Stephen Page and William Barton collaborate for Sydney Dance Company’s 2025 season

The fruits of Sydney Dance Company’s annual New Breed showcase of emerging choreographic talent, as well as new works by established artists, are celebrated in the Company’s 2025 season.
A sequence from Rafael Bonachela’s 'Somos', which is featured in Sydney Dance Company's 2025 season. A female dancer, long dark hair cascading towards the floor, holds one leg up in a sharply vertical position as she falls back into a shirtless male dancer's arms.

The world premiere of a new collaboration between choreographer Stephen Page AO, the former Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, and acclaimed yidaki player and composer William Barton, has been announced as part of Sydney Dance Company’s 2025 program.

Unungkati Yantatja – one with the other marks the first time that Page, a descendant of the Nunukul people and the Munaldjali clan of the Yugambeh Nation, has collaborated with Barton, a Kalkadunga man.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts