It’s not usually the instinct of Sydney Dance Company (SDC) artistic director Rafael Bonachela to go small when choreographing. But occasionally you have to open yourself to a different approach. Such was the case when working alongside Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) for the first time in 15 years on the new concert Silence & Rapture.
For Valve’s part, the collaboration of music and movement captured in Damien Cooper’s radiant lighting design and set to a framework conjured by Tognetti, which suggests a spiritual journey through the biblical gardens from Eden to Gethsemane and on to Heaven, has also opened his heart to new ways of playing.
