New Breed – Sydney Dance Company

Overview

In a move that's all about nurturing new talent, Sydney Dance Company and Carriageworks have invited five emerging choreographers from around the country to create works with some of the top contemporary dancers from the Sydney Dance Company ensemble. The result is New Breed — and this is the first iteration of what will be a three-year initiative.

The paintings of Australian artist Stephen Bush are reimagined in dance form in Lee Serle's White Elephant, while Juliette Barton's Scrutineer turns the audience into voyeurs, as the dancer morphs, dissects and reconfigures in front of them. And in Cass Mortimer Eipper's Dogs and Baristas, five dancers resolutely take all the affection they can get from the little interactions — like when the barista you can't ignore flashes you a smile with his pearly whites over the coffee machine and hopes you have a great day (like he really means it).

New Breed is a compilation of works that are sometimes probing, sometimes comical and always bold — in the universal style of the new breed.