ENCOUNTER SYDNEY – FORM Dance Tasks

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PRESENTED BY SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
EMMA SAUNDERS and the WE ARE HERE Firm
PRODUCED BY FORM DANCE PROJECTS

“Someone puts a boombox down on the concrete … I don’t get it, I don’t know how to be here …and I enter the space they’ve opened up and I dance.”
Felicity Castagna, ENCOUNTER, 2020.

After a rippin’ world premiere of ENCOUNTER in 2020, in Parramatta, Western Sydney, FORM Dance Tasks, Emma Saunders and a brand new dance ensemble, the WE ARE HERE Firm, are again with ENCOUNTER SYDNEY.

Unfold out on the forecourt of Sydney Opera Home, directed by the “formidable” Emma Saunders, ENCOUNTER SYDNEY explores the on a regular basis extraordinariness and power behind our subsequent technology.

In collaboration with a bunch of award-winning Australian artists, together with author, Felicity Castagna, composers, Amanda Brown (The Go-Betweens) and Jodi Phillis (The Clouds), a solid of 10 dancers and phrases spoken by Warren Foster, ENCOUNTER SYDNEY explores the indomitable spirit of youth and the world they discover themselves in.

The riveting soundtrack to ENCOUNTER SYDNEY, is the unique ENCOUNTER rating carried out and recorded by the musicians of the Western Sydney Youth Orchestra, performed by James Pensini.

The season runs from Wednesday 18 Might to Saturday 21 Might, 2022 at 4:30pm every day and it's a FREE occasion.

DIRECTOR: EMMA SAUNDERS
CHOREOGRAPHY: EMMA SAUNDERS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DANCERS
WRITER: FELICITY CASTAGNA
COMPOSERS: AMANDA BROWN AND JODI PHILLIS
ORCHESTRATOR: JESSICA WELLS
CONDUCTOR: JAMES PENSINI
VISUAL ARTIST: DAVID CAPRA
SPOKEN WORD: WARREN FOSTER
DANCE CAPTAINS: JOSHUA O’CONNOR AND NAOMI REICHARDT
DANCERS: JULIAN CHAN, SARAH GOROCH, GABRIELA GREEN OLEA, CLAYTON JEAN, SARAH KALULE, LAWRENCEA MATEARIKI, SABRINA MUSZYNSKI, JOSHUA O’CONNOR, NAOMI REICHARDT, EMILY YALI
MUSICIANS: WESTERN SYDNEY YOUTH ORCHESTRA
COSTUME KEEPER: QUIRINE VAN NISPEN
PRODUCTION ASST: JEREMY AINSWORTH
PRODUCER: ANNETTE McLERNON

FORM DANCE PROJECTS
COMMISSIONING EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: ANNETTE McLERNON
BUSINESS MANAGER: SALLY EBERT
MARKETING CO-ORDINATOR: NAOMI HIBBERD
ENCOUNTER PHOTOGRAPHER: HEIDRUN LOHR
ENCOUNTER TRAILER: DOMINIC O’DONNELL

SYDNEY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: MIA PATOULIOS

Sydney Opera House

“ENCOUNTER demonstrated the best of humanity. The whole experience was a huge achievement and added to the notion that art can change the world, lift us up and give us a positive view of the community we inhabit. We need more moments of ENCOUNTER.”

Wesley Enoch, Sydney Competition, Creative Director, (2017-2021)

“ENCOUNTER spreads out, into, over and around the audience. It envelopes our senses, amazes visually and aurally and leaves us buoyed and ready to encounter the world once more. The original music score powers the dance in a myriad of moves and moods and Felicity Castagna’s text rings true and authentically out of a contemporary increasingly urbanised world. Do experience ENCOUNTER up close and soon.”

Robert Love AM, Riverside Theatres (2001-2021)

ENCOUNTER is proudly funded by the NSW Authorities by the Tradition Up Late initiative.

ENCOUNTER and ENCOUNTER SOUTH have been initially Commissioned and Produced by FORM Dance Tasks, supported by Sydney Youth Orchestras and FLING Bodily Theatre, for presentation in 4 Winds SPRING Competition 2019 and Sydney Competition 2020.