Rafael Bonachela and Jacopo Godani with the Sydney Dance Company, by Andrew Miller
Shared Frequencies
The Sydney Dance Company
Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay: 5 April 2011
in Sydney until 16 April
Raw Models
Choreography - Jacopo Godani
Assistant to the choreographer - Amy Hollingsworth
Music - 48 Nord (Ulrich Mueller and Siegfried Roessert)
Costumes and lighting - Jacopo Godani
Costume realization - Claire-Louise Rasmussen
Landforms
Choreography - Rafael Bonachela with the dancers of the Sydney Dance Company
Assistant to the choreographer - Amy Hollingsworth
Music - 'Music for Weather Elements' composed by Ezio Bosso
Lighting - Mark Dyson
Costume design - Rafael Bonachela
Costume realization - Fiona Holley
Music performed by
Ezio Bosso - piano
Veronique Serret - violin
Geoffery Gartner - cello
Katie Noonan - voice
Contemporary art has been around long enough now to be no longer necessarily contemporary with the present day and likewise Avant-Garde seems sometimes more a style than an attitude or movement. Contemporary dance, as free and expressive as it generally is, sometimes feels held back by its stock of conventional movements and gestures. These movements are becoming less and less abstract even if they can be expressive and exhilarating and every good choreographer has their own touch with them. Of course classical ballet has its own stock of traditional steps, but these are meant to blend together smoothly; in a way the ultimate aim of the choreographer and dancer is to meld these individual steps together into the transitionary movements to become a single fluid movement and an expression of a whole more than the sum of its steps. The audience forgets to see or analyze the steps as separate.






