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Venice toured to the Festival of Perth early in 1985 and then was seen nationally and internationally until it was withdrawn as a result of restrictions placed on it by the Messiaen estate.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.

Murphy, Graeme ; Mercurio, Paul ; Welch, Garth ; Sydney Dance Company ; Vernon, Janet

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National Film and Sound Archive

Title no: 258003

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