Their bags are packed, new passports issued and international immunisation certificates are at the ready – after three years of isolation, 17 dancers from the Sydney Dance Company are preparing to fly out on their first international tour since 2019.
“It’s another step towards normality,” says the company’s executive director Lou Oppenheim. “We have been producing and reproducing tours for a long time. Both venue and performance company schedules are out of sync, all our planning cycles too, so it’s back to reestablishing ourselves on the world stage.”
Sydney Dance Company’s executive director Lou Oppenheim with rehearsals director Richard Cilli and dancers Davide di Giovanni, Jesse Scales and Rhys Kosakowski.The 25-member entourage from Australia’s largest contemporary dance company will depart Sydney on Sunday to perform Rafael Bonachela’sin Paris at the Theatre National de Chaillot, then to Maison de la Danse in Lyon and Le Theatre Olympia d’Arcachon and Theatre de Gascogne at Mont de Marsan.