After Venice (1984 - )
Gaica, Branco: Kim Walker as Jashu, Paul Mercurio as Tadzio and Garth Welch as Aschenbach in Graeme Murphy's 'After Venice', Sydney Dance Company, 1984
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Graeme Murphy's After Venice, choreographed for his Sydney Dance Company, had its premiere at the Drama Theatre of the Sydney Opera House on 1 December 1984. Designed by Kristian Fredrikson and lit by John Drummond Montgomery, it was danced to Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony. The work's opening season featured Garth Welch as Aschenbach, Paul Mercurio as Tadzio, Janet Vernon as Tadzio's Mother, Bill Pengelly as Aschenbach the Younger, Nina Veretennikova as Mme Aschenbach, Kim Walker as Jashu, Tadzio's Friend, Francoise Philipbert as Tasdzio's Girl, Alfred Williams as Death, Shane Carroll as Love and Michael Hennessy as Lust. After Venice toured to the Festival of Perth early in 1985 and then was seen nationally and internationally until it was withdrawn as a result of restrictions placed on it by the Messiaen estate.
See also: Murphy, Graeme ; Sydney Dance Company ; Walker, Kim
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- After Venice, 1985 (Moving picture)
- Choreography: Graeme Murphy
- Music: Olivier Messiaen, Turangalila Symphony ; Gustav Mahler, Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
- Lighting: John Drummond Montgomery
- Cast: Paul Mercurio, Janet Vernon, Garth Welch and artists of Sydney Dance Company
- VHS videocassette, produced by Philippe Charluet, Stella Motion Pictures, for the Australian Film and Television School
- colour, sound, PAL, 75 mins
- A meditation on the physical and the metaphysical inspired by Death in Venice, the novella by Thomas Mann. First performed in 1984.
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Murphy, Graeme ;
Mercurio, Paul ;
Welch, Garth ;
Sydney Dance Company ;
Vernon, Janet
- Location:
- National Film and Sound Archive
- Title no: 258003
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![McMurdo, Don: Dancers from Sydney Dance Company in 'After Venice', [198-]](http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24826536-t)
McMurdo, Don: Dancers from Sydney Dance Company in 'After Venice', [198-]
- McMurdo, Don: Dancers from Sydney Dance Company in 'After Venice', [198-] (Picture)
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Sydney Dance Company
- Location:
- Don McMurdo personal archive collection
- National Library of Australia
- PIC/8336/250 LOC Cold store PIC McM Album 1036/2
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Gaica, Branco: Garth Welch as Aschenbach and Paul Mercurio as Tadzio in 'After Venice, Sydney Dance Company, 1984
- Gaica, Branco: Garth Welch as Aschenbach and Paul Mercurio as Tadzio in 'After Venice, Sydney Dance Company, 1984 (Picture)
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Welch, Garth ;
Mercurio, Paul ;
Sydney Dance Company
- Location:
- National Library of Australia
- PIC P1140/4/R
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McMurdo, Don: Garth Welch as Aschenbach and Paul Mercurio as Tadzio in Graeme Murphy's 'After Venice', Sydney Dance Company, 1984
- McMurdo, Don: Garth Welch as Aschenbach and Paul Mercurio as Tadzio in Graeme Murphy's 'After Venice', Sydney Dance Company, 1984 (Picture)
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Sydney Dance Company ;
Welch, Garth ;
Mercurio, Paul ;
Murphy, Graeme
- Location:
- Don McMurdo personal archive collection
- National Library of Australia
- PIC/8336/90, Album 8336/1
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McMurdo, Don: Garth Welch as Aschenbach and Paul Mercurio as Tadzio in Graeme Murphy's 'After Venice', Sydney Dance Company, 1984
- McMurdo, Don: Garth Welch as Aschenbach and Paul Mercurio as Tadzio in Graeme Murphy's 'After Venice', Sydney Dance Company, 1984 (Picture)
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Murphy, Graeme ;
Mercurio, Paul ;
Sydney Dance Company ;
Welch, Garth
- Location:
- Don McMurdo personal archive collection
- National Library of Australia
- PIC/8336/56, Album 8336/1
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Gaica, Branco: Garth Welch as Aschenbach in Graeme Murphy's 'After Venice' , Sydney Dance Company, 1984
- Gaica, Branco: Garth Welch as Aschenbach in Graeme Murphy's 'After Venice' , Sydney Dance Company, 1984 (Picture)
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Murphy, Graeme ;
Sydney Dance Company ;
Welch, Garth
- Location:
- Sydney Dance Company collection
- National Library of Australia
- PIC P1140/1/R
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- Interview with Graeme Murphy, 1990 (Oral history)
- Interviewee: Murphy, Graeme
- Interviewer: Shirley McKechnie
- Audiotape, 180 mins
- This interview begins with some reflections by Murphy on his early career. The major part of the interview, however, is devoted to a discussion of some of Murphy's works. They include soft bruising, Kraanerg, After Venice and VAST.
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Murphy, Graeme
- Location:
- National Library of Australia
- TRC 2680
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- Interview with Graeme Murphy, 1996 (Oral history)
- Interviewee: Murphy, Graeme
- Interviewer: Michelle Potter
- Audiotape, 60 mins
- Graeme Murphy talks about After Venice, especially the difficulties he faced with music copyright for the work. He also discusses the nature of Sydney Dance Company, making Nutcracker for the Australian Ballet, some of the other works he made between 1990 and 1996 and his application for the job of artistic director of the Australian Ballet.
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Murphy, Graeme ;
Sydney Dance Company ;
Australian Ballet, The ;
Nutcracker
- Location:
- National Library of Australia
- TRC 3478
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Gaica, Branco: Janet Vernon as the Mother of Tadzio in Graeme Murphy's 'After Venice', 1987
- Gaica, Branco: Janet Vernon as the Mother of Tadzio in Graeme Murphy's 'After Venice', 1987 (Picture)
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Vernon, Janet ;
Murphy, Graeme
- Location:
- Sydney Dance Company collection
- National Library of Australia
- PIC P1140/2/R
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McMurdo, Don: Paul Mercurio and cast in the Sydney Dance Company's production of After Venice, 1984
- McMurdo, Don: Paul Mercurio and cast in the Sydney Dance Company's production of After Venice, 1984 (Picture)
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Mercurio, Paul ;
Sydney Dance Company
- Location:
- Don McMurdo personal archive collection
- National Library of Australia
- PIC/8336/52 LOC Cold Store PIC McM Album 1036/1
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Smith, Eric: Marilyn Jones and Garth Welch in 'The Nutcracker', the Australian Ballet, 1964
- Photographs of Garth Welch, 1962-1985 (Picture)
- A photographic portrait of Garth Welch taken in 1971 by Heide Smith shows Welch with Margot Fonteyn in costume for Raymonda. Photographs of Welch in Graeme Murphy's After Venice are located in the Sydney Dance Company collection of photographs. Other photographic material showing Welch in roles with the Borovansky Ballet and the Australian Ballet is in the Geoffrey Ingram Archive and the Peggy van Praagh Collection.
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Fonteyn, Margot ;
Welch, Garth ;
Sydney Dance Company ;
Borovansky Ballet ;
Australian Ballet, The ;
Raymonda
- Location:
- Pictures Collection
- National Library of Australia
- Smith: P496/9; Sydney Dance Company: P1140/1-3R; Ingram: P348/BB; P348/AB; van Praagh: PIC 3132/147-151
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- Photographs of Paul Mercurio, 1984-1994 (Picture)
- Exhibition portrait of Paul Mercurio by Angela Lynkushka shows him in Sydney on roller blades preparing for Edgeing. Other photographs of Mercurio are in the Sydney Dance Company collection. They include shots of Mercurio in Some Rooms and After Venice.
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Mercurio, Paul ;
Sydney Dance Company ;
Some Rooms
- Location:
- National Library of Australia
- P621/1; P678/2; P1140/3R-4R; P1148/2/R
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- Sydney Dance Company collection, 1984-1995 (Picture)
- The Sydney Dance Company collection of photographs consists of a series of photographic prints showing company dancers, including Kathryn Dunn, Lea Francis, Paul Mercurio, Graeme Murphy, Stephen Page, Ross Philip, Janet Vernon, Garth Welch and Alfred Williams [Taahi], in a variety of works including After Venice, Black and Blue, King Roger, Late Afternoon of a Faun, Nearly Beloved, Poppy, Shining, Beauty and the Beast and Some Rooms. Some non-dance portraits are included.
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Vernon, Janet ;
Poppy ;
Sydney Dance Company ;
Mercurio, Paul ;
Murphy, Graeme ;
Page, Stephen ;
Welch, Garth ;
Some Rooms ;
Late Afternoon of a Faun ;
Shining ;
Beauty and the Beast
- Location:
- Sydney Dance Company collection
- National Library of Australia
- PIC P1136-P1148; PIC P678; PIC P698
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