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The Sydney Dance Company is one of Australia's most successful and well-known contemporary dance companies. The company was founded in 1969 as the dance-in-education group ''Ballet in a Nutshell'' by Suzanne Musitz (Davidson), later changing its name to ''Athletes and Dancers'', and ''Dance Company (NSW)''. In 1979 the company was renamed the Sydney Dance Company by its new artistic director Graeme Murphy, who had joined the Dance Company (NSW) in 1976. The success of Murphy's tenure as artistic director, with fellow dancer, collaborator and wife Janet Vernon, has been compared to the dancer and choreographer Jerome Robbins because of the way he and his company has marketed dance to a wider audience, and brought contemporary dance into a more commercial arena. Part of Murphy's success has been his wide-ranging taste in music and the eclectic choices of musical accompaniment he has made for his dance works. The breakthrough work ''Some Rooms'' (1983), which received enormous acclaim, featured a selection of existing music by composers Keith Jarrett, Joseph Canteloube, Francis Poulenc, Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber, whereas other works featured newly commissioned original music. ''Hate'' (1982) had a score by noted Australian composer Carl Vine, and his successful 1985 production ''Boxes'' featured original music by composer and musician Iva Davies, who was then the lead singer with popular Australian rock band Icehouse. Current Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela’s first commissioned work for the Company, ''360°'', was as a guest choreographer with the Company. Following his appointment in 2009 as Artistic Director he has premiered his new works ''we unfold'' (2009), ''6 Breaths'' (2010), ''LANDforms'' (2011) and ''2 One Another'' (2012); presented Australian premieres of his previous works ''Irony of Fate'', ''Soledad'', and ''The Land of Yes & The Land of No''; and new commissions from guest choreographers Kenneth Kvarnstrom (''Mercury'' 2009); Adam Linder (''Are We That We Are'' 2010); Emanuel Gat (''Satisfying Musical Moments'' 2010); and Jacopo Godani (''Raw Models'' 2011). Following a number of years of negotiation, in 2014 the Company announced it had been granted permission to perform William Forsythe's rarely performed 1993 work ''Quintett''. The work is set to Gavin Bryars' soulful ''Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet''. Since Rafael Bonachela’s appointment, the company has toured around Australia and to Venice, Beijing, Germany, New York, Barcelona, London and Guanajuato. ==History== In May 2007, the company announced that Tanja Liedtke would be its new artistic director; however on 17 August of that year Liedtke was accidentally killed after being shot by a man throughout the northern suburb of Sydney In December 2007, Executive Director Noel Staunton launched the company's 2008 season, announcing three guest choreographers, Meryl Tankard, Rafael Bonachela and Aszure Barton, to create new works for the company. Bonachela was subsequently appointed the Company's new Artistic Director. In December 2008, Foxtel signed a three-year sponsorship of the company involving special broadcasts and incorporating the company into subscription television programs ''Australia's Next Top Model'' and ''Project Runway Australia''. In December 2009 Anne Dunn was appointed Executive Director of the Company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sydney Dance Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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