Shining (1986 - )

Gaica, Branco: Andrea Toy and Alfred Williams [Taahi] in Graeme Murphy's 'Shining', Sydney Dance Company, 1986

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Shining was choreographed by Graeme Murphy for his tenth anniversary season as director of Sydney Dance Company. In program notes Murphy wrote:

'Shining celebrates my gratitude for ten wonderfully exciting years with the Sydney Dance Company. Years affording me association with established and blossoming talents from varied areas of the arts, introduction to new audiences in Australia and overseas and, above all, the joy of working in uncompromising proximity to the dancers. Ten years has seen the consolidation of the Company team in a magnificant home and we have gathered a power of friends that give Janet Vernon and myself an unfaltering belief in the future- a future shining with promise.'

Set to a selection of music by Karol Szymanowski, with set design by Andrew Carter, costume design by Jennifer Irwin and lighting by John Drummond Montgomery, the work premiered in the Opera Theatre, Sydney Opera House on 6 November 1986. Its three acts unfolded backwards in time beginning with 'Dawn', moving to Pre-Dawn and concluding with events of the previous evening in 'Night'. Both Murphy and his associate Janet Vernon performed in Shining. The work was toured extensively in 1987.

See also: Murphy, Graeme ; Sydney Dance Company ; Vernon, Janet

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