Sydney Dance Company.Often described as "radical" and "liberating lib·er·ate tr.v. lib·er·at·ed, lib·er·at·ing, lib·er·ates 1. To set free, as from oppression, confinement, or foreign control. 2. Chemistry To release (a gas, for example) from combination. ," Sydney Dance Company The Sydney Dance Company is one of Australia's most successful and well-known contemporary dance companies. It was renamed in 1979 by Graeme Murphy and fellow dancer and collaborator Janet Vernon, who had joined its predecessor, the Dance Company (NSW), in 1976. is Australia's premier contemporary dance troupe. Now resigning after 30 years (see "Transitions," p. 104), artistic director Graeme Murphy Graeme Murphy (born Melbourne, November 1950) is regarded as one of Australia's best dance choreographers. Together, with fellow dancer and collaborator Janet Vernon, he has guided Sydney Dance Company to become one of Australia's most successful and well-known dance companies. brings the company on a farewell tour of the U.S., making stops along the West Coast and in Kansas and Pennsylvania. They will perform Murphy's Grand as well as Stephen Petronio's Underland. See www.sydneydancecompany.com. |
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