"Meryl Tankard takes her place amongst those international choreographers who are giving new life to dance."
Frankfurter Allegemeine

"Meryl Tankard… astonishing, superb, disconcerting."
Le Figaro Magazine

Internationally acclaimed for the emotional punch packed into her inventive choreography, Meryl Tankard is one of Australia's finest contemporary artists. She continues to work around the world, with recent projects ranging from a sell-out Sydney Festival collaboration titled KAIDAN with Taiko drummers, to the new Broadway musical Tarzan.

Having leapt to fame in Europe with Pina Bausch, Meryl Tankard returned to Australia to create a dance aesthetic all her own. In her years with Australian Dance Theatre she created a dynamic, versatile company and her long list of acclaimed new work was immediately in demand throughout Europe and North America. Her large scale commissions, such as the Opening Ceremony for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, bear testimony to her imaginative range. Today, Meryl Tankard is recognised as an important artist whose work is imbued with imposing theatrical eloquence.

"Simply tremendous."
The Citizen

"Contemporary dance has a new star."
Sunday Times Magazine

"Unique, Kylie calls him, and she's right."
The Guardian

Born in Barcelona, Award winning London-based choreographer, Rafael Bonachela as been described by the Sunday Times Magazine as "the next big thing" and by ID magazine as among "the hottest of international talent." Rafael Bonachela describes himself as a movement junkie and the exploration and experimentation of pure movement is his motivation.

He has an impeccable pedigree, having been a stand-out dancer at Rambert Dance Company, where he went on to choreograph as many as 7 new works. Rafael Bonachela emerged as a choreographer committed to innovation. He is now director of his own Bonachela Dance Company.

Rafael moves seamlessly between the mainstream and the avant garde. Recent commissions include works for George Piper Dances, Dies de Dansa Festival Barcelona, Candoco, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, David Hughes Dance Company for the Edinburgh Festival, Dance Works Rotterdam, English Chamber Orchestra and Kylie Minogue's award- winning Fever Tour and the 2005 Showgirl Tour.

"Barton is clearly brilliant".
San Francisco Chronicle

"I thought that the audience was going to explode from their seats. Aszure Barton where have you been? The art of choreography needs you."
Vilage Voice

"Aszure Barton's work is something else entirely: a rare instance of dance that feels as if it were plucked straight from the choreographer's extremely specific imagination and set, full-grown, onstage."
The New York Times

"Barton creates moments of genuine emotional resonance. To say that she is worth watching would be something of an understatement." VOICEOFDANCE.COM

Aszure Barton is a New York-based, Canadian born choreographer and the director of her own dance troupe Aszure & Artists, founded in 2002. At present, Aszure Barton is Artist-in-Residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York, where she has created commissioned work for Mr. Baryshnikov's new performing company Hell's Kitchen Dance. Aszure also performs and tours with Mr. Baryshnikov's troupe, in works such as the acclaimed Come In, which she choreographed.

Described as the most innovative choreographer of her generation, Aszure Barton recently created choreography for the Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera. She has also made works for Benjamin Milliepied and Company, the Juilliard School, Les Ballets Jazz de MontrŽal (where she is also resident), Hubbard Street Dance and Transitions Dance Company in the UK. Acclaimed in Europe as well as North America, her choreography has been described as intensely musical, emotionally moving and structurally astonishing.