SIZE OF COMPANY
10 on the road
SCALE OF VENUE
Medium to large
PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Rafael Bonachela
Producer
Cate Canniffe
Assistant Director
Amy Hollingsworth
ARTISTIC POLICY
Bonachela Dance Company is a dynamic new touring company, working collaboratively across art forms and disciplines under the artistic direction of acclaimed choreographer Rafael Bonachela. Founded on Bonachela’s interest in the physicality and emotional impulse of the body, the company brings together artists from diverse practices to create revolutionary new work that makes each performance an extraordinary experience.
REVIEW EXTRACTS
An underlying sexuality that gives handsome physical presence to the jagged emotional intelligence.
The Times (Ahotsak)
In choreographic terms…could not be more accessibly human, its movement a repository of dream fragments, memory and emotion.
The Guardian (Square Map of Q4)
A three dimensional illusion which Bonachela emphasises through impossible group entanglements and pure individual beauty.
The Sunday Express (Square Map of Q4)
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Square Map of Q4
Uses projections onto dancers to enhance the movement and explore concepts of light as sculptural form and evokes dreamlike states and half recalled memories.
80 minutes with interval, 6 on stage, 10 on road
Voices
A diptych comprising Set Boundaries – a collaboration with composer Matthew Herbert, visual artist Lenka Clayton and designer Alan Macdonald and /aót∫ak/ inspired by Luciano Berio´s Naturale.
75 mins with interval, 6 on stage, 10 on the road
Mixed bill
Various award winning works, from duets to solos and group works, including Place Prize winning E2 7SD, Soledad and Irony of Fate.
Programme length and number of dancers dependent on works selected.
FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
New work available from June 2009
A collaboration with composer Ezzio Bosso and designer Alan Macdonald. The work will explore how the signs surrounding us impact our lives and emotions.
Approx 80 minutes with interval, 6 on stage, 10 on the road
WRAP-AROUND
Pre or post-performance talks for a general audience. Workshops for students age 15+ studying dance, including warm up, teaching of sequences, and intensive task-based choreographic exercises. Masterclasses for professional dancers also available.
RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008 Italy, Spain, Sweden, Andorra: Square Map of Q4
2007 Italy: Mixed bill
2006 Spain, Sweden, Netherlands: Voices
TOURING AVAILABILITY
Mixed bill of duets and solos available from January 2009
New work available from June 2009
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