I was 18 and they brought me back in two different ways. They still want to have careers, they still want to be out there being successful. Lindsay Arnold and Witney Carson both sat out season 29 in while expecting. The Catch 21 star opened up in February about her desire to return to the ballroom. Ahead of the premiere of season 30 in September , both Arnold and Carson were announced as returning pros.
In order to view the gallery, please allow Manage Cookies. For access to all our exclusive celebrity videos and interviews — Subscribe on YouTube! Even though da Costa had stopped dancing, the dancer within her had not disappeared.
Nearly four decades after she last appeared on stage as part of the Sydney Dance Company in Scheherazade in , da Costa will dazzle audiences once more. Credit: James Brickwood. Da Costa was a principal dancer with the Australian Ballet Company but was enticed to join the Sydney Dance Company in at 19, by then artistic director and legendary Australian choreographer Graeme Murphy. She had long admired Murphy and went on to perform in his pivotal early works. They opened her eyes, she says, to new ways of understanding how she could use her body and the infinite possibilities of dance to create meaning.
Da Costa initially found it hard not to envy the younger dancers as they moved seemingly effortlessly in her ballet class. As well as the physical preparation she has also taken up jazz dancing, hot yoga and pilates , she also felt the weight of expectation on her shoulders.
She has accepted elegance and grace as her motto, over the technicality she perfected in her past. Younger dancers have great speed and power at their disposal, but older dancers command the stage through a quiet elegance. When we speak, ahead of her return to the Sydney Dance Company rehearsal room, da Costa thinks she will feel intimidated returning to her old haunt. Sheree da Costa rehearsing for Us Credit: Pedro Greig.
Credit: Fairfax Media. Us 50 chorographer and former company dancer Gideon Obarzanek says he was interested in creating a work that explored how dance is passed on from one person to another, from the older to the younger generation, and even through to amateurs. The past, present and future of dance will overlap in the show set to an electronic score by UK musician Clark.
And with her experience, da Costa will also embody on stage a major part of the history of the Sydney Dance Company. Dutch choreographer Jaap Flier directed the company from and Murphy was appointed as artistic director in with his partner Janet Vernon as its associate director. Murphy would lead the company for some three decades, changing its name to the Sydney Dance Company and turning it into an internationally recognised, successful and innovative troupe known for its cutting-edge, unconventional style.
The Sydney Morning Herald dance critic Jill Sykes says Murphy nurtured an "idiosyncratic family of diverse performers" — one that stood apart from other Australian and international dance companies. A spark of enriching humour was never far away," Sykes says. The electric energy is extraordinary. It takes me at least 20 minutes to settle after the last curtain call.
A Murphy work may not be specifically Australian in content, yet the company itself had such a strong character under his leadership that it stood out as Australian — applauded as such at home and overseas. Sykes says with more guest choreographers and collaborators, the company has an international, up-to-the-minute style. The sheer quality of the dancing, she says, continues to set the Sydney Dance Company apart. The long-term subscriber says the signature quality of the Sydney Dance Company is an honest, pure and palpable connection with the audience.
Credit: Fiona-Lee Quimby. The sense of energy is one that Kip Gamblin, an alumni dancer in Us 50, knows well.
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