Education and Learning Program
Sydney Dance Company

Engine - Schools Performance

A Double Bill featuring: Rafael Bonachela & Melanie Lane
Fri 20 Aug 2027 11:00 am
Theatre Royal


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Sydney Dance Company's tailored school matinee connect students with cutting-edge contemporary dance performances.

Pre-show talks and demonstrations, plus a post-show Q&A with dancers and creatives, will give students insight into the creative process and careers in the performing arts.

Engine's Schools Performance will feature Love Lock and The Journey Itself is Home.

Rafael Bonachela presents The Journey Itself is Home, a new work featuring music by Grammy Award-winning composer Bryce Dessner and inspired by 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō.

Acclaimed choreographer Melanie Lane’s Love Lock, is a re-imagined folk dance of the future, drawing upon collective experiences of diverse cultures, an accelerating world and disappearing lands. Love Lock celebrates the binding ability of dance to move, warn and empower, showcasing costume design by celebrated Australian fashion designer Akira Isogawa, layered with texture and colour, and a score composed by UK electronic artist Clark.

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A dramatic, high-contrast studio photograph of five contemporary dancers wearing beige, skin-toned athletic crop tops and briefs against a stark black background. The dancers are closely intertwined in an intricate, dynamic cluster, their bodies, arms, and legs overlapping in fluid, expressive motion. Strong studio lighting accentuates their muscular tone and physical form. The image is framed by a bold, hot-pink border, with a stylized white logo containing the letters "TR" in the upper-left corner.
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Black and white text based logos - Sydney Dance Company, Arts On Tour, The ARt House, Creative Australia, NSW Government, Arts Tasmania
The Sydney Dance Company 2026 National Tour has been assisted by the Sydney Dance Company Touring Fund well as the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

Engine Tour presenting partner -The Art House, Wyong.
Fran Diaz’s The Mass Ornament is generously supported by Sydney Dance Company’s Visionary Patron, the Clegg Foundation.
The Mass Ornament was commissioned by Hessisches Staatsballet and performed in Australia with its kind permission.
Love Lock was originally supported as part of Sydney Dance Company’s TwoFold season, by Visionary Patron, the Clegg Foundation.
Tickets

Tickets $20 per student.
One free teacher/carer will be allocated per 10 students.
Additional teachers/carers charged at $20 per person.


*all bookings will incur a $6.95 transaction fee 

Duration

120 mins (no interval)

Patron Advice
  • All ages
  • Theatrical smoke, haze and strobe lighting

For wheelchair, accessible seating and Companion Card bookings, please contact our Box Office on (03) 6146 3300 or boxoffice@theatreroyal.com.au