, Nora Scheinkestel whose generosity, loyalty and commitment Helen Silver AO ensure as many Victorians as possible can experience the joy of the performing arts here in Melbourne sydneydancecompany.com Corporate Partners Acknowledgement

Our sincere thanks to our partners for their ongoing support and contribution to Arts Centre Melbourne.

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Bruce Carmichael

Administration

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Cultural Facilities Corporation

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Acknowledgement

Canberra Theatre Centre is administered by the Cultural Facilities Corporation, which receives funding assistance through the ACT Government’s Minister for the Arts.

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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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