Sydney Dance Company’s Somos: intimacy and the art of holding back

Sydney Dance Company in Rafael Bonachela's Somos

By Katie Lawrence, 28 March 2025

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“They prowl behind the gauze bars, pick us off, one by one, flipping object with subject”

Reviewed at Nielson Studio at Sydney Dance Company, Sydney on 27 March 2025

Somos (Rafael Bonachela)

Sydney Dance Company

Kelsey Lee, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Damien Cooper, Lighting Designer

Sam Winkler, Dancer

Luke Hayward, Dancer

Riley Fitzgerald, Dancer

Timmy Blankenship, Dancer

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Katie Lawrence

Katie Lawrence has a background in ballet, jazz, and contemporary, and spent much of her adolescence in the dressing room of dance eisteddfods. She is still mildly triggered by the smell of hairspray. She is now a regular in Sydney's dance audience crowd and can often be found at Sydney Dance Company and Tanya Pearson adult classes.