Sydney Opera House & Sydney Dance Company
Choreographers- Emily Amisano, Stephanie Lake, Larissa McGowan and Lisa Wilson
The world premiere creations of four gifted female choreographers from around Australia had their debut at Sydney Opera House’s Spring Dance Festival. A stripped back stage frames the sheer talent of the women and Sydney Dance Company dancers. Marked by their individual style the four’s collective experience has seen them work with such prestigious companies as Sydney Dance Company, Expressions, Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin and Australian Dance Theatre.
Desire- Starting from the single thread of desire. Inspired by the interior landscape of the body and mind, I am looking to show layered and subliminal meanings of the emotional concept of desire. With Intimate struggles and traces of human stories remaining intact, Desire focuses on the internal forces which drive us or make us falter. Desire is the thread that runs through our reality- the thread between possession and loss
key artists
Choreographer: Lisa Wilson
Music: Paul Charlier, Matt Cornell, Nine Inch Nails
Lighting Designer: Ben Cisterne
Performers: Emily Amisano, Lachlan Bell, Thomas Bradley,
Juliette Barton, Richard Cilli, Janessa Dufty and Bernhard Knauer
Press
“…. breathtaking… magnificent: tender and twisting…featured a wonderful, sculptural quartet.”
Lynne Lancaster, Artshub
“Wilson has captured desire as it really is, from incandescent yearning to burning ambition. Wilson’s bold, uncompromising, distinctive, intensely physical choreography…. holds a mirror in which we can clearly see what, almost at once, inspires, animates, uplifts and condemns us.”
Lloyd Bradford Skye, Curtain Call
“…. it was exciting to see four of Australia’s most talented female choreographers create a repertoire of works, performed by the best of Australia’s contemporary dancers.
Kristy Johnson, Dance Informa
“…eloquently intimate movement “
Jill Sykes, SMH
Lloyd Bradford Skye, Curtain Call (on Desire)
“… (a) choreographer who has a gift for creating quality work with a unique essence.”
Belinda Adams, Dance Informa (on Crush)
Photography- Peter Greig
This project was co-commissioned by Sydney Opera House and Sydney Dance Company