SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY
Twofold
RAFAEL BONACHELA · Impermanence
MELANIE LANE · Love Lock
1h45 with intermission
Australia’s greatest contemporary dance company presents two very different pieces by the choreographers Rafael Bonachela and Melanie Lane.
Established in 1969, the Sydney Dance Company has attained an unusually high level of excellence in forging an abstract, physically demanding gestural vocabulary. Twofold is a shining example of this, uniting the reprisal of a piece created in 2021 by its director, Rafael Bonachela, and a new work by Melanie Lane. In Impermanence, the Catalan choreographer explores the points of contact between beauty and devastation, in harmony with the quartet piece commissioned from American composer Bryce Dessner. It is fuelled by the emotions that were revoked in 2019 by the fires that ravaged both the Australian bush and Notre-Dame de Paris. In Love Lock, Australo-Javanese choreographer Melanie Lane explores the form that folkloric dance could take in the twenty-first century against the backdrop of the electronic soundtrack by English composer Chris Clark. The dance reflects the dangers of a changing world as well as a dialogue between cultures, and serves to move us, alert us, and inspire us.
With the Chaillot National Dance Theatre
Love Lock
Choreography Melanie Lane Music Clark Lighting Damien Cooper Costume Akira Isogowa
Impermanence
Choreography Rafael Bonachela Music Quatuor Zaïde; Bryce Dessner © Chester Music Ltd Courtesy of Première Music Group, a division of Wise Music Group Lighting Damien Cooper Costume Aleisa Jelbart Scenography David Fleischer
Co-production La Villette – Paris, Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse
The Sydney Dance Company’s 2025 international tour was supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW.
Practical information
Grande Halle
Metro
Line 5 - Porte de Pantin station
Tramway
Line 3b - Porte de Pantin station
Bus
Bus 75, 151 - Porte de Pantin stop
Parking
Q-Park
Philharmonie
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - La Villette
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - Conservatoire
Parking
Cité des Sciences
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Bike racks are available inside the Espace Chapiteaux area. You may leave your electric bike there with the battery attached.
- PRM contact at 01 40 03 75 75
- Light food and refreshments available on-site before the show in the Grande Halle
- Several dining options available in the park before or after the show, discover them HERE.
- The show includes a 20 minutes intermission.
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