14 June, 10 p.m.

15 June, 8 p.m.

Teatro Piccolo Arsenale

Bonachela Dance Company (Great Britain)

Square Map of Q4  [Italian premiere]

project and artistic direction Rafael Bonachela

choreography Rafael Bonachela in collaboration with the dancers

original music Marius de Vries

cast Amy Hollingsworth, Annamari Keskinen, Adam Linder, Cameron McMillan, Sarah Storer, Paul Zivkovich - sets Alan Macdonald – costume designer Meadham Kirchhoff - lighting Guy Hoare - video Alan Macdonald, Paul Zivkovich, Blink TV - production Bonachela Dance Company - in coproduction with Southbank Centre (London), Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona), DanceXchange (Birmingham)  - with the support of Arts Council England (London), Buster Foundation, Foyle Foundation, The Linbury Trust, The Marina Kleinwort Charitable Trust, The PRS Foundation - in collaboration with Just in Time Art Management

Rafael Bonachela defines himself “a movement junkie”, which he regards as being on the same level as an intellectual activity: and it is in the exploration of pure movement, in fact, that he finds his unmistakable style. The result is an incandescent dance that springs from the power of movement, in which energy and muscle strength combine with a great emotional sensitivity.

Born in 1972 at La Garriga, near Barcelona, Raphael Bonachel was not yet 21 when he joined the Rambert Dance Company, the company of an innovative yet classical vocation that constituted the nursery for talents that have formed English ballet. Bonachela remained 11 years with the Rambert, interpreting the work of some of the most important choreographers – Merce Cunningham, Jirí Kylián, Trisha Brown, Richard Alston, Mats Ek – and it was still with the Rambert that he matured his choreographic experience. In the best tradition, Bonachela became a major standard-bearer for the English ballet company, of which he was the associate choreographer from 2003 to 2005.

But what distinguishes and makes Bonachela one of the most glamorous choreographers of the British scene is the savvy mix of art choreography and popular art. In 2002, aged nearly 31, Bonachela taught dance to Kylie Minogue, the Australian pop singer, and produced the choreography for her world tour, Fever. This experience was followed by other “incursions” into the world of pop and rock music: with Tina Turner, for a short film, 21, in which Kylie Minogue appears along with Muse (directed by Tim Meara), and also for a video, Miss Lucifer by Primal Scream, which won an award at the MtvEurope Music Awards in 2002.