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GEORGE
PIPER DANCES
Title:
MANDOX BANDOX
Premiere: 26th
September 2006
, Sadler’s
Wells London
Music: Andy
Cowton
Lighting Design:
Natasha Chivers
Costume: Robert
Morrison
Choreographer’s
Assistant: Amy
Hollingsworth
Dancers: Michael
Nunn, William
Trevitt &
Oxana Panchenko
For
us, Rafael’s
experimental
style, influenced
by the visual
arts and pop
culture is very
much in tune
with our own
approach. He
has a very impressive
pedigree; a
wonderful dancer
with Rambert,
he went on to
choreograph
for them and
numerous others
including, of
course, Kylie
Minogue.
We wanted him
to use all this
experience to
create a stunning
finale for our
evening; a piece
that would allow
three dancers
to fill the
stage, a piece
that would be
physically challenging
but also enjoyable
to perform.
A piece that
looks to the
future of dance…
George Piper
Dances
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AHOTSAK
(/aót∫ak/)
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Running
time approximately
: 30 min.
/aót∫ak/
is a journey
through Luciano
Berio’s
haunting composition
for viola,
tam-tam and
voice.Bonachela’s
six extraordinary
dancers explore
the walls
that surround
us –
both real
and imagined.
The result
is sometimes
violent, sometimes
tender, but
always innovative.
An
underlying
sexuality
that gives
handsome physical
presence to
the jagged
emotionalintelligence.THE
TIMES
Performed
by 6 dancers
Designer:
Alan Macdonald
Lighting Designer:
Lee Curran Music:
Luciano Berio
Costumes:
Theo Clinkard
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SET
BOUNDARIES
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Running
time approximately
: 20 min
Set
Boundaries
is an urgent
and stylish
work highlighting
how the voice
can be used
as a weaponof
power. The
dramatic new
score by Matthew
Herbert uses
Alan Seeger’s
poem “Rendezvous
with Death”
and the real
words of a
Kurdish asylum
seeker while
visual artist
Lenka Clayton
anddesigner
Alan Macdonald
confine the
dancers in
a tense world
where they
play out nightmares
of powerlessness
and dreams
of escape.
The
dancers, trapped
within invisible
barriers,
alternate
between hard
angled defiance
and ahaunted,
liquid fear.
THE GUARDIAN
Performed
by 6 dancers
Designer:
Alan Macdonald
Lighting Designer:
Lee Curran
Music: Matthew
Herbert
Visual Artist:
Lenka Clayton
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RAMBERT
DANCE
COMPANY
Title:
Curious
Conscience
by Rafael
Bonachela
Premiere:
21 September
2005,
The Lowry
Salford
Composer:
Benjamin
Britten
Music:
Serenade
for Tenor,
Horn and
Strings
Composed:
1943
To be
performed
by his
lifelong
partner
Peter
Pears
Design:
Alan McDonald
Lighting
Design:
Lee Curran
Costume
design:
Robert
Cary-Williams
Curious
Conscience
has been
created
to Benjamin
Britten’s
Serenade
for Tenor,
Horn and
Strings,
which
was composed
in 1943
to be
performed
by his
life-long
partner
Peter
Pears.
Set to
six very
diverse
poems,
including
works
by William
Blake,
John Keats
and Lord
Alfred
Tennyson,
the score
is bound
together
by a similar
theme
–
the uneasy
world
of night,
sleep
and dreams.
A 20th
Century
British
masterpiece
of atmosphere,
the music,
which
begins
and ends
with an
evocative
horn solo,
leaves
you feeling
like you
have been
on a beautiful,
yet disturbing
journey.
Composed
during
wartime,
the work
also expresses
the torment
of that
dark era,
both physical
and metaphorical,
alongside
the memories
of brighter
times.
The context
of the
music
score
has provided
the inspiration
for the
choreography
and designs.
Driven
by the
mystery
of night,
we have
worked
closely
together
to evoke
a dark
and menacing
mood full
of uncertainty
and discomfort.
Distorted
realities,
as experienced
within
the subconscious
realms
of dreams
and nightmares,
emerge
to create
a surreal
and visual
landscape.
Rafael
Bonachela
and Alan
Macdonald
“…It
is an
impressive
and intellectual
adventurous
project,and
Bonachela
deploys
his 18-strong
cast with
style.
His dancers
prowl
the stage
their
bodies
galvanised,
their
limbs
whipping
from stillness
to quivering
hyperextention
in a fraction
of a second.It’s
technically
impressive…”
DAILY
TELEGRAPH
Nov 2005
“Elusive
shapes
and epic
dread
summon
all manner
of dark
nocturnal
thoughts;
alienation
and desire
for confort
compete
in Bonachela’s
disturving
landscape.
His last
work as
Rambert’s
associate
choreographer
is also
his best.”
THE TIMES
2005
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PROBE
Dancer
led
company
created
by Antonia
Grove
and
Theo
Clinkard
.
Slick
and
sexy,
and
emocionally
charged
duet
which
explores
the
wild
and
the
tender
sides
of relationship,to
the
music
of mexican
singer
Chavela
Vargas
and
Guidon
Kremer’s
“Hommage
to Piazzola”.
Soledad
was
awarded
both
the
Guglielmo
Ebreo
Prize
and
the
Critics´
Prize
at the
first
ever
Biennale
Danza
e Italia
and
is international
competition
for
independent
choreographers
from
all
over
the
world
“Soledad
establishes
a tone
of eroticised
tension.
The
black-clad
Grove
and
Clinkard
carry
a heavy
burden
of mingled
desire
and
turmoil...Bonachela
unquestionably
provides
material
into
which
the
couple
can
sink
its
teeth”
TIME
OUT
2005.
Premiere:
15 October
2005
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DANCE
WORKS
ROTTERDAM
- E27SD
In
October
2005,
Rafael
Bonachela
will teach
company
performers
of Dance
Works
Rotterdam,
E2 7SD.
The piece
will form
part of
their
company
repertoire.
E2 7SD
will premiere
in Rotterdam
on 3 November
2005.
For further
information
visit:
www.danceworksrotterdam.nl
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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
Lighting design:
Bill Deverson
'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
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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.
For
more
info
please
visit:
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E2
7SD
Performed
by:
Lee
Clayden
&
Antonia
Grove
Sound
Sculpture:
Oswaldo
Macia
in
collaboration
with
Santiago
Posada
Lighting
Design:
Lee
Curran
Costumes:
Txela
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,
for
a
glimpse
of
the
event
take
a
look
at
images
in
the
photo
gallery.
E2
7SD
has
also
been
performed
in
2005
at
Dies
de
Dansa
Festival
in
Barcelona
and
at
Festival
cite
in
Lausanne,
Switzerland.
<<
click
the
image
to
view
the
slide
show
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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
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VESPER
II
Vesper was originally
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