Sydney Dance Company Announces 2022 Season
Prepare to elevate your senses with Sydney Dance Company’s 2022 Season! Look forward to a year of dance that will lift your spirits and engage your heart and soul.
“After two tumultuous years spent dancing in lounge rooms, on screens and on our own, we are dizzy with the pleasure of performing for you. We have six world premieres, two encore works, a national tour, an international tour, a festival appearance, an independent dance season and performances under the stunning starry skies of Sydney. I cannot wait to see you in the theatre in 2022,” said Rafael Bonachela, Artistic Director
Sydney Dance Company begins their season with Decadence by Ohad Naharin from January 6-9th at Sydney Opera House as part of Sydney Festival. Bursting at the seams with vitality and impact, featuring physical refinement alongside playfulness, Decadance is contemporary dance that speaks to everyone.
In March, Sydney Dance Company joins the Night at the Barracks line-upwith Impermanence featuring the Australian String Quartet, and the iconic duet from ab [intra] which was featured in the Paris Opera Ballet’s 350th Gala evening.
Travel and border restrictions permitting, 2022 will see Sydney Dance Company embark on an extensive tour to France and New York City with Rafael Bonachela’s critically acclaimed ab [intra]. Meaning ‘from within’ in Latin, ab [intra] is “an exploration of our primal instincts, our impulses and our visceral responses,” says choreographer Rafael Bonachela. From tenderness to turmoil, ab [intra] is a journey through the intensity of human existence that will command your attention.
From June to September, Sydney Dance Company will tour Nationally with Impermanence. A visceral, thrilling and moving exploration of the juxtaposition of beauty and devastation, Sydney Dance Company’s Impermanence is a critically acclaimed full-length work by Rafael Bonachela. Contemporary composer, Bryce Dessner has composed a new score full of emotional power for the performance. Combined with the full power of Sydney Dance Company ensemble, this is an epic, driven performance, that packs an emotional punch.
After completing their International and National tours, Sydney Dance Company will return to Walsh Bay for Resound. Tracing an arc of emotions that moves from a dark turbulent interrogation of recent times through to a burgeoning buoyant optimism, Resound is a program of three unique dance works that will engage your heart and soul.
Rafael Bonachela’s acclaimed work Ocho makes a welcome return to the stage as the first part of the evening. Set in a glass room, eight dancers search for salvation and connection, finding a salve for the troubles of the world. The second half of the program delivers two world premieres. Summer – a new work by Rafael Bonachela which captures the lightness of a world turning over a new leaf. The aural backdrop is the quintessential sound of the Australian summer and with costumes by the unmistakable masters of colour, Australian Fashion Laureate Designers of the Year Romance was Born, Summer will have your spirits soaring.
Sydney Dance Company is also thrilled to commission a new work by Stephanie Lake. One of the most exciting and significant Australian dance artists working today, Lake will create a world premiere for the third piece in the Resound program. Lake’s new creation fuses movement, music and text, bringing blistering light to the stage and a fizzing glimpse of a haunted dreamscape.
Finally, to finish the season, Sydney Dance Company Carriageworks and The Balnaves Foundation continue their commitment to choreographers and present the ninth edition of New Breed. Since its premiere season in 2014, 30 emerging Australian choreographers have created works for this program. Showcasing a rich diversity of choreographic ideas, the ninth cohort of incredibly talented choreographers will create brand new works on members of Sydney Dance Company. 2022’s four choreographers will be announced mid-year.
Tickets can be purchased from sydneydancecompany.com. Subscription packages to the Sydney performances of ab [intra], Resound and New Breed are available now.