CHUNKY MOVE

We're excited to announce that Rewards for the Tribe will be showing at Melbourne International Film Festival on Saturday 10 and 17 August 2024 at ACMI.

A visually beautiful and heart-warming documentary tracing the first collaboration between acclaimed contemporary dance companies Restless Dance Theatre and Chunky Move.

Produced by Film Camp and directed by Rhys Graham, Rewards for the Tribe will be screening alongside the very best of non-fiction filmmaking from around the world.

Rewards for the Tribe An intimate and uplifting dance documentary that ponders human connection and perfection, featuring Chunky Move and Restless Dance Theatre.

Chunky Move in partnership with Goolum Goolum Aboriginal Co-Operative celebrated NAIDOC Week early, delivering our First Peoples Youth Dance Workshops program in the Hindmarsh Shire last week as part of the program’s fourth year – 'Keep the fire burning! Blak, loud, and proud.’

We honour and recognise First Nations culture's strength, vitality, and enduring nature.

People
First Peoples Partnership Coordinator: Ngioka Bunda-Heath- Wakka Wakka, Ngugi, Birrpai
Guest Facilitator: Mitchell J Nalingu Harrison-Currie- Mununjali, Bundjalung, Gunggari
Secondee: Brooklyn Bond- Yorta Yorta, Latje Latje, Dja Dja Wurrung

📸 Elyse Cox

We’re thrilled to announce Chunky Move’s latest Activators commission, Spanning by Sarah Aiken – in cooperation with some exciting partners. 
 
Presented as part of SUPERMODEL by SOFT CENTRE for Now or Never, Spanning is an attempt to reach into and across the volume of air contained in the State Library Victoria dome, exploring the inverse: shadows, gulfs, chasms and voids; reflecting the paradoxical experience of isolation and fragmentation in a frenetically connected world. 
 
Working with the physical space of the dome, dancers reach across the divide with arms and voices, objects and shadows attempt to fill the space, messages are sent out, material and immaterial forms inhabit the empty air. The void is far from vacuous. 
 
SUPERMODEL 
Saturday 31 August, 10pm–late 
State Library Victoria 
Tickets at 🔗 in bio 
 

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Activators is Chunky Move’s commissioning program for small scale and experimental new work, grounded in choreographic approaches to site, space, time and material, with the body at the centre of its investigation. Activators 11 was curated by Melanie Lane and Antony Hamilton. Activators is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. 
 
SUPERMODEL is presented by SOFT CENTRE and commissioned by State Library Victoria and Now or Never. SUPERMODEL is proudly funded by the NSW Government and has been assisted by Creative Australia. 
 
Image supplied by Sarah Aiken. 
SUPERMODEL visual identity by Jingxin Wang and Kynan Puru Watt.

Did you escape into the surreal other world of You, Beauty? We'd love to know what you thought!

Take the 4-minute You, Beauty audience survey and let us know how we can continuously improve the experiences we create.

“a visual spectacle that makes tremendous use of the cavernous empty space … an absolute winner.” – Arts Hub

Take the short survey at https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7876812/You-Beauty-Survey

📸 by Gianna Rizzo

You, Beauty “is unmistakably an Antony Hamilton work, reflecting his ongoing fascination with objects – the choreography around and within the inflatable is typically inventive and ingenious.” – The Saturday Paper

Echoing this, Antony Hamilton writes “I think motion and movement in material things can suggest or echo the movement of many, many things. And this sculpture is quite an ambiguous object, really. It looks kind of like a pillow. It looks kind of like a cloud. It looks kind of like an organ. When you shine pink or red light through it, it certainly looks much more like a heart…”

You, Beauty – closing this Sunday.

🗓️ 1–16 June 2024
📍Immigration Museum
🎟 Waitlist to be notified of the next ticket release tonight at https://2024.rising.melbourne/program/you-beauty

📸 by Gianna Rizzo

★ ★ ★ ★ “You, Beauty is an exhilaratingly original work in which our passive involvement is made to feel suddenly central to the dancers’ stupendously sensual, physically rigorous and, yes, occasionally joyfully silly movement.” – Time Out Melbourne

Closing next Sunday, enter the surreal other world of song, enchantment and dread.

Read the full review here: https://www.timeout.com/melbourne/dance/you-beauty

🗓️ 1–16 June 2024
📍Immigration Museum
🎟 Tickets available for tonight’s 5pm performance or join the RISING waitlist to be notified of the next ticket release at https://tickets.rising.melbourne/you-beauty

📸 by Gianna Rizzo

Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! We wanted to showcase the groundbreaking work commissioned by Chunky Move and Melbourne Fringe's Radical Access program, ~~~~~ “...derelict in uncharted space...” conceptualised by Fayen d'Evie and Benjamin Hancock.

Pushing beyond the confines of perceptual norms and the limitations of space and time, ~~~~~ “...derelict in uncharted space...” won the Green Room Awards Association for Design/Technical Achievement (Contemporary and Experimental), as well as being nominated for Outstanding Work in the same category.

"This award honours the contributions of our entire team of collaborators, a community of artists and designers whose sensory interpretations form the backbone and heart of the show’s generous subjectivity. We’re deeply proud of this collective and extraordinary work hewn from an assembly of trust." – Access Lab & Library

CREDITS

This ambitious work was created by the expansive team of Fayen d’Evie, Benjamin Hancock, Rebecca Bracewell, Luke D. King, Georgina Kleege, Nelly Kate, Andy Slater, Lloyd Mst, Jon Tjhia, Alex Craig, Anastasia La Fey, Aaron McPeake, Anna Seymour, Sheereen Perrin, George Thomas, Lorena Zapiain and Sheri Wells-Jensen, in association with Antony Hamilton, Vitae Veritas, Bryan Phillips, Madeleine Flynn and Charles Gushue.

Image descriptions in alt text.

📸 by Gianna Rizzo

We’re delighted to share that Rewards for the Tribe will be screening at the 71st Sydney Film Festival from Friday 7 June – Sunday 9 June 2024.

A visually beautiful, heart-warming, character-led film, Rewards for the Tribe (official selection Adelaide Film Festival 2023) traces the first collaboration between acclaimed contemporary dance companies Restless Dance Theatre and Chunky Move.

Produced by Film Camp and directed by Rhys Graham, Rewards for the Tribe will be screening alongside the very best of non-fiction filmmaking from around the world.

🎟 For every ticket purchased through good.film, 50% of profits go to leading disability charities.

Book now at https://good.film/rewardsforthetribe

Rewards For The Tribe - Official Film Trailer What is perfection? The search for human connection and the reward of finding your tribe. A visually beautiful, heart-warming, character-led arts documentary...

Due to popular demand, RISING have added 3 more performances of You, Beauty on Saturday 16 June.

Join us in this surreal other world of song, dance, enchantment and dread.

🗓️ 1–16 June 2024
📍 Immigration Museum
🎟 Secure your tickets now before they sell out again at https://tickets.rising.melbourne/you-beauty

Creative Team
Artistic Director: Antony Hamilton
Lighting Design: Antony Hamilton & Ashley Buchanan
Costume Design: Andrew Treloar
Stage Manager: Zsuzsa Gaynor Mihaly

Performers
Samakshi Sidhu and Enzo Nazario

Creative Contributors
Honey Long & Prue Stent with thanks to Robin Fox

📸 Eva Otsing

Introducing Practice Lab: A weeklong immersion into the unique choreographic techniques of Antony Hamilton.

Practice Lab is an exciting new addition to Chunky Move's annual program where participants will gain rare insight into Antony's intricate counting system.

In this weeklong workshop intensive, participants will:

- Take part in daily contemporary dance technique masterclasses.
- Devise complex choreographic sequences utilising the signature staging decks from 4/4.
- Workshop bespoke choreographic techniques influenced by Antony’s unique mathematical approach to movement composition.

Don't miss this valuable opportunity to learn from one of Australia’s most influential and internationally recognised contemporary choreographers.

Applications open at 10am on Friday 3 May. Secure your spot early as spaces are limited and acceptance is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Register your interest at: https://form.jotform.com/240978476890879

📸 by Isabella Oliveria

Rising have released additional tickets for You, Beauty premiering in just over a month’s time.

“You, Beauty is intimate and personal. It isn’t strictly about love and beauty, but there’s a sort of interest in our experience of it, and also of the very intimate nature of duets.

Here’s two people that share a space, and here’s how the world shrinks around people when they’re in love.” – Antony Hamilton

🗓️ 1–15 June 2024
📍Immigration Museum
🎟 Additional tickets on sale now

https://2024.rising.melbourne/program/you-beauty

Week two of our five week development period for Antony Hamilton’s new work in progress U>N>I>T>E>D. In collaboration with the prodigal sons of Balinese experimental techno, Gabber Modus Operandi.

Creative Team
Artistic Direction & Choreography: Antony Hamilton
Sound Design & Composition: Gabber Modus Operandi
Costume Design: Macan Studio
Exo-skeleton Design & Fabrication: Creature Technology Co.
Lighting Design: Matthew Adey (House of Vnholy)
Performers & Choreography: Ooshcon, Melissa Pham, Samakshi Sidhu, Jayden Wall, Jahra Wasasala & David Prakash
Dramaturg: Melanie Lane

With our deepest thanks to
Gabber Modus Operandi
Creature Technology Co.
Potato Head Bali
Via Planet Earth
Wok The Rock
Fionny Mellisa
Manda Pinky
Asia T**A
Playking Foundation

📸 Gianna Rizzo

"You, Beauty is intimate and personal ... It isn’t strictly about love and beauty, but there’s a sort of interest in our experience of it, and also of the very intimate nature of duets … Here’s two people that share a space, and here’s how the world shrinks around people when they’re in love.” – Antony Hamilton

You, Beauty
1–15 June at Rising
🎟 Book now at
https://tickets.rising.melbourne/you-beauty

Read the full article at https://dancemagazine.com.au/2024/04/chunky-move-permission-to-be-beautiful/

Chunky Move: To be beautiful - Dance Informa Magazine Dance Informa speaks with Chunky Move Artistic Director Antony Hamilton about 'You, Beauty,' which premieres this June as part of RISING.

A love letter to dance histories and futures. Chunky Move returns to Rising 1–15 June 2024 to unveil our latest creation You, Beauty.

🎟 Pre-sale tickets close Thur 14 Mar, 11am. Book now at https://tickets.rising.melbourne/you-beauty?promo=7533

Created by Artistic Director, Antony Hamilton, You, Beauty is a performance experience both cavernous and intimate, moving between hard exteriors and soft interiors.

Follow Chunky Move into an inflatable realm. Enter the innermost realm of Chunky Move’s latest work where the walls quiver, and time contorts.

We extend our deepest appreciation to the remarkable women within the Chunky Move community and beyond for your unwavering commitment to the artform of dance. From our exceptional dancers and dedicated teachers to our generous donors, partners, alumni, board members, and supporters, your contributions are invaluable. Together, we continue to redefine contemporary dance, delivering thrilling, boundary-pushing experiences to audiences worldwide.



Image: 4/4, 2023. Photo by Gianna Rizzo.

Chunky Move’s acclaimed blueprint for choreographic precision, 4/4, is making its highly anticipated return before it embarks on an international tour to the UK’s largest destination for the arts, London’s Southbank Centre, and around Europe.

Catch this limited run taking place November 1–2 at Parkville’s Union Theatre as part of The University of Melbourne Arts and Culture’s UMAC 2024 season.

Ticketing details to come – https://www.unimelb.edu.au/umac

Choreography by Antony Hamilton
Sound Design by Alisdair Macindoe
Costume Design by Paula Levis
Lighting Design by Bosco Shaw

Performed by
Kyall Shanks, Melissa Pham, David Prakash, Harrison Ritchie-Jones, Aimee Schollum, Michaela Tancheff, Nikki Tarling, Jayden Wall

Image by Gianna Rizzo

Presented by Chunky Move and University of Melbourne Arts and Culture (UMAC).

Supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Are you an emerging artist looking for a space to expand their choroegraphic practice? On the Table is a safe space to experiment, connect and share with other members of the Melbourne dance community.

Applications close at 11.59pm on March 4, 2024.

On The Table is run by Caitlin Dear and Rebecca Jensen

On The Table EOI - Dancehouse On The Table is a regular event for artistic exchange and collaboration run by Caitlin Dear and Rebecca Jensen. Applications close at 11.59pm on March 4, 2024.

We are so excited to announce that 4/4 is heading to Southbank Centre in London – UK’s premiere destination for the arts. Keep an eye out for updates on our 2024 Europe tour…

This week our friends at Temperance Hall present a triple bill of contemporary dance works by experimental choreographers for Midsumma Festival.

Mara Galagher, Alexander Powers and Val Emerald "talk to the way queerness moves around as ‘experiences' of beauty, decay, chaos and morality, to determine and convey their own internal politics within the domains of popular culture and materialism.”

– Phillip Adams, former Artistic Director Temperance Hall

Feb 8 – 10, 7.30PM
Book Tickets

Midsumma Festival - Temperance Hall Presents Mara Galagher, Alexander Powers, Valentina Emerald Temperance Hall presents six contemporary dance works by experimental choreographers who disparately and rigorously explore multitudes of 'queer’. Presented over two weeks, Temperance Hall's second week of programming presents work by Mara Galagher, Alexander Powers, and Valentina Emerald.

First stop – Barcelona, Spain. The Helpmann Award-winning dance work 'Forever and Ever' by Artistic Director, Antony Hamilton, is joining Sydney Dance Company for an international tour.

As part of Rafael Bonachela's triple bill 'Ascent', 'Forever & Ever' will “lay siege to the senses with a mighty display of shock and awe.” (The Australian).

Set to a sonically stimulating score by The Presets’ Julian Hamilton, 'Forever and Ever' fuses together a killer mix of dance, techno, high fashion and vivid lighting to hypnotic effect.

Exploring ideas of order, chaos, popular culture and human behaviour, this boundary-pushing work is a bold and thrilling theatrical experience.

Check out the international tour dates! https://www.sydneydancecompany.com/performance/international-tour/

Incredible news for our Chunky Move teachers, Prue Lang and Deanne Butterworth, recipients of The Australian Ballet's 2024/2025 Residency Program. 👏

Lang will use this opportunity to commence the creation of her new work POESIS, which brings together two of Chunky Move's exceptional award-winning performers Amber McCartney and Benjamin Hancock, with renowned composer and DJ Chiara Costanza.

Butterworth will crystallise her new work Half Half. A contemporary production juxtaposing rigorously complex dancing with a slowing down of movement, Half Half will investigate the multiplicity of dancing, examining attention, duality, and opposition in physical and mental states of being.

We're thrilled to announce the recipients of our 2024/2025 Residency Program: Prue Lang and Deanne Butterworth!

Both choreographers will receive a $18,000 grant along with access to the Primrose Potter Australian Ballet Centre to support the creation of their new works.

Please join us in congratulating them!

Photo: L, Prue Lang R, Deanne Butterworth