ORB Sydney Sydney Dance Dance Company Company 2 One Another Proudly taking 2 ONE ANOTHER to Shanghai later this month www.samsonite.com.au/red Sydney Dance Company New Breed 30 Nov – 9 Dec Carriageworks All tickets $35 BOOK NOW At the box office or via roslynpackertheatre.com.au carriageworks.com.au Made possible by: Welcome Message 2—3 Sydney Dance Company is pleased to welcome Reaching out to and engaging young people you to 2 One Another - a full length work by is integral to everything we do, and in 2017, Rafael Bonachela. Since it was created in 2012, our education and public programs continue 2 One Another has had an extraordinary touring to grow. Over the winter months, our teaching life, both in Australia and internationally. It artists have travelled extensively alongside seemed only right that we should celebrate its the Company dancers to deliver workshops 100th performance by bringing it back to the in schools throughout regional Australia, stage it premiered on. in parallel with our national tour across six states and territories. During this 2 This work has been warmly received by One Another season, a whole new group of audiences all over the world and we are secondary students will have the chance #SDC2OneAnother delighted that after this Sydney season, it to experience this remarkable work at a will have its Chinese premiere as part of the school matinee. 2017 Shanghai International Arts Festival. 2 One Another will be performed in Zhongshan Everything that Sydney Dance Company (The People’s) Park before the Company achieves and delivers around the country and takes to the stage of the Shanghai Grand across the world is made possible through the Theatre to present a double bill of Cacti support of our philanthropic and corporate and Lux Tenebris. partners and all tiers of government. Their contribution to our vision is invaluable and It is always a great pleasure for Sydney we extend our sincere thanks for their support. Dance Company to represent Australian culture on the international stage and the Anne Dunn success and extensive touring life of 2 Executive Director One Another is testament to the visionary commitment Sydney Dance Company’s family of supporters who help to make this, and all of our works, happen. The investment they make in our Commissioning Fund continues to return dividends far beyond an initial season. We are particularly grateful to those who helped us commission this piece in 2012, and all of those who continue to support this area of our work. sydneydancecompany.com 2 One Another 4—5 Credits Choreography Touring History Rafael Bonachela World Premiere at Sydney Theatre on 13 March 2012 Production and Costume Design, Creative Direction of Screen Content 2012 Sydney, NSW Tony Assness 2012 Melbourne, VIC 2012 Wollongong, NSW Original Music 2013 Adelaide, SA Nick Wales 2013 Alice Springs, NT 2013 Darwin, NT Lighting Design 2013 Lima Peru Benjamin Cisterne 2013 Guayaquill, Ecuador 2013 Bogota, Colombia Poet 2013 Guanajuato, Mexico Samuel Webster 2013 Irvine, California USA 2013 San Diego, California USA Costume Design Consultant 2013 Portland, Oregon USA Peter Simon Phillips 2013 Moscow, Russia 2014 Perth, WA #SDC2OneAnother Costume Design Realisation 2014 Mandurah, WA Fiona Holley 2014 Albany, WA 2014 Bunbury, WA Hair 2014 Geraldton, WA Troy Brennan 2014 Cairns, QLD Matthew Grevink 2014 Mackay, QLD Cain Ireland 2014 Rockhampton, QLD For BLÆC Sydney 2014 Townsville, QLD 2014 Gold Coast, QLD Executive Producer – Screen Content 2014 Port Macquarie, NSW Alastair Stephen 2014 Dubbo, NSW 2014 Bathurst, NSW Design Director – Screen Content 2014 Orange, NSW Finnegan Spencer 2014 Auckland, New Zealand 2015 Wolfsburg, Germany Producer – Screen Content 2015 Fürth, Germany Simone Clow Lead 3D Artist – Screen Content Kanin Phemayothin Winner of 2013 Australian Dance Awards: sydneydancecompany.com Rafael Bonachela for Most Outstanding Choreography | Charmene Yap for Most Outstanding Female Dancer | Sydney Dance Company for Most Outstanding Performance by a Company Winner of 2012 Green Room Awards: Sydney Dance Company for Best Ensemble | Best Female Dancer Winner of 2012 Helpmann Award: Charmene Yap for Best Female Dancer Rafael Bonachela Choreographer Note I am always fascinated by the interactions The feel of the piece is for me about creating between people and as I spend time in the a world of layers, both visual and metaphorical. studio with the dancers I can’t help but see Design and music are an integral part of them as a microcosm of broader human creating this world and again were completed interactions. As a group they spend so much through an iterative process that was time together that their relationships and reflective of the very idea of 2 One Another, interactions at times seem to be a whole that of the individual reacting and being world in itself. stimulated by others and the group. Reference material was contributed and shared between During the creative development phase of 2 the entire creative team and it has been a One Another, I invited poet and writer Samuel delight to build a work that intersects art Webster into the studio and asked him to write forms and processes so thoroughly. instinctively and with immediacy in response to what he was observing. I then used those Since its premiere five years ago, 2 One Another phrases and sentences as a basis for tasks has continued to grow and evolve. It has and explorations for creating movement. The been so wonderful to revisit this work to add text that Samuel created is very beautiful and more choreographic depth to it and to watch full of love and emotion and I sought to create the dancers breathe even more life into it. movement that explored all those intensities I am thrilled to be sharing it with you all again of human interaction. and I hope you enjoy. The outcome of the dance/text process is absorbed into the whole and apparent only in an abstracted manner through the inclusion of some of the phrases into the score. 6—7 Biography Rafael Bonachela has been the Artistic Bonachela’s internationally recognised Director and resident choreographer for talent has seen him work not only with Sydney Dance Company since 2009. In that contemporary dance at the highest level but time he has created 14 works for Sydney also with artists from popular culture, such Dance Company’s repertoire. In addition, as Kylie Minogue, Tina Turner, Sarah Blasko he has remounted outstanding repertoire and Katie Noonan as well as leading fashion from Bonachela Dance Company and designers Dion Lee and Toni Maticevski. Such commissioned Australian and international collaborative efforts reflect the inspiration choreographers to create original works he finds and utilises from culture today. for the company. #SDC2OneAnother In February 2013, Bonachela was honoured Bonachela is a multi-award winning choreo- with an Officer’s Cross of the Order of Civil grapher both nationally and internationally. Merit by His Majesty the King of Spain. In 2015 Frame of Mind won the Helpmann Awards for ‘Best Choreography’ and ‘Best Bonachela began his early dance training in Dance Work’. His work 2 One Another won Barcelona and was a member of the legendary the ‘Best Ensemble’ Award in the 2012 Rambert Dance Company, both as a dancer Green Room Awards and the 2013 Australian and Associate Choreographer. He established Dance Award for ‘Outstanding Achievement the Bonachela Dance Company (BDC) in 2006 in Choreography’ and ‘Outstanding and was a resident artist at the Southbank Performance by a Company’. Centre in London. As a choreographer, he has been commissioned to make works for In 2012 Bonachela curated the international Candoco, George Piper Dances, ITDANSA, festival, Spring Dance, for Sydney Opera Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Dresden House. In 2013 he developed the choreography Frankfurt Dance Company and Dance Works for artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Rotterdam, amongst others. Calzadilla’s work Revolving Door, which was part of the acclaimed live performance art Follow Rafael on Instagram @rafaelbonachela 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 sydneydancecompany.com amongst the extraordinary collection of artworks that made up Nude: Art from the Tate Collection. Tony Assness Production and Costume Design Note 2 One Another is about the experience of connecting and disconnecting – to be one, alone, singular. To know and experience the difference between solitude and loneliness. To feel whole or crushingly empty. To not connect or to forever lose a connection, or to feel connected even when that person is no longer there. It is something that is constantly happening to all of us. To be or to share with another initiates a whole different spectrum of emotions. To be part of a wider group, a smashing party, connecting or not to many multi-faceted networks which are there, ongoing, continuous, ending and beginning, with or without me. The intention of the production design of 2 One Another is to frame the action, while my intention as costume designer is to get out of the way of that action while simultaneously dressing it. A most fascinating part of the whole design process is how the costumes evolve. What does one clothe a dancer in, given that an audience is there to see limbs, torsos, hands and faces, feet, necks, spines, shoulder blades moving through space? What the dancer wears is not there to tell a story, these dancers are not characters, and covering their bodies with real clothes would be a waste of time. So what do the costumes mean? All I’m doing here is creating a second skin for each performer, one that is unique to each dancer’s body while at the same time visually connecting every body that is on stage to one another.