Up Close: Somos. Sydney Dance Company, Neilson Studio, November 1, 2023

Up close is right. It’s likely you’ll never get nearer the spectacular Sydney Dance Company bodies than this.  SDC is usually seen in the conventional 900-seat Roslyn Packer Theatre just across the road from the company’s home in Sydney’s Walsh Bay. Up Close: Somos is staged in SDC’s Neilson Studio for a maximum of 150…

Bonachela/Nankivell/Lane, Sydney Dance Company

Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney, March 27 Bonachela/Nankivell/Lane ushers in Sydney Dance Company’s 50th anniversary celebrations with three works that foreground the dancers. There are appealing but unpretentious costumes and no sets. There are bodies in motion, music and lights, although perhaps a few more blackouts than desirable on one night. The relative simplicity could be seen as…