Sydney theatregoers will be treated to two world premiere performances thanks to a Greek Australian dance collaboration.

As part of The Sydney Dance Company’s Louder Than Words season, Australian dancers will bring to life the artistic vision of some of Europe’s most prolific artists.

Choreographed by Rafael Bonachela and Andonis Foniadakis, Louder Than Words runs from 8 to 18 October 2014 at The Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay.

Dancers express the primal fury of Foniadakis in the world premiere of Parenthesis, which explores the sensuality and disorder of human intimacy. Working to a tight schedule, the dancers had just 30 days to meet, practice and master the piece.

“It happened really quickly, within ten days we had our first draft of the show,” said dancer Juliette Barton.

Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis is known for conjuring restless energy, at once brash and beautiful.

“Each of the dancers were asked to work on building a phrase for themselves, a movement phrase that was a common speech, so something that I would do or say that was representative of me,” she continued.

Foniadakis’ choreographic stardom sky-rocketed four years ago on the back of a string of highly praised works for well-respected dance companies worldwide including the darkly aggressive Kosmos for Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, the beautiful Echo for the Martha Graham company, the explosive
Horizons for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and the elegant Glory for Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve.

Foniadakis is a choreographer who does everything at full throttle. He runs his own project-based company while juggling international commissions in Europe, the United States and now Australia.

“The dancers are great, they are at a very high level. The way they work is very focused, I mean it is amazing … for me it is a great opportunity to work with those dancers,” said assistant choreographer Markella Manoliadi.

Parenthesis is performed alongside Bonachela’s new work Scattered Rhymes. The dancers follow a cappella renditions of fourteenth century poems.
Bonachela and Foniadakis together present a manifesto for the future of dance – brash and beautiful, unapologetic and impossible to contain. From
Bonachela’s measured grace to Foniadakis’ primal fury, this is an explosive choreography unified by a kinetic lexicon.

Where words falter, movement speaks to us still.