*2005
UNION DANCE

Title: Silence Disrupted
Commissioned for Union Dance Company
Premiere: 12 May 2005 / Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Music: Santiago Posada
Costume Design: Jessica Bugg
Light Wear Designer: Uli Oberlack
Multimedia Artist: Derek Richards

'Silence Disrupted' -movement and light broke the silence and sound was created.
Silence Disrupted is a pure dance work. The overall concept stems from the theme Sensing Change which I have used as the stimulus for my understanding of the work. Silence Disrupted looks at sensing different movement qualities and dynamics.
For further information on this competition visit: www.uniondance.co.uk

VERVE

Northern School of Contemporary Dance graduate dance company

On 21 May 2005, VERVE premiered a new work by Rafael Bonachela at The Place for VERVE. 5 female and 1 male dancer worked with Rafael for just under three weeks to develop a 20 minute work.

For further information visit www.nscd.ac.uk
LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME

Duration: 28 minutes
Commissioned for Dance Works Rotterdam
Premiered: 12 January 2005
Music: Carlos Suero
Lighting design: Lee Curran
Costumes: Txela

This is Rafael Bonachela's first collaboration with Dance Works Rotterdam."Lay Your Hands On me" is an unsettling journey of tangled relationships within a disorientated sound score, complimented by sleek, stylish costumes. Rafael feeds from the seven dancers qualities developing different situations of human interaction within a mood changing lighting concept.
*2004
E2 7SD

Images by Ione Saizar (dancers: Antonia Grove /Lee Clayden)

E2 7SD was conceived as a performance and sound sculpture of an emotionally charged landscape. The dancers perform in the mirror of their own vocal journeys, showing us energy, beauty and white-hot intensity in the mundane, the dangerous and the desperate.

On Saturday 25 September 2004 at The Place Theatre in Euston, Rafael was announced as the winner of The Place Prize for his work E2 7SD.

E2 7SD was performed at the Art Plus Dance event at Whitechapel Art Gallery << click the image for more info
2 IN B MINOR

2 in B Minor was commissioned for the 2004 summer collection upstairs at the Clore Studio, Royal Opera House. The duet for Celia Grannum and Patricia Okenwa was revived for the Dancebeats programme at The Place in November2004.

Having previously worked with Patricia Okenwa and Celia Grannum, Rafael was inspired to create this duet to music Ryoji Ikeda. 2 in B Minor brings together two solos that become a duet drawing on the beautiful physicality of the dancers.
VESPER II

Vesper was originally created for 6 dancers . For the Hip Festival the piece has been reworked as a trio.

Premiered: 12 March 2004, Purcell Room, South Bank Centre
Music: Oswaldo Macia
Costume Design: Txela
IRONY OF FATE

A solo, created for Rambert Dance Company dancer Amy Hollingsworth which was performed at a gala dedicated to Young Spanish Creators of the 21st Century as part of International Day of Dance, Madrid. It was the first time that Barcelona-born Rafael's work has been seen in his Spanish homeland. << click the image for more info

Premiered: 29 April 2004
Performed by: Amy Hollingsworth
Music: Partita
Composer Vytautas Barkauskas
Costume Design: Robert-Cary Williams
2003
THIS WAY UP

Commissioned for the Fresh festival at The Place, London. The festival brought together some of the country's best young dance companies with an unbeatable line-up of professional artists.

Premiered: 20 December 2003
 
SOLO SONATA NO.2

Created for the Cheltenham International Festival of Music, 2003. Performed with violinist Ruth Palmer and dancer Antonia Grove from Walker Dance.

Premiered: July 2003
Music: Eugene Ysaye
SKETCHES

Created for the Cheltenham International Festival of Music, 2003. Performed with violinist Ruth Palmer and dancer Antonia Grove from Walker Dance.

Premiered: July 2003
Music: Geoff Palmer
SWEETNESS

Created for Rambert Dance Company's 2003 Workshop Season at The Place Theatre.
Premiered: 20 June 2003

Music: Fischerspooner
Running Time: 5 minutes

"I decided to choreograph to music by one of my favourite bands at the moment- Fischerspooner. The album that this song is from is the very definition of retro. It is filled with moments that shift between punk, pop and electro." Rafael Bonachela.
21

A work in 3 sections, each lasting 7 minutes. The work opens with a trio of females who perform an intricate routine that incorporates daring lifts and skilful manoeuvres. At the beginning of the 2nd section, a huge gauze screen flies in at the front of the stage onto which a film of Kylie Minogue is projected. The dancers are visible through the screen and appear to interact with Kylie. The final section uses all 14 dancers and becomes much faster in pace. There are moments when the dancers move in unison, which creates a very powerful atmosphere.

Premiered: 9 April 2003
Costume Design: William Baker, Alan Macdonald
Music: Benjamin Wallfisch
Running Time: 21 minutes

"One of the most stunning pieces of mixed media dance theatre I have seen." The Stage
*2002
TRIO

Commissioned by the English Chamber Orchestra for their Young Artists' Series at the Hackney Empire. The piece was created for four Rambert dancers and was performed with live music.

Premiered: 2002
Music: Benjamin Wallfisch
Film: Tim Meara
*2001
LINEAR REMAINS

The work opens with a solo and progressively grows in pace and numbers as the work develops. Duets, quartets and sextets follow, but it comes full circle to leave the same female dancer on stage at the end. The work often takes place on the diagonal, emphasising the linear aspects of the piece.

Premiered: 21 November 2001
Music: Christian Fennesz
Running Time: 10 minutes
AT ANY TIME

Created for Rambert Dance Company to mark the Company's 75th anniversary. Premiered at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London.

Premiered: 2 May 2001
Costume Design: Hilde Rubecksen
Lighting Design: Michael Mannion
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Artist: Angela De La Cruz

"There is a new confidence and sophistication in it's patterning and a new spin on the difficult art of duet-making. Inventive, bold and far beyond the old boy-girl, straight-gay scenarios that lurk inside most duets, this feels bracingly like dances for the new millennium."
The Guardian
2000
MAI SE SAP

Commissioned by the Isleworth Festival and performed by Rachel Poirier. The festival paired five choreographers with five composers to create new works.

Premiered: 2000
Music: Mario Verandi
Film: Fernando Arias
*1999

BECAUSE

A virtuoso exploration of distortion for five dancers: lithe, up front and packed with dangerous twists that require split second timing. The accompanying score packs a punch with an equally quirky sound world, employing electric viola, bass guitar and percussion. This work was created for the Isleworth Festival.

Premiered: 16 May 1999
Costume Design: Robert Cary-Williams
Music: Colin Riley
1998
THREE GONE, FOUR LEFT STANDING

An atmospheric blend of music, poetry and movement, Rambert dancer Rafael Bonachela's assured choreographic debut creates an offbeat and distinctly urban mood.

Premiered: 17 February 1998
Lighting Design: Malcolm Glanville
Music: Nic Pendlebury
Poetry: Elizabeth Old