New Breed 2015

Overview

Looking for the next wave of Australian choreography? Just after a solid cultural night out in Sydney? This one's for you. Four of Australia’s boldest new choreographers have joined forces to present their latest and most ballsy work for this year's instalment of New Breed at Carriageworks. The show made its global premiere at Germany’s famous Festspiele Ludwigshafen last week. Now, it’s on its way to Carriageworks for a first workout in front of Aussie audiences. Only seven performances are planned, so you’d best get your mitts on tickets super-quick.

New Breed is the product of a brilliant collaboration between Carriageworks and the Sydney Dance Company. The idea is to give a leg-up to the next generation’s most impressive dance talents. After all, launching a career on your own can be tough. So, Carriageworks's associate director of programming Lisa Ffrench teamed up with Sydney Dance Company's artistic director Rafael Bonachela to scope out four of Australia’s most promising youngsters: Bernhard Knauer, Daniel Riley, Fiona Jopp and Kristina Chan.

Each of these gifted, creative creatures was given six months to come up with a new dance piece. To help them along, they had access to Sydney Dance Company — both its beautiful studios and its ridiculously skilled ensemble.

Now, you get to lap up the results. New Breed presents the works — Knauer’s Derived, Riley’s Reign, Jopp’s so much, doesn't matter and Chan’s Conform — as a four-part show. It’ll be on every evening between Tuesday, December 8 and Sunday, December 13. Saturday, December 12 will see two shows, with a matinee from 2pm.

Image credit: Peter Greig.