Ascent by Sydney Dance Company - Forever and Ever

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Saturday, 12 August 2023 | 07:30 PM
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Ascent is an inspired triple bill featuring Antony Hamilton’s Helpmann-award winning Forever & Ever and two new works- I Am-ness by Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela and The Shell, A Ghost, The Host & The Lyrebird by renowned international choreographer Marina Mascarell.
Brimming with physicality, Ascent tempers contemporary classical with futuristic experimentation. Full of electric movement and emotional force, this program is an arresting portrait of contemporary dance and its potential to move, excite and activate audiences.
Rafael Bonachela’s I Am-ness calls for the convergence of the moving body and creative mind, as four dancers canvass the nature of existence with euphoric tenderness. Marina Mascarell’s The Shell, A Ghost, The Host & The Lyrebird takes the audience on a journey with bodies through the unknown, exploring a constantly transforming space as mutant creatures in an oneiric valley. To conclude the triple bill, Forever & Ever fuses a killer mix of dance, techno, high fashion and vivid lighting to hypnotic effect.
Brought to life by Sydney Dance Company’s superb ensemble, Ascent is a sensorial delight complete with inventive installations and magnetic musical scores. Exploring themes of humanity, technology, and nature, this is a creative union at once forceful, sumptuous and dizzying.
“Bold, emotive and visceral, Ascent is a must-see for lovers of dance.” - Arts Hub
Forever & Ever
The Helpmann Award-winning Forever & Ever premiered in 2018, laying “siege to the senses with a mighty display of shock and awe” (The Australian). Set to a sonically stimulating score by The Presets’ Julian Hamilton, Forever & Ever fuses a killer mix of dance, techno, high fashion and vivid lighting to hypnotic effect.
Exploring ideas of order, chaos, popular culture and human behaviour, this boundary-pushing work is a bold and thrilling theatrical experience that is not to be missed.