BODY OF WORK – a Retrospective
Body of Work – a Retrospective was both a gala performance at the Sydney Opera House on Saturday 6 May 2000 but a slightly different show was also performed nationally throughout Australia in the same year. It was devised to celebrate Graeme Murphy’s and Janet Vernon’s 25th year at the helm of the Sydney Dance Company, with a mixture of excerpts from past and present works. This was an opportunity for a new generation of audiences to get a taste of the early works that shaped the company and Graeme’s choreographic language.
Body of Work – a Retrospective won the Helpmann Award for Best Choreography in 2001
Featured Video (previous page): Opening Film (projected in both the gala’s and main season’s performances)
Video Tab above: Excerpts from Sequenza VII, The Protecting Veil, Synergy with Synergy,
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Body of Work - a Retrospective, with excerpts from:
Shining
Daphnis & Chloé
Soft Bruising
An Evening
Synergy with Synergy
Poppy
Piano Sonata
Fornicon
The Protecting Veil
Sheherazade
Sequenza VII
Berlin
Free Radicals
Plus various Film/ Video Components
Choreography
Graeme Murphy
Creative Associate
Janet Vernon
Set
Kristian Fredrikson
Film/ Video Montages
Philippe Charluet
Lighting
Damien Cooper
Sound
Adam luston
Rehearsal Director
Brett Morgan
Dancers, in alphabetical order
Katherine Arnold-Lindley
Wakako Asano
Andrea Bnody
Josef Brown
Tracey Carrodus
Bradley Chatlield
Lea Francis
Katherine Griffiths
Christopher Harris
Gavin Mitford
Carl Ptaisted
Christopher Sherrif
Simone Sault
Matthew Shilling
Simon Turner
Janet Vernon
Sally Wicks
Xue-Jun Wang
Musicians
Michael Askill
Alison Eddington
Alison Low Choy
Philip South