Sydney Dance Co. Underland: What The Critics Said …
“[Underland] is an intriguing dance piece with compelling dance and constantly changing moods – or rather, an overall
mood of thoughtful solemnity that lifts, deepens, swirls and edges its way into a range of subtle variations…Its
intensity and emotional depth take hold in a partnership of dance, music and visuals…Everyone who can should see it.
Perhaps more than once.” SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
“[Nick Cave’s] music is the key to Underland. Wildly and yearningly romantic while heading to hell in a handbasket, it
niggles and jangles but also gets to the heart of the matter. Cave’s gift is to be able to bypass sentimentality on his
way to richer, darker emotional states.” THE AUSTRALIAN
“9.5/10: Non-narrative and non-linear, Underland lies somewhere beyond the realm of language: it gets under your skin,
seeps into your pores. Essentially, it is Stephen Petronio’s emotive response to Nick Cave’s music and the great sum of
any clever parts. When those parts – movement, sound, film and design – combine at the right time in space, it’s like
atoms colliding to create an explosive, fleeting force.” SUN-HERALD
“Truly excellent multimedia dance theatre is all too rare in Australia, so when the lights came up on the triptych of
screens that forms the backdrop to Stephen Petronio’s Underland and a thread of white smoke began to snake its way
across them, chills rand down my spine. The rest of this dark, abstract, wide-ranging work did not disappoint…between
the music, the spoken and sung word, the magnificent screen work by Sydney video artist Mike Daly, and Sydney Dance
Company’s superb dancing, Underland is a dark feast, a melancholy celebration of all we are and might be.” DANCE
AUSTRALIA
“… weapons-grade movement …” DEBORAH JONES, THE AUSTRALIAN
“…inventive movement structure that seamlessly captures both wild abandon and formalism… ” SUN-HERALD
“Petronio’s skill as a choreographer manifested in a profusion of solos, combinations and formations, an impressive
variety of modalities and infinite variations…Petronio’s originality shines through those dancers most suited to his
more frenetic range; Bradley Chatfield and Chylie Cooper’s duets and solos dazzle and Katie Ripley’s ‘Prelude to Weep’
is another high point.” REALTIME
“[Bradley Chatfield] dances…with such thrilling corporeality and spine-bending, time-bending ease.” THE AUSTRALIAN
FINANCIAL REVIEW
“It’s a privilege to watch magnificent dancers at the peak of their powers.” COURIER MAIL, BRISBANE
“It is technically demanding, but the dancers rise to the challenge…with an aggressively gritty panache.” THE AGE,
MELBOURNE
UNDERLAND:
VENUE, DATES & TICKET PRICES
AUCKLAND
ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre, THE EDGE®
10 – 13 November
Performance Times
Wednesday – Friday 7.30pm
Saturday 5pm & 8.30pm
Ticket Prices*
Evenings
Premium $75.95
A Reserve $65.95 /$59.95 conc
B Reserve $55.95/49.95 conc
C Reserve $45.95
Group 6+ (A Res) $49.95
* service fees will apply
Book at Ticketek: (09) 307 5000 or http://www.ticketek.com