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Info, Dates & Prices
Dates & Times
17 December, 7:30pm
18 December, 6:30pm
Location Seymour Centre
Tickets $40 – $55
Duration Approximately 110 minutes with a 20 minute interval. Partial lockout applies.
Warnings
Theatrical haze and strobe lighting may be used throughout the performance.
Sydney Dance Company proudly presents PPY26 Revealed.
PPY26 Revealed celebrates the Pre-Professional Year cohorts of 2026 with works by prominent Australian-based and international choreographers Tobiah Booth-Remmers, Jill Crovisier, Lisa Maris McDonell, Melanie Lane and Hugo Poulet, alongside an excerpt from Project Rameau choreographed by Sydney Dance Company Artistic Director, Rafael Bonachela.
About Pre-Professional Year
Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year offers aspiring dancers from across Australia and New Zealand an immersive, full-time training experience alongside a world renowned company. As a Registered Training Organisation (RTO #45863), Sydney Dance Company delivers nationally recognised training within a professional contemporary dance environment.
Now in its second decade, PPY stands as a leader in contemporary dance education, bridging the gap between full-time study and professional practice. The program develops versatile, self assured and creatively empowered artists, ready to make their mark on national and international stages.
PPY26 Revealed
17 December, 7:30pm
18 December, 6:30pm
| Tickets | ||
|---|---|---|
| A Reserve | B Reserve | |
| Adult | $55 | $40 |
| Concession / Full Time Student / Pensioner / Senior / Children 12 years and under | $45 | $40 |
Program
Dates & Times
17 December, 7:30pm
18 December, 6:30pm
Location Seymour Centre
Tickets $40 – $55
Duration Approximately 110 minutes with a 20 minute interval. Partial lockout applies.
Warnings
Theatrical haze and strobe lighting may be used throughout the performance.
From Here attempts to reflect something of the people involved and the world around us. Through extensive improvisation and movement exploration, the performers bring their individual perspectives and ideas to the creative process. Over time, these explorations evolve into scenes and thematic arcs, where movement, music and composition intertwine, giving form to a shared artistic vision.
We hope you enjoy.
Choreographer: Tobiah Booth-Remmers in collaboration with the performers
Original Composition: Sascha Budimski
Additional Music: m by Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm
Lighting Design: Karen Norris
Costume Design: Harriet Ayers
Cast: PPY2 Full Company
Invisible Alchemies is a collection of images and ideas, including delicate golden threads of connection over time and place, unseen magic, care, attentiveness, thin veils between worlds, and how the collapse of individualism ironically leads to the visibility of the individual.
Choreographer: Lisa Maris McDonell in collaboration with the performers
Original Composition: Lisa Maris McDonell with Jonah Rewi McDonell, Aron Ottignon and Nane Kahle
Lighting Design: Karen Norris
Costume Design: Harriet Ayers
Cast: PPY1 Full Company
Originally premiering in 2012, Project Rameau is a collaboration between Sydney Dance Company’s Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela and the Australian Chamber Orchestra to bring the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau into the 21st century. Rameau’s flair for rhythm and melody illuminates Bonachela’s choreography to deliver an exhilarating performance of Baroque ballet and opera music with contemporary dance.
Project Rameau has been restaged in excerpts by Juliette Barton and Todd Sutherland for PPY26 Revealed.
Choreographer: Rafael Bonachela
Restaging: Juliette Barton and Todd Sutherland
Music: Project Rameau byJean-Philippe Rameau
Lighting Design: Karen Norris
Original Costume Design: Rafael Bonachela and Fiona Holley
Costume Realisation: Harriet Ayers
Cast: Alexandra Dennett, Amarli Harrison, Carly Bugg, Faith Draeger, Flynn Masterton, Kirra Horvath, Larina Bagic, Lia Williamson, Louis Corry, Maddison Fisher, Matilda Butterworth, Trinity Taylor-Hric, Xanthe Creighton and Zoe Lewry
GOZARA explores the beautiful and tragic nature of transient human connections, treating the stage as a metaphorical train station where lives intersect. Through physical theatre and visceral movement, the performers embody passers-by navigating life’s fleeting transitions, shifting between the past, the present and the unknown. Diverse figures cross paths for a moment before diverging forever, evoking memories of daily life between fragility and celebration, urgency and determination. Ultimately, this bustling station becomes a powerful testament to human resilience, proving that even the briefest collision of lives can ignite the enduring hope needed to shape a better future.
Choreographer: Jill Crovisier
Original Composition: Fiona Hill
Lighting Design: Karen Norris
Costume Design: Harriet Ayers
Cast: PPY2 Full Company
‘The empty rooms we enter,
once strangers now more
too soon before we leave.
A final dance. Carried by this whisper.’
This intimate exchange between the performers explores the effects of time on relationships, looking at the multifaceted dynamics of connection. How shared experiences bring us closer. The charged stage lays ground for both listening and offering as a collective language is formed.
Choreographer: Hugo Poulet in collaboration with the performers
Original Composition: Hugo Poulet
Lighting Design: Karen Norris
Costume Design: Harriet Ayers
Cast: PPY2 Full Company
Become Ocean is a choreographic meditation inspired by John Adams’ evocative score of the same name. In this new work, the dancers of PPY2 summon our innate connection with the oceanic.
Through the physical embodiment of the ocean’s tensions, its tides, swells, ruptures, and stillness, the dancers evoke the power of collective forces felt through and with the body.
As John Adams notes in his score, “Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea levels rise, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.” This reflection invites us to contemplate our place within this cycle, connecting us to the rhythms of nature and the slipperiness of our future within it.
Choreographer: Melanie Lane
Music: Become Ocean by John Luther Adams and performed by Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Lighting Design: Karen Norris
Costume Design: Harriet Ayers
Cast: PPY2 Full Company
Getting There
Dates & Times
17 December, 7:30pm
18 December, 6:30pm
Location Seymour Centre
Tickets $40 – $55
Duration Approximately 110 minutes with a 20 minute interval. Partial lockout applies.
Warnings
Theatrical haze and strobe lighting may be used throughout the performance.
Attending a performance
Seymour Centre is located at the corner of City Rd and Cleveland St, Chippendale and is easily accessible by public transport. It is within walking distance of Redfern station and bus stops on City Rd, with frequent services throughout the day. The closest secure car park is the Shepherd St multi-storey car park located at the corner of Cleveland St and Shepherd St. You can visit their website for more information.
Your Ticket
If you have any questions, please call Seymour Centre Box Office on 02 7255 1561 or click HERE.
Acknowledgements
Dates & Times
17 December, 7:30pm
18 December, 6:30pm
Location Seymour Centre
Tickets $40 – $55
Duration Approximately 110 minutes with a 20 minute interval. Partial lockout applies.
Warnings
Theatrical haze and strobe lighting may be used throughout the performance.
With special thanks
We would like to thank all of our generous supporters of Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year. A special thank you to Tim Fairfax AC for his visionary support of Sydney Dance Company’s Training Associate and Learning Associate roles. We’re deeply grateful for the opportunities provided by the following scholarship donors: the Wales Family, the Doug Hall Foundation, Mary Zuber, the lan Wallace Giving Fund and the James N Kirby Foundation. We would also like to acknowledge the Hepzibah Tintner Foundation for establishing the Hephzibah Artist Development Program and the Tanja Liedtke Foundation for their support of our Pre-Professional Year program.
Info, Dates & Prices
Dates & Times
17 December, 7:30pm
18 December, 6:30pm
Location Seymour Centre
Tickets $40 – $55
Duration Approximately 110 minutes with a 20 minute interval. Partial lockout applies.
Warnings
Theatrical haze and strobe lighting may be used throughout the performance.
Sydney Dance Company proudly presents PPY26 Revealed.
PPY26 Revealed celebrates the Pre-Professional Year cohorts of 2026 with works by prominent Australian-based and international choreographers Tobiah Booth-Remmers, Jill Crovisier, Lisa Maris McDonell, Melanie Lane and Hugo Poulet, alongside an excerpt from Project Rameau choreographed by Sydney Dance Company Artistic Director, Rafael Bonachela.
About Pre-Professional Year
Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year offers aspiring dancers from across Australia and New Zealand an immersive, full-time training experience alongside a world renowned company. As a Registered Training Organisation (RTO #45863), Sydney Dance Company delivers nationally recognised training within a professional contemporary dance environment.
Now in its second decade, PPY stands as a leader in contemporary dance education, bridging the gap between full-time study and professional practice. The program develops versatile, self assured and creatively empowered artists, ready to make their mark on national and international stages.
PPY26 Revealed
17 December, 7:30pm
18 December, 6:30pm
| Tickets: | |
| A Reserve | |
| B Reserve | |
| Tickets: | Adult |
| $55 | |
| $40 | |
| Tickets: | Concession / Full Time Student / Pensioner / Senior / Children 12 years and under |
| $45 | |
| $40 |
Program
Dates & Times
17 December, 7:30pm
18 December, 6:30pm
Location Seymour Centre
Tickets $40 – $55
Duration Approximately 110 minutes with a 20 minute interval. Partial lockout applies.
Warnings
Theatrical haze and strobe lighting may be used throughout the performance.
From Here attempts to reflect something of the people involved and the world around us. Through extensive improvisation and movement exploration, the performers bring their individual perspectives and ideas to the creative process. Over time, these explorations evolve into scenes and thematic arcs, where movement, music and composition intertwine, giving form to a shared artistic vision.
We hope you enjoy.
Choreographer: Tobiah Booth-Remmers in collaboration with the performers
Original Composition: Sascha Budimski
Additional Music: m by Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm
Lighting Design: Karen Norris
Costume Design: Harriet Ayers
Cast: PPY2 Full Company
Invisible Alchemies is a collection of images and ideas, including delicate golden threads of connection over time and place, unseen magic, care, attentiveness, thin veils between worlds, and how the collapse of individualism ironically leads to the visibility of the individual.
Choreographer: Lisa Maris McDonell in collaboration with the performers
Original Composition: Lisa Maris McDonell with Jonah Rewi McDonell, Aron Ottignon and Nane Kahle
Lighting Design: Karen Norris
Costume Design: Harriet Ayers
Cast: PPY1 Full Company
Originally premiering in 2012, Project Rameau is a collaboration between Sydney Dance Company’s Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela and the Australian Chamber Orchestra to bring the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau into the 21st century. Rameau’s flair for rhythm and melody illuminates Bonachela’s choreography to deliver an exhilarating performance of Baroque ballet and opera music with contemporary dance.
Project Rameau has been restaged in excerpts by Juliette Barton and Todd Sutherland for PPY26 Revealed.
Choreographer: Rafael Bonachela
Restaging: Juliette Barton and Todd Sutherland
Music: Project Rameau byJean-Philippe Rameau
Lighting Design: Karen Norris
Original Costume Design: Rafael Bonachela and Fiona Holley
Costume Realisation: Harriet Ayers
Cast: Alexandra Dennett, Amarli Harrison, Carly Bugg, Faith Draeger, Flynn Masterton, Kirra Horvath, Larina Bagic, Lia Williamson, Louis Corry, Maddison Fisher, Matilda Butterworth, Trinity Taylor-Hric, Xanthe Creighton and Zoe Lewry
GOZARA explores the beautiful and tragic nature of transient human connections, treating the stage as a metaphorical train station where lives intersect. Through physical theatre and visceral movement, the performers embody passers-by navigating life’s fleeting transitions, shifting between the past, the present and the unknown. Diverse figures cross paths for a moment before diverging forever, evoking memories of daily life between fragility and celebration, urgency and determination. Ultimately, this bustling station becomes a powerful testament to human resilience, proving that even the briefest collision of lives can ignite the enduring hope needed to shape a better future.
Choreographer: Jill Crovisier
Original Composition: Fiona Hill
Lighting Design: Karen Norris
Costume Design: Harriet Ayers
Cast: PPY2 Full Company
‘The empty rooms we enter,
once strangers now more
too soon before we leave.
A final dance. Carried by this whisper.’
This intimate exchange between the performers explores the effects of time on relationships, looking at the multifaceted dynamics of connection. How shared experiences bring us closer. The charged stage lays ground for both listening and offering as a collective language is formed.
Choreographer: Hugo Poulet in collaboration with the performers
Original Composition: Hugo Poulet
Lighting Design: Karen Norris
Costume Design: Harriet Ayers
Cast: PPY2 Full Company
Become Ocean is a choreographic meditation inspired by John Adams’ evocative score of the same name. In this new work, the dancers of PPY2 summon our innate connection with the oceanic.
Through the physical embodiment of the ocean’s tensions, its tides, swells, ruptures, and stillness, the dancers evoke the power of collective forces felt through and with the body.
As John Adams notes in his score, “Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea levels rise, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.” This reflection invites us to contemplate our place within this cycle, connecting us to the rhythms of nature and the slipperiness of our future within it.
Choreographer: Melanie Lane
Music: Become Ocean by John Luther Adams and performed by Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Lighting Design: Karen Norris
Costume Design: Harriet Ayers
Cast: PPY2 Full Company
Getting There
Dates & Times
17 December, 7:30pm
18 December, 6:30pm
Location Seymour Centre
Tickets $40 – $55
Duration Approximately 110 minutes with a 20 minute interval. Partial lockout applies.
Warnings
Theatrical haze and strobe lighting may be used throughout the performance.
Attending a performance
Seymour Centre is located at the corner of City Rd and Cleveland St, Chippendale and is easily accessible by public transport. It is within walking distance of Redfern station and bus stops on City Rd, with frequent services throughout the day. The closest secure car park is the Shepherd St multi-storey car park located at the corner of Cleveland St and Shepherd St. You can visit their website for more information.
Your Ticket
If you have any questions, please call Seymour Centre Box Office on 02 7255 1561 or click HERE.
Acknowledgements
Dates & Times
17 December, 7:30pm
18 December, 6:30pm
Location Seymour Centre
Tickets $40 – $55
Duration Approximately 110 minutes with a 20 minute interval. Partial lockout applies.
Warnings
Theatrical haze and strobe lighting may be used throughout the performance.
With special thanks
We would like to thank all of our generous supporters of Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-Professional Year. A special thank you to Tim Fairfax AC for his visionary support of Sydney Dance Company’s Training Associate and Learning Associate roles. We’re deeply grateful for the opportunities provided by the following scholarship donors: the Wales Family, the Doug Hall Foundation, Mary Zuber, the lan Wallace Giving Fund and the James N Kirby Foundation. We would also like to acknowledge the Hepzibah Tintner Foundation for establishing the Hephzibah Artist Development Program and the Tanja Liedtke Foundation for their support of our Pre-Professional Year program.
Past Performances
