Diverse triple bill showcases the breath-taking range and versatility of Bonachela’s baby.

Sydney Theatre

March 17, 2014

The actor and writer David Woods has contributed the text for Gideon Obarzanek’s new dance work (third on the evening’s bill of fare) and he writes an insightful program note: “It isn’t easy to put into words the event that we have just been a part of,” he says. “Different monological narratives are triggered in each of us and to attempt to label and describe them reduces the possibilities of the work to transport us. ‘Oh?’ we say “I thought it was about something else.’”

It’s with some trepidation therefore that a critic embarks on a description of Interplay, Sydney Dance Company’s scintillating new triple bill unveiled last night. To use the tired metaphor of a feast, or in this case a straightforward three-course meal, Rafael Bonachela serves up a savoury primi piatti in the form of his own 2 in D Minor, a meaty main course with a revival of Jacopo Godani’s 2011 Raw Models, and chases it down with Gideon Obazanek’s witty L’Chaim.

The Bonachela first. In 2 in D Minor he choreographs Bach’s Second Partita with fragmentary Bachian interludes provided by Nick...