A collaboration with an Asian choreographer, performances in primary schools and a US tour form part of next year’s season.

Sydney Dance Company breaks new ground with its 2017 season, which includes the Company’s first collaboration with an Asian choreographer and also its first tour to NSW primary schools.

^{Nelson Earl will perform in the new double bill Orb. Photo courtesy of Sydney Dance Company}

The big new work for 2017 is a double bill called Orb, which will premiere at Sydney’s Roslyn Packer Theatre in April. Described as “an extraordinary lunar mystery”, Orb will feature a new work by SDC Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela called Ocho, paired with the world première of a piece called Full Moon, to be created on the dancers by Taiwanese choreographer Cheng Tsung-lung, Artistic Director of the Taipei-based Cloud Gate 2 Theatre. Ocho is Bonachela’s latest collaboration with composer Nick Wales, while Full Moon will feature electronic music by Lim Giong, who composed the award-winning score for the 2015 martial arts film The Assassin.

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