Overview
In January 2018, the Company toured to the prestigious Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil, performing at the Cultural Centre CA660 Itaú CorpBanca in Santiago, Chile, presenting Rafael Bonachela’s award winning Frame of Mind and Lux Tenebris.
In April, the Company undertook a European Spring Tour of the exhilarating triple bill of Rafael Bonachela’s Lux Tenebris, Cheng Tsung-lung’s Full Moon and Gabrielle Nankivell’s Wildebeest, with Sydney Dance Company’s first ever performances at Théâtre National de la Danse Chaillot, Paris. The Company also performed at the Belgrade Dance Festival in Serbia, at Cankarjev Dom Cultural and Congress Centre in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and in Germany at the Movimentos Festival, Wolfsburg.
Sydney Dance Company received grant funding for the 2018 South American Tour from the Council on Australian Latin America Relations of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Dates
In Serbia, Slovenia and Paris, the Company performed Lux Tenebris, Full Moon and Wildebeest:
Serbia
Belgrade Dance Festival
Serbian National Theatre, Novisad
3 April 8pm
Sava Center, 15th Belgrade Dance Festival & Dance Council of Serbia,
4 April 8pm
Slovenia
Gallus Hall, Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre, Ljubljana
Sat 7 April, 7.30pm
France
Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris
11-13 April 2018
In Germany the Company performed Lux Tenebris, Frame of Mind and Wildebeest:
Germany
Movimentos Festival
Autostadt, Wolfsburg
19 – 21 April at 8pm,
22 April at 6pm
21 April 11.30am
In South America, the Company performed Frame of Mind and Lux Tenebris:
Chile
Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil, performing at the Cultural Centre CA660 Itaú CorpBanca in Santiago
19 – 21 January 2018
Colombia
Bogota, performing at Teatro Mayor, Julio Mario Santo Domingo
26 -27 January
Creatives
Lux Tenebris
Choreography: Rafael Bonachela
Composer: Nick Wales
Lighting Design: Benjamin Cisterne
Frame of Mind
Choreography: Rafael Bonachela
Designer: Ralph Myers
Costume Design Realisation: Aleisa Jelbart
Lighting Designer: Benjamin Cisterne
Music: Original compositions by Bryce Dessner in a recording by the Kronos Quartet
Dramaturgical Consultant: Samuel Webster
Full Moon
Choreographer Cheng Tsung-lung
Composer Lim Giong
Lighting Damien Cooper
Costumes Fan Huaichih
Wildebeest
Choreographer: Gabrielle Nankivell
Costume Designer: Fiona Holley
Sound Designer & Composer: Luke Smiles, motion laboratories
Lighting Designer: Benjamin Cisterne
Media
Lux Tenebris
“★★★★ Utterly mesmerising”– The Guardian
“★★★★★ The dancing is astonishing!” – ArtsHub
“★★★★½ A winning combination that, on the one hand provokes and entertains, and on the other confronts and moves its audience in a dazzling evening of dance.” – Limelight Magazine
Frame Of Mind
“★★★★…Bonachela’s Frame of Mind delivers an emotionally engaging and overarching choreographic mastery…electric” – Daily Review
“★★★★ 1/2” – The Age
“Frame of Mind delivers captivating scores, wonderful choreography and dance fuelled with emotion..” – ABC Arts
“Frame of Mind drills a hole into your heart and brain and makes you leak emotion in that sneaky, visceral way only dance can do.” – Concrete Playground Sydney
Full Moon
“In Cheng Tsung-lung’s luminous Full Moon there is a profound sense of eternal motion, and not only because Cheng’s piece has thrilling eruptions of speed and full-bodied swirls. There is vivid life even in moments of what appears to be complete stillness.” – The Australian
“It’s a splendid feast for eyes and ears with Fan Huai-chih’s gorgeously flowing costumes, Lim Giong’s gleaming commissioned score and Cooper’s magical lighting.” – The Australian
“World class and deserves a place in permanent repertoire . . . an experience as enjoyable and enigmatic as the full moon.” – Daily Telegraph
Wildebeest
“Nankivell sees beauty and wonder in the primitive, animalistic self, even with danger as a constant companion. Every molecule of the body is vibrantly alert, a state brilliantly captured by Bernhard Knauer at the beginning of Wildebeest and Janessa Dufty at the end” – The Australian
“★★★★ Every time you might think the Sydney Dance Company performers have reached their peak, they push their abilities up another notch” – Sydney Morning Herald
“The standing ovation was testament to the dancer’s skill and beauty of movement and its power to move, entrance and transport the viewer to something less ordinary.” – Daily Telegraph
“The dancers move their incredible bodies in such a way that one forgets they are human.” – The Plus Ones
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