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Sydney Dance Company Partners ab [intra] ab Sydney Dance Company #SDC I ntra sydneydancecompany.com 1 Sydney Dance Company 2018 Season Purchase a 2 show subscription and save 15% Forever & Ever New Breed SUBSCRIBE NOW sydneydancecompany.com Until one sees the whole picture, can we truly appreciate quality? Art stimulates, challenges and rewards us. It helps make our world better. By supporting the business of arts, institutions can grow, innovate and deliver their ambitious programmes and make art accessible to everyone. And that’s how we make the art world work better. ey.com/au/arts #BetterQuestions 2 © 2018 Ernst & Young, Australia. All Rights Reserved. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation. ED 0518. IN1831468. Welcome message It is always a pleasure to see the response I would also particularly like to thank our #SDC Rafael and dancers of the Company receive corporate and private supporters. The choice I on the stages of the world, and it reaffirms you make to support Sydney Dance Company ntra our role as cultural ambassadors for Australia. is wholeheartedly appreciated. The many Audiences around the globe have already organisations, individuals and foundations play had the pleasure of watching Sydney Dance a vital role in allowing the Company to continue Company perform in 2018, with sold out to bring ground breaking world premiere performances in tours across South America performances to audiences, first here in and Europe and now it's Australia’s turn. Australia and then to take them to the world. 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. The performances will be supported by education activities including workshops and school matinees, which will reach over 3000 Until one sees the whole young people - helping to instil the love of dance sydneydancecompany.com picture, can we truly and creativity in the lives of young people appreciate quality? across the country. Art stimulates, challenges and Each and every facet of the work that Sydney rewards us. It helps make our world Dance Company undertakes, be it on the stage, better. By supporting the business in a school hall or online with our digital learning of arts, institutions can grow, resources, is made possible by the hard work innovate and deliver their ambitious programmes and make art accessible of the team at Sydney Dance Company and the to everyone. And that’s how we make generous support of our partners. I would like to the art world work better. thank the Australian Government for its support ey.com/au/arts #BetterQuestions delivered through the Australia Council for the Arts, and the NSW Government for the support it delivers through Create NSW. 3 © 2018 Ernst & Young, Australia. All Rights Reserved. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation. ED 0518. IN1831468. 4 ab [intra] Credits 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.
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