Following on from this year’s Helpmann success, SDC will offer two Bonachela world premieres in 2016.

2015 has been a spectacularly successful season for Sydney Dance Company, crowned by its clean sweep at this year’s Helpmann Awards, winning every gong it was nominated for. Such a consummately accomplished year has set the bar very high for the company, and a determination to meet the stratospheric expectations of its audience has clearly been front of mind while planning for 2016’s offering, announced today.

Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela cemented his personal reputation at the Helpmanns, not only for being a savvy and brightly inventive curator but also for being one of Australia’s most visionary choreographers. Off the back of 2015’s award-winning critical smash-hit Frame of Mind SDC are hoping to add to this year’s trophy collection with two world premieres by Bonachela in 2016.

Opening the season Lux Tenebris, meaning Light and Darkness in Latin, is described as following “deep, unexpected, visceral beats to discover a dark place where there is space for beauty and light.” Bonachela’s dance will be set to a newly...