One of Australia's most prominent performing arts organisations, Sydney Dance Company is also one of its busiest touring dance companies. Led by Artistic Director and resident choreographer Graeme Murphy, Sydney Dance Company has built an extensive repertoire of original full evening productions. With many years of international tour experience, the company has more recently toured across the United States as well as to Mexico, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Singapore and the Peoples Republic of China. Among the most in-demand touring productions during this period has been Graeme Murphy's Free Radicals, an exuberant dance work which showcases Australian contemporary music - in particular the work of composer Michael Askill.

During 2000-2001, the Company toured again to the United States and to Mexico, with Graeme Murphy's Salome and Air and other invisible forces - two productions strikingly contrasted in mood and style, although each featuring commissioned music by Michael Askill.

Sydney Dance Company will premiere Graeme Murphy's newest work at the Sydney Opera House on May 7, 2002. The new work will see Murphy working for the first time with Australian composer Matthew Hindson, in conjunction with a design team which has worked together before (Air and other invisible forces) - set designer Gerard Manion, costumier Akira Isogawa and lighting designer Damien Cooper.

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