Sydney Dance Company Blasts Off With Space Age 2017 Season

In T-minus three months, Sydney Dance Company will blast off with a stellar 2017 program inspired by the cosmic majesty of the Moon, the break-neck pace of our technology driven world and the surging energy of electronic beats.

The season opens with a world premiere double bill, Orb, featuring a newly commissioned work by Chen Tsung-lung, the Artistic Director of the renowned Taiwanese dance company, Could Gate 2. Full Moon is a meditation on the enduring human fascination with our planet’s natural satellite and its place in mankind's mythologies. This piece will be accompanied by Ocho, the latest collaboration between SDC artistic director Rafael Bonachela and electronica composer Nick Wales. The pair have worked extensively together in the past and their most recent partnership, Lux Tenebris, has toured throughout Australia and Europe this year, to great public and critical acclaim.

Building on its increasingly lauded international reputation, SDC will head to the US in 2017, showcasing Bonachela’s Helpmann-Award 2014 masterpiece, Frame Of Mind, in New York, Boston, Swarthmore and Amherst. The touring bill will also feature Gabrielle Nankivell’s Wildebeest, which receives its world premiere next week in Sydney, and Jacopo Godani’s Raw Models. The company will also tour Frame of Mind and Wildebeest across Australia later in the year.

Another of Bonachela's past success will also have a revival in 2017. SDC will be delivering the 100th performance of 2 One Another, which first stepped out on stage in 2012. Since then, the piece has earned three Australian Dance Awards, two Green Room Awards and a Helpmann, making it one of the most decorated productions in the company's canon.

SDC will also present an East Coast-West Coast collaboration with Perth-based contemporary dance troupe Co3, aimed at a school-aged audience. Antony Hamilton’s Crazy Times celebrates and questions the speed and freneticism of our technology-obsessed world. This dance theatre piece is a departure from the abstract expressionism that dominates SDC’s programming and will use video projection, elaborate costumes and surrealist props to vividly communicate this fantastical futurist story.

Full details of Sydney Dance Company's 2017 season are available now.