Current Works

Rafael Bonachela's

we unfold

“We unfold will be a revelation of the new look SDC.” Jacqueline Pascoe, Dance Australia

Sydney Dance Company’s Artistic Director created his second major work following the unstoppable success of 360o, Bonachela’s premiere work for Sydney Dance Company, which burst onto the dance scene in 2008, introducing its choreographer to Australian audiences. The undeniable chemistry between Rafael Bonachela’s combustible choreographic language and the dancers of Sydney Dance Company produces art where rigour, freedom, strength and precision are deftly combined.

Sydney Morning Herald image gallery

“His dance is like a spray of bullets that hit their target.”

The Times, London

“It is modern art engraved in steel; thrilling in its newness…. Rafael Bonachela is of the moment..”

Dance Europe

“Bonachela delivers a work that is breathtakingly, almost painfully beautiful.”

Daily Telegraph, Sydney

“His language, gender blind and fuelled by disparate energies, has a muscularity that ebbs and flows… an underlying sexuality that gives handsome physical presence to the jagged emotional intelligence.”

The Times, London

Dates & Venues

  • May 5th – 8th 2010 Canberra, Australia Canberra Theatre Centre, The Playhouse
  • May 11th – 12th 2010 Albury, Australia Albury Entertainment Centre
  • May 14th – 15th 2010 Wagga Wagga, Australia Wagga Wagga Civic Centre
  • May 18th – 19th 2010 Griffith, Australia Griffith Regional Theatre
  • June 8th – 8th 2010 Shanghai, People's Republic of China World Expo
  • July 23rd – 24th 2010 Newcastle, Australia Civic Theatre Newcastle
  • November 9th – 13th 2010 Melbourne, Australia The Arts Centre, Playhouse Buy Tickets
  • November 18th – 27th 2010 Brisbane, Australia QPAC, Playhouse Buy Tickets

Reviews

  • “Rafael makes his dancers move beyond what they think are their physical capabilities and it’s extremely rewarding,”

    Ken Longworth, Newcastle Herald