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	Sydney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sydney Harbour looking south from the vicinity of the Sydney Harbour Bridge towards the CBD skyline; the Opera House is visible in the background on the left.
		Sydney is a significant global and domestic tourist destination and is regularly declared to be one of the most beautiful and liveable cities in the world, admired for its harbour, beautiful coastline, warm and pleasant climate and cosmopolitan culture.
		Sydney is located in a coastal basin between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Blue Mountains to the west.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney (2729 words)

	Sydney Dance Company
		SYDNEY -- In a program note, Stephen Petronio says his new "Underland" on the Sydney Dance Company was "built as a place rather than a dance, a kind of subconscious world that locates the heart and essence of Nick Cave's music....
		Sydney Dance Company performs "Underland" at the Sydney Opera House through Saturday, touring the piece to Brisbane June 18 - 25 and Melbourne July 3 - 12.
		Suzanne Davidson is a Sydney-based writer and the founder of the Sydney Dance Company.
	www.danceinsider.com /f2003/f0612_1.html (911 words)

	Sydney Dance Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sydney Dance Company is one of Australia's most successful and well-known dance companies.
		Murphy has been compared to the dance and choreographer Jerome Robbins because of the way he and his company has marketed dance to a wider audience, and brought contemporary dance into a more commercial arena.
		Sydney Dance Company has launched the careers of several highly successful Australian dancers and choreographers, including
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sydney_Dance_Company (161 words)

	Sydney Dance Company
		Sydney Dance Company is Australia’s premier contemporary dance company and one of the country’s most prolific and vibrant arts organisations.
		Sydney Dance Company’s ensemble of eighteen dancers are acclaimed internationally for their technical finesse and artistry.
		Sydney Dance Company gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australia Council, the Federal Government’s arts funding and advisory body, through the Major Performing Arts Board; the New South Wales Government through the Ministry for the Arts; and the invaluable support it receives from its sponsors, company supporters and partners.
	sydneydancecompany.com /company (867 words)

	Sydney Dance Company explores percussion in 'Free Radicals' Oct. 28 at UI
		Most dances begin with a musical score, but with "Free Radicals" the choreography and the music and were created simultaneously, through the spontaneous interaction of the artists.
		The Sydney Dance Company, founded in 1969, is considered one of Australia's most vital arts organizations, capturing the sunny, athletic spirit of its homeland.
		For example, UI Dance Department faculty member Alan Sener, who is in charge of the artistic legacy of the late American choreographer Louis Falco, traveled to Sydney in 1994 to teach Falco's boxing piece, "Black and Blue," to the company.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/1997/october/1010sydney.html (616 words)

	Newsday.com - Sydney Dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Arriving just after the mad dash of a dance that is "Technologic 2," it's a wonderful moment of repose during a 90-minute performance full of energy, elegance and originality.
		As the dance world celebrates the centennial of George Balanchine - widely credited with championing the non-narrative ballet form in the United States - it seems fitting that this outstanding company's current program is comprised of a series of unrelated pieces with the kind of humor and playfulness that Balanchine loved.
		Before the frenetic final dance ("Speed") that ends the show, there's a zany piece called "Homage to Metallica." Briody gets tied to the tracks as a group of dancers form a train that threatens to run her over.
	www.jeremycaplan.com /sydney.htm (613 words)

	AUSTRALIA COUNCIL: ARTS IN AUSTRALIA: SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY
		Sydney Dance Company is Australia's premier contemporary dance company and one of the country's most influential arts organisations, largely due to the repertoire of choreographer Graeme Murphy, whose work has changed the face of dance in Australia.
		Graeme Murphy began his directorship of Sydney Dance Company in 1976 with associate director Janet Vernon, announcing an artistic vision for the company that would give prominence to Australian artists across a broad range of creative endeavor - composers, designers, filmmakers, dancers and choreographers; and aspiring to an uncompromising standard of excellence.
		Sydney Dance Company continues to tour works from its vast repertoire to venues across Australia and overseas.
	www.ozco.gov.au /arts_in_australia/artists/artists_major_performing_arts/sydney_dance_company (274 words)

	The Australian: Cash-strapped dance company needs leg-up [May 18, 2005] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Murphy has said he will step down, after 29 years as the Sydney company's artistic director, if he is forced to reduce the number of dancers from the current core of 17.
		Sydney Dance has been in talks about its future with federal and state governments since March, after recording a $600,000 deficit last year.
		Sydney Dance signed a letter of agreement with the Australia Council last week, bringing forward the company's future grants and guaranteeing its cashflow until March next year.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,15324840%255E16947,00.html (413 words)

	Dance Spirit Magazine - City Focus: Sydney, Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sydney, a city of over 4 million, is home to diverse contemporary dance companies and a thriving underground network of freelance dance makers.
		Sydney is fortunate to house Bangarra Dance Theatre, which was founded in 1989 by Carole Johnson, the founding director of the National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association (Australia’s national indigenous dance school).
		Sydney Dance Company, shown here in Graeme Murphy’s Air And Other Invisible Forces, is the city’s longest surviving contemporary dance company.
	www.dancespirit.com /backissues/jan02/cityfocus1.shtml (673 words)

	Susan Reiter - Sydney Dance Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It followed his Tivoli, an elaborate spectacle evoking a forgotten era of vaudeville-style touring entertainments that was performed jointly by Murphy's Sydney Dance Company and the Australian Ballet, and it preceded the version of Swan Lake he staged for the ballet troupe.
		Several of the largest men wore these dance belts along with what one Australian critic identified as "micro boleros" —I borrow this term because I was at a loss at what to call these items, which covered the arms and shoulders (in chartreuse or blazing orange) while exposing the chest.
		The SDC dancers are an athletic, ready-for-anything bunch, ready to contort with yogic abandon, throw themselves at each other and get borne aloft in a dazzling variety of ways.
	www.danceviewtimes.com /dvny/reviews/2004/winter/sydney.htm (787 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / Sydney Dance Company begins U.S. tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Sydney Dance Company will present the New York premiere of Murphy's "Ellipse" on Tuesday as part of its current U.S. tour that began Feb. 5 in Philadelphia.
		Many of them are closer in age to 40 than 20, and tend to stay with the company for a long time, belying the notion that dancers' professional lives are fleeting.
		Sydney Dance Company performs Feb. 17-22 at the Joyce Theater.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/02/13/sydney_dance_company_begins_us_tour (664 words)

	Sydney Olympic Games Information - GamesInfo - Dance
		The company’s recent successes in Europe and the United States of America have confirmed that The Australian Ballet is truly one of the world’s leading ballet companies.
		Sydney Dance Company tends to reflect the way Australians are increasingly perceived - not simply robust and athletic, but also stylish and witty, street smart and ingenious, and always energetic.
		Founder and Artistic Director of this dance theatre company, Mr Lin Hwai-min is one of the most renowned choreographers in Asia, often drawing his inspiration from Asian myths, legends and folklore and blending traditional theatre elements with Western dance techniques to create a unique dance style that is both distinctive and exciting.
	www.gamesinfo.com.au /text/of/01/AREN07.html (1736 words)

	JCCC General Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Sydney Dance Company, directed by world-renowned dancer and choreographer Graeme Murphy, will perform Ellipse, a suite of seven dances set to a selection of music by the prolific young Australian composer Matthew Hindson, at 8 p.m.
		While the dances are driven by music rather than narrative, the unrelated dances are in fact stories of love, contemplation, rivalry and longing displayed as engulfing embraces, energetic leaps and even the hint of a hoedown.
		Director of the Sydney Dance Company since 1976, Murphy has created prolifically for his company as well as for the Australian Ballet, Netherlands Dance Theater, a solo work for Mikhail Baryshnikov and the Royal New Zealand Ballet.
	web.jccc.net /academic/cip/Press/releases04/sydney.htm (422 words)

	Sydney Dance Company
		Considering the size of the Sydney Dance Company and the scope of the media attention its six-day run at the Joyce Theater is getting, I know how little this review means to the company.
		However, I also know how much it could mean to a Dance Insider considering spending his or her last $35 to see the NY premiere of "Air and Other Invisible Forces" based on those features in Time Out/NY, the Sunday N.Y. Times or on National Public Radio.
		Company member Brian has appeared in a couple of my works playing his most valuable possession and partner Perry makes the Japanese end-blown bamboo flute at home.
	www.danceinsider.com /f1129_1.html (643 words)

	Dance from Down Under (March 12, 2004)
		T hree years ago, Graeme Murphy, artistic director and choreographer of the Sydney Dance Company, was listening to late-night radio.
		Daring duets and striking sculptural images are juxtaposed with bodies flying across the stage, as the dancing shifts from sexy and humorous to full-on energy, from classical to hip-hop, from romantic to square dancing.
		A vacancy in the Sydney Dance Company is a rarity -- something you don't often find in the world of dance.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/2004/2004_03_12.sdc12.shtml (1440 words)

	Sydney Dance Company
		When the company returns to the U.S. for a coast-to-coast, 10-city tour beginning in February, it will bring the American premiere of Murphy’s “Ellipse,” which was greeted with ecstatic applause and rave reviews when it opened at the Sydney Opera House in 2002.
		Since the repertoire and dancing reflected the innovative energy of its home city, the name of the company was changed to Sydney Dance Company in 1979.
		Sydney Dance Company’s 2004 tour to the United States has been made possible with the invaluable support of the following organizations: Australia Council for the Arts; Australian Consulate-General, New York; Novell; Qantas Airways; City of Sydney; Wallenius Wilhelmsen; and NSW Ministry for the Arts.
	www.ejassociates.org /pr_sydneytour.html (728 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / Lyon Opera Ballet performs 'Tricodex' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The company's 32 dancers come from 14 countries; several Americans are set to join when Forsythe disbands his Ballet Frankfurt later this year.
		While choreographers such as Sydney Dance Company's Graeme Murphy have suggested that one of the problems in dance is that the same ballets by the same choreographers are being produced on every continent, Loukos disagrees.
		While some companies struggle to move between ballet and contemporary dance, Lyon Opera Ballet is known for its ability to master any style.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2004/04/19/lyon_opera_ballet_performs_tricodex (633 words)

	Sydney Dance Company in funding talks. 15/03/2005. ABC News Online
		The federal Minister for the Arts, Rod Kemp, says the Australia Council is negotiating with the Sydney Dance Company to see whether it is possible to resolve ongoing funding problems.
		Labor says the company has a $600,000 deficit and its board of directors has threatened to resign if its financial concerns cannot be settled, a claim the company denies.
		The dance company denies its board of directors has threatened to resign.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200503/s1324034.htm (328 words)

	AUSTRALIA COUNCIL: MEDIA RELEASES: AUSTRALIA COUNCIL COMMITMENT TO THE SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY
		The artistic and financial future of Sydney Dance Company is secure with plans for the company to trade out of its current operating shortfall.
		Sydney Dance Company has provided the Council with its audited 2004 accounts, in which the Directors confirm the Australia Council's financial support 'will be sufficient to allow the company...to continue as a going concern while it undertakes the managed change process necessary to recover from its net deficit position'.
		Sydney Dance Company premieres Grand at the Sydney Opera House on June 1.
	www.ozco.gov.au /news_and_hot_topics/media_releases/australia_council_commitment_to_the_sydney_dance_company (231 words)

	Australian Dance - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
		Australian Dance Theatre are bringing their work to the world through international tours.
		Australian dance draws on many influences including the traditions and history of dance as an art form, as well as the different cultures and trends in society.
		Dance is increasing the prominence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as it is transferred from communities to public theatres and transformed from ceremony to spectacle.
	www.acn.gov.au /articles/dance (807 words)

	Australia Dancing - Sydney Dance Company (1979 - )
		Graeme Murphy was appointed artistic director of the company at the end of 1976 and has directed it ever since.
		Sydney Dance Company's repertoire is made up predominantly of original works by Murphy often with original Australian music and design.
		It premiered at the Sydney Opera House on 28 May 2005 and was dedicated to Murphy's mother who died in 2004.
	www.australiadancing.org /subjects/61.html (402 words)

	Ruedisima Dance Company - Rueda
		Each move was given a name (in Spanish of course!) and one of the dancers (the caller) would call out the name of the move and the dancers would then dance the move.
		The Ruedisima Dance Company (formerly known as the Rueda Dance Group) held classes on Sunday evenings at a small studio in Ashfield.
		As a bonus many "Salseros" have discovered that Rueda is not only heaps of fun but that their Salsa dancing has greatly improved since most of the moves can be danced by just one couple.
	www.ruedisima.com.au /ruedades.htm (384 words)

	Soundguard Stops The Music For Sydney Dance Company Neighbours
		With a carpet-like texture, the Vertiface material used by Soundguard for their TX branded products is a polyester that resists stains, is not absorbent or toxic and is UV stabilised to provide resistance to colour fade, making it popular for noise control in offices, professional rooms and studios.
		Black was chosen for Sydney Dance Company from among the great variety of colours available in Soundguard's textile-faced acoustic materials.
		Since the installation, reportedly not a single complaint has come back across the water to Sydney Dance Company from the neighbouring residential pier just 100 metres away; proving that Soundguard can indeed stop the music needed by some from reaching where it's not welcomed by others.
	www.buildingindex.com /press/0904/soundguard.htm (409 words)

	Travel Channel :: Sydney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sydney Dance Company is an innovative contemporary dance troupe with an international reputation from its many years under acclaimed director Graeme Murphy.
		The company generally performs at the Opera House when it's in town.
		Sydney Opera House showcases all the performing arts in its five theaters, one of which is devoted to opera.
	travel.discovery.com /destinations/fodors/sydney/nightarts_20215_1.html (151 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: Sydney Dance Company Faces Financial Problems
		Sydney Dance Company is negotiating with the Australia Council, Australia’s arts-funding entity, to try to find a way out of its financial troubles, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
		The company has a deficit of A$600,000, due to, among other things, low box-office sales from two of last season’s productions, and there are rumors that the board of directors has threatened to resign if the financial problems cannot be worked out.
		Leigh Small, the company’s general manager, confirmed that the performing-arts board had put up money to secure the company to the end of the year.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/1608.html (356 words)

	AOL Music: Sydney Dance Company
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	Scoop: Sydney Dance Company Returns to New Zealand
		The production is a suite of seven dances set to the music of hot new Australian composer Matthew Hindson, and performed by the company’s 17 dancers, some of whom have been members of Sydney Dance Company for more than 10 years.
		Sydney Dance Company last toured to New Zealand in 2000 with Salome and previously presented Free Radicals (1998), Beauty and the Beast (1997) and Berlin (1996).
		In 1998 he was commissioned by the Australian Bicentennial Authority to create a national dance event VAST — involving 70 dancers from four disparate dance companies — Australian Dance Theatre, The West Australian Ballet, The Queensland Ballet and Sydney Dance Company.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/CU0307/S00037.htm (2348 words)

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