For Sydney Dance Company’s latest production, Somos, its artistic director, Rafael Bonachela, is reflecting on his past. Somos (“we are” in Spanish) sees Bonachela return to his Catalan roots, embracing a contemporary flamenco-inspired score and choreography that is a “moving reflection” of his early years in Spain.
The choreographer and curator left home as a teenager to begin his career as a touring dancer. Before he departed his small home town of La Garriga, his mother gave him a gold pendant with his vital information engraved on the back as a form of protection. Here Bonachela tells us about that gift, as well as the story of two other important personal belongings.
