Sydney Dance Company’s emerging choreographers will be showcased overseas for the first time in November.

Ahead of the Australian premieres of their four newly created works, this year’s Sydney Dance Company New Breed artists will for the first time be showcased overseas. The New Breed programme is Sydney Dance Company’s professional development platform, championing the best emerging choreographers working within the sphere of contemporary dance. This year independent dancer-choreographers Daniel Riley and Kristina Chan are joined on the pioneering scheme by two aspiring dance makers from the ranks of the SDC, Bernhard Knauer and Fiona Jopp, who all have the unprecedented opportunity to unveil their New Breed works on a global stage. On November 26 each of the four talented artists will deliver the world premieres of their new works, performed by dancers from the SDC, at the prestigious Festpiele Ludwigshafen in Germany, before they bring the works home for their Australian premieres at Sydney’s Carriageworks on December 8 – 13.

A professional debut is always an auspicious event, but for German-born Bernhard Knauer having the opportunity to present his first fully staged choreography in his native Germany is especially poignant. Knauer relocated to...