Sydney Dance Company Katie Noonan & ACO2 Triptych 25 Sept — 10 Oct FLY THROUGH SINGAPORE FAST-FORWARD TO EUROPE New Breed 8–13 December Carriageworks Meet the new breed of Australian dance creators Book now sydneydancecompany.com carriageworks.com.au Made possible by 2—3 25.09—10.09 Triptych Roslyn Packer Theatre Walsh Bay Part 1: Simple Symphony (22 minutes) Part 2: Les Illuminations (30 minutes) Interval (20 minutes) FLY THROUGH SINGAPORE Part 3: Variation 10 (34 minutes) FAST-FORWARD TO EUROPE Welcome to Triptych, a program in three This year we are delivering 79 performances parts. Sydney Dance Company is delighted to to audiences from Germany to Hobart and be collaborating with the Australian Chamber many places in between. By the end of 2015 Orchestra once more. Our dancers have in Australia alone, we will have performed revelled in the opportunity to work alongside in 14 cities and towns across six states and C the talented musicians of A O2 under the lead territories. violin of Thomas Gould. Commissioning new works for the Australian We are also thrilled to welcome Katie Noonan stage is an important part of what Sydney back to share the stage with us. This is Dance Company does and the support the third season Katie has performed with of our partners, private, government and Sydney Dance Company and we are shortly corporate, make tonight’s performance to also undertake our inaugural international and every performance possible and we tour together with performances in Hong wholeheartedly thank them for that support. Kong, in conjunction with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, then onto Germany Anne Dunn where we will work with the German Executive Director Philharmonic Orchestra Rhineland-Palatinate to deliver Triptych in its European Premiere. Over the course of 2015 we have expanded the reach of our education and outreach activities and by the end of the year will have helped over 6,000 young people to explore their creativity through dance. #SDCTriptych Credits 4—5 Music Program Choreography Triptych is presented with Rafael Bonachela the support of the 2015 Part One Sydney Dance Company Benjamin Britten Music Commissioning Fund. Simple Symphony, Benjamin Britten Op. 4 (1933-1934) Platinum Partner Vocals The Neilson Foundation, Boisterous Bourrée Katie Noonan Carla Zampatti Foundation Playful Pizzicato Sentimental Sarabande Musicians $10,000+ C Frolicsome Finale A O 2 Paul Brady and Christine Yip, Jade and Richard Coppleson, Part Two Costumes Judy and Robin Crawford, Benjamin Britten Toni Maticevski Manuela Darling-Gansser Les Illuminations, and Michael Darling, Beau Op. 18 (1939) Stage and Lighting Design Neilson and Jeffrey Simpson, After poems by Arthur Benjamin Cisterne Judith Neilson, Gretel Packer, Rimbaud (1886) Roslyn Packer AO, Alastair J Vocals: Katie Noonan* Guest Director and Violin M Walton *sung in French Thomas Gould $5,000+ Fanfare Violin Jean Marc Carriol, Rose Villes Harry Bennetts1 Herceg, Naomi Milgrom Phrase and Antique Amy Brookman1 AO and John Kaldor AM, Royauté Brielle Clapson2 Paris Neilson and Todd Marine Peter Clark3 Buncombe, Erin Ostadal and Interlude Madeleine Jevons1 the late Billy Ostadal, Yashian Being Beauteous Christina Katsimbardis3 Schauble and Tanju Dagli, Parade Jenny Khafagi Penelope Seidler AM, Bianca Départ Monique Lapins3 Spender, Waypoint Group, Holly Piccoli3 Di Yeldham Part Three Benjamin Britten Viola Up to $5,000 Variations on a Theme of Giovanni Pasini4 Jillian Broadbent AO and Frank Bridge, Op. 10 (1937) Martin Alexander1 Olev Rahn, Antony Bullimore, William Clark 3 Rosemary Grant, Nicky and Introduction and Theme Christopher Joye, Sarah Variation 1: Adagio Cello and Robby Ingham, Skye Variation 2: March Daniel Yeadon5 and David Leckie, Mark Variation 3: Romance Ruben Palma1 Stanbridge, Ross Steele AM Variation 4: Aria Italiana Anna Pokorny 3 Variation 5: Bourrée classique Double Bass Variation 6: Wiener Waltzer Muhamed Mehmedbasic 3 Variation 7: Moto perpetuo #SDCTriptych Variation 8: Funeral March 1. 2015 ACO Emerging Artist Variation 9: Chant 2. Courtesy Sydney Symphony Orchestra 3. ACO Emerging Artist alumni Variation 10: Fugue and 4. Courtesy Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra Finale 5. Australian Chamber Orchestra Rafael Bonachela Choreographer Photo: Peter Greig Note The seed of Britten’s Triptych came from Variation 10, based on Britten’s Variations singer Katie Noonan’s imagining of his Les on a Theme of Frank Bridge, allows an Illuminations set to dance. We brought her expansion from duets to the ensemble, vision to life, paired with a dance piece the use of the full company in parts and to Britten’s Simple Symphony in 2013 in variations of ten, and provides a continued the centenary of his birth, and now, with opportunity to celebrate Britten’s legacy. Variation 10, a full program is born that celebrates the beauty and depth of this For Variation 10, my inspiration comes superb composer. directly from the music, a remarkable work. Listening to it, it is impossible not to The beautiful Simple Symphony is about feel the changing colours in tonality, the playfulness, the irresistible charm of youth, changing worlds, and the changing pace a juvenile spirit and innocence. The titles and feeling. What I love: this is a work of of its movements include the adjectives contrasts, of dark and light, of sadness ‘boisterous’, ‘playful’ and ‘frolicsome’. This and happiness. It is ghostly, forceful, work sparked my inspiration and creative delicate, passionate, fun, intelligent and process with its sentimentality and array of playful. It has it all. To find a piece of music musical colours. that allows me to shift from intensity and passion to something delicate and playful, In contrast, Les Illuminations, contrary all that is present in the music: it is a joy, to its name, a dark opus, is a song cycle and so easy to work with. It’s almost as if it written in 1939 based on verse and poems were made to be danced. by Arthur Rimbaud. My choreography, a series of duets, was inspired by the world — Rafael Bonachela of Rimbaud’s poetry and imagery: the chaos of big cities, the theatricality of life, the tragic and painful aspects of beauty, the underworld and the savage parade of life. This world is dreamy, meditative and nostalgic with emotional intensity and erotic visions. Both Simple Symphony and Les Illuminations were created for dancers in pairs and couplings, intimate relationships of joy, betrayal and affection. I was interested in finding differing qualities in these pairings, each to reflect the emotional canvas of the music. 6—7 Biography Rafael Bonachela has been the Artistic Katie Noonan as well as leading fashion Director for Sydney Dance Company since designers Dion Lee and Toni Maticevski. 2009. He has created several pieces for Such collaborative efforts reflect the Sydney Dance Company including 360° inspiration he finds and utilises from (2008), we unfold (2009), 6 Breaths (2010), culture today. LANDforms (2011), 2 One Another (2012), Project Rameau (2012), Les Illuminations In February 2013, Rafael was honoured with (2013), Emergence (2013), 2 in D Minor an Officer’s Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (2014), Scattered Rhymes (2014) and by His Majesty the King of Spain. Frame of Mind (2015). In addition, he has remounted outstanding repertoire from Rafael began his early dance training Bonachela Dance Company such as Soledad in Barcelona and was a member of the and Irony of Fate (2010) and The Land of Yes legendary Rambert Dance Company, both as & The Land of No (2011). a dancer and Associate Choreographer. He established the Bonachela Dance Company Rafael’s Frame of Mind won the 2015 (BDC) in 2006. As a choreographer, he has Helpmann Awards for ‘Best Choreography’ been commissioned to make works for and ‘Best Dance Work’. 2 One Another won Candoco, George Piper Dances, ITDANSA, the ‘Best Ensemble’ Award in the 2012 Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Transitions Green Room Awards and the 2013 Australian Dance Company and Dance Works Dance Award for ‘Outstanding Achievement Rotterdam amongst others. in Choreography’ and ‘Outstanding Performance by a Company’. Read more at sydneydancecompany.com/artistic-director In 2013, Kaldor Public Art Projects brought Rafael on board to develop the choreography 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, Rafael collaborated with artist Mira Calix to choreograph for the Inside There Falls installation at Carriageworks. His internationally recognised talent has seen him work not only with contemporary #SDCTriptych dance at the highest level but also with artists from popular culture, such as Kylie Minogue, Tina Turner, Sarah Blasko and Music Note By Paul Kildea Benjamin Britten was raised on a rich if dedication of Antique, a sensuous setting standard English public-school diet of full of the sounds of a travelling street band Shakespeare and Tennyson, Coleridge and in celebration of male mythological beauty. Keats; the many songs he wrote in childhood (‘Thine eyes – those precious globes – glance – some good, many more constrained by slowly.’) Scherchen had competition: the his hymnbook harmonic vocabulary as tenor Peter Pears had befriended Britten at he developed as a composer – reflect this this time and would in the following year turn education. W. H. Auden changed this almost friendship into something more. overnight, introducing him in the late 1930s to Melville and Donne, the madhouse poems