photo Pedro Greig
The largest contemporary dance company in Australia has two very different pieces of the choreographers Rafael Bonachela and Melanie Lane.
Founded in 1969, Sydney Dance Company has reached an exceptional level of excellence in the creation of an abstract and physically demanding gestural vocabulary. Twofold is a brilliant example, combining the resumption of a play created in 2021 by its director, Rafael Bonachela, to a new creation from Melanie Lane. In impermanence, the Catalan choreographer explores the points of contact between beauty and devastation, in harmony with the piece for quartet ordered to the American composer Bryce Dessner. It is nourished by the emotions revived in 2019 by the fires which ravaged the Australian and Notre-Dame de Paris Bush. In Love Lock, the Australian-Javanese choreographer Melanie Lane explores the form that folk dance could take in the 21st century, against the backdrop of the electronic soundtrack of the English composer Chris Clark. Dance reflects the dangers of a changing world as well as a dialogue between cultures, and is used to move us, alert us and inspire us.
-Love Lock
Choreography
Melanie Lane
Musique
Clark
Light
Damien Cooper
Costumes
Akira IsogowaImpermanence
Choreography
Rafael Bonachela
Musique
Four zaïde
Light
Damien Cooper
Costumes
Aleisa Jelbart
Scenography
David FleischerFrom June 11 to 15, 2025
La Villette, Paris as part of the Chaillot National Dance Theater season
