Keep Holly Dancing

Sydney Dance Company is excited to launch a new crowd funding initiative, which aims to give talented young Australian dancer, Holly Doyle, a once in a lifetime opportunity - the chance to spend a year rehearsing, performing and touring (both nationally and internationally) with the Company as a launchpad for her career.
To keep Holly dancing with Sydney Dance Company and give her the break that every talented young Australian dreams of, $100,000 has to be raised.
And as part of its fundraising strategy, Sydney Dance Company is reaching out to the community via an exciting new crowd funding initiative, developed with the support of advertising agency The Works Sydney and QBT Consulting.
Developed around the theme of Keep Holly Dancing, the campaign involves a dedicated website at www.ayearonthewharf.com

with exclusive video footage of Holly performing a unique piece of contemporary choreography created by Rafael Bonachela.
A preview of Holly’s performance is available for anyone who visits the website, but to see the whole dance work, key fundraising targets must be reached.
Every donation, from as little as one dollar, helps to ‘unlock’ Holly’s performance, with new segments of the video footage becoming available as targets are achieved.
The Keep Holly Dancing campaign is part of a larger Sydney Dance Company initiative, established to provide promising young Australian dancers with breakthrough opportunities to kickstart their professional careers.
A Year on the Wharf, named after the Company’s home at Wharf 4 in the Walsh Bay arts precinct, is an annual scholarship program providing financial support for one outstanding young dancer, from anywhere in Australia, to join Sydney Dance Company for one year.

Casting competition for a cameo acting role in Sydney Dance Company's Fanatic

Sydney Dance Company is putting out the call for enthusiastic males who would like to be part of our upcoming season of De Novo.

This cameo acting role in Larissa McGowan's hilarious sci-fi inspired work, Fanatic, is a bit of fun and a once in a lifetime chance for members of the public (no dance experience or skill required) to share the limelight with our team of professional dancers.

Entrants need to submit an audition clip, which we'll be sharing on our social media sites, so that our fans can vote for their favourite cameo startlets.

Entries close February 18 and shortly after that we'll be announcing the winners, plus some special guest appearances!!

http://www.sydneydancecompany.com/win-a-role-in-fanatic/

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2 One Another

Sydney Dance Company are performing 2 One Another at the Sydney Theatre. This work is world premier choreographed by Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela.
I have to admit when I was young I didn't enjoy this type of dance, it is very modern with no story. But now I can appreciate this type of work, its intricate form developing in front of you. The dancers performed together with great precision.  The worked flowed as Bonachela used certain moves to link the different sections together making it a cohesive, spellbinding piece of work.
The music is quite varied, started with very machine like electronic music turning to a choral more classical style.  Nick Wales did an amazing job arranging the music for this work. Bonachela asked poet and writer Samuel Webster to watch the dancers and write about what he saw. He then used these phrases as a basis for creating the movements.

What amazed me about this work was the amount of movement it contained, it was continuous and often at times you didn't know where to look there was so much happening. It was great watching it from the circle as some of it reminded me of synchronized swimming. Being high up however, you didn't get the full effect of the amazing light projections at the back of the stage. If you did watch it you couldn't watch the dancers are the same time.  The work emphasized interaction between people, in groups and pairs as they moved, interacted and supported each other. Dance solos highlight the solitude of human existence.
It was everything it promised to be, if you want to see it, it plays until 31 March.

Interview with Amy Hollingsworth

Amy Hollingsworth is the Dance Director of the Sydney Dance Company. She has had an amazing dance career. One 2 Another is about to open at the Sydney Theatre, find out more from Amy when she was interviewed on Triple H 100.1 fm on The Hubbub.

(please note the link will become inactive in about 3 months time, call 02 99403649 if you would like to listen)

Sydney Dance Company announces new dancers

Sydney Dance Company welcomes four new dancers to the company in January 2012 - Tom Bradley, Alana Sargent, Jesse Scales and Chris Aubrey - each of whom represents the best in the next generation of contemporary dancers.

Tom Bradley, who hails from country NSW, has been awarded the second annual Sydney Dance Company Foxtel Scholarship*, which offers him a three-month internship with the company, including a spot in the first season, 2 One Another**. Tom won Best Emerging Male Performer and was nominated for Most Inspiring Performance and Best Choreography by an Emerging Artist at the 2010 New Zealand Festival of Dance. He is also the recipient of two previous scholarships to the Victoria College of the Arts Secondary School and the New Zealand School of Dance.