Who is chunky move

The company broke further ground by making it into the lineup for the Big Day Out music festival in , a moment Obarzanek himself still finds hard to believe. Assembly , his final work for Chunky Move is also represented through a series of photographs taken during rehearsals in , which show a radically different work from the high tech world behind Mortal Engine. The company continues to thrive under the direction of Antony Hamilton today and we look forward to capturing another chapter of Chunky Move's history and its impact on Australian contemporary dance in the future.

Learn more about the Australian Performing Arts Collection. Explore more stories. Close Hi there! Close Arts Centre Melbourne acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which we stand, the Wurundjeri, Woi-Wurrung people, and pay respect to their Elders, past and present. Led by Creative Director and CEO, Sonny Tilders, this exceptionally talented team of designers, engineers, technicians and artisans sets a new benchmark for animatronics with every new project they undertake.

Combining state-of-the-art technology with artistic mastery, Creature Technology Co. Previous creations include the jaw-dropping beasts for Walking with Dinosaurs —The Arena Spectacular, the three remarkable mascots for the Winter Olympics opening and closing ceremonies in Sochi, and the Tony Award winning King Kong puppet that wowed Broadway.

Alice Dixon Alice is a Melbourne based contemporary dancer, choreographer and performer. These works have received awards and nominations including Australian Dance, Green Room and Melbourne Fringe development and category awards.

Aviva Endean Aviva is a sound artist, clarinetist, improviser, curator, and collaborator on interdisciplinary projects. Her practice is dedicated to fostering a deep engagement with and care for sound and music, with the hope that attentive listening can connect people with each other and their environment.

As a performance maker, Aviva curates new experiences with sound by creating unusual, spatially engaged, and participatory contexts for listening. Recent works include creating the sound score for Token Armies by Chunky Move winner of a Greenroom award for best sound for dance , releasing her debut solo album cinder : ember : ashes which became a finalist for the Melbourne Prize for music , creating Sonic Labyrinth an interactive sonic journey at Castlemaine State festival and Melbourne Fringe nominated for a Greenroom award for best experimental sound work and working as Associate Artist with The Australian Art Orchestra as the inaugural recipient of the Pathfinders Music Leadership position.

Johsua Faleatua Joshua is an Auckland-based freelance dancer and filmmaker. He has helped develop, and performed in, dance shows that have toured across New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Germany and China. Alongside being a performer and choreographer, Joshua works at the University of Melbourne as a dance tutor. In recent years, Joshua has developed a keen interest in filmmaking. As a videographer, he has created online content for small businesses such as tattoo studios, clothing brands, barber shops, music and dance companies.

Joshua approaches film with the same exploration techniques and mindset found within the creative process of developing a dance show. Through this dance-oriented framework, Joshua has pushed the boundaries of film creativity and developed a unique style of shooting and editing that, in turn, have yielded innovative dance films. Madeleine Flynn Madeleine is a leading Australian audio conceptual artist who creates unexpected situations for listening.

She has a long term collaborative practice with Tim Humphrey. Their work is driven by a curiosity and questioning about listening in human culture, and seeks to evolve and engage with new processes and audiences through public and participative interventions. Their highly awarded practice intertwines local, national, and international relationships.

They are in high demand as creative collaborators across artforms and industries. They continue to stay connected to their art kin.

His acclaimed works involve a sophisticated melding of movement, sound and visual design, and are contextually underpinned by an examination of a body that is at once primitive, contemporary and future bound.

In , Melanie was appointed resident director at Lucy Guerin Inc. Melanie has received both Helpmann and Green Room Award nominations and received the Leipziger Bewegungskunstpreis and the Keir Choreographic Award for her choreographic work.

Cody then began collaborating with Tasdance on an interactive dance work Trolls, directed by Adam Wheeler. Paula Levis Paula is a Melbourne based costume designer. Gregory Lorenzutti Gregory is a Brazilian-Australian artist and food grower working between the spaces of photography, dance and organic agriculture. As a documentary photographer, he finds and shares stories with an eye for subtlety, human emotion and beauty.

His works have been extensively published and exhibited around the globe. As a choreographer and dancer his interest resides in popular culture, queerness, body representation and in the synergy promoted by a holistic experience between performers and audience.

He is passionate about the land — practising urban farming and organic agriculture in order to give back to nature. As a migrant Gregory believes that working with the land and growing food reflects directly in questions about belonging and identity. It also speaks about the transience in performance and image and re-inform his long-term practices as a photographer and dancer.

She then joined Okareka Dance Company as part of the cast of Mana Wahine , which toured internationally. Talitha Maslin Talitha grew up in a small town in the southern forest region of Western Australia and began dance training at age 4. During her youth she trained in RAD Ballet and contemporary dance. In , Talitha made her professional debut with Lucy Guerin Inc. Talitha has always been passionate about sharing her love of dance with the community.

Amber McCartney Amber is a Melbourne-based dancer. Amber graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in Damian Meredith Damian is a passionate dancer and teacher, with an aptitude for music and sound design, and has trained in a variety of modalities including ballet, contemporary, hip hop, and circus. In , Transit Dance took Damian as a second year contemporary student.

Alongside dancing, Damian works creatively throughout the music festival scene, curating the performance program for Strawberry Fields, and choreographing the opening ceremony for Esoteric Festival. Callum Mooney Callum is an Australian artist working in dance, theatre, and film. Callum also completed a Diploma of Film and Interactive Media focusing on video editing and artistic direction through cinematography. He incorporates this knowledge through his work with video art and projection work for live dance.

Josh Mu Josh is an Australian-based independent contemporary dancer and yoga practitioner who has performed and taught internationally for over 10 years. His movement roots begin in breakdance and hip hop culture, and have expanded to include contemporary, ballet, circus, gymnastics, physical theatre and yoga. Mu is continually exploring potential for new physical expression, investigating the overlap of Arts and Technology, and providing non dancers tools and techniques to encourage movement curiosity for improved health and freedom.

He is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts. Ren is passionate about sharing in the essence of being through his own artistic practice, continuously expanding states that can be experienced individually and within collective energetic exchange.

He has presented two major works since graduating, Contact where he was nominated for best dance award as part of Melbourne Fringe, and Alone. He was the recipient of The Ralph Wilson Residency where he performed his duet work with a musician in Canberra. Jack graduated from Victorian College of the Arts in Kyall works as Associate Director to the pre-professional youth dance company Yellow Wheel and teaches for various schools and organisations around Melbourne, also having taught interstate and internationally.

He is currently Artistic Director at Yellow Wheel. Michaela commenced a Diploma of Dance training under the mentorship of Adam Wheeler then went on to complete her Diploma followed by a graduate program, both at Transit Dance.

Matthew Adey Beizj Studio Matthew is an artist and designer working across installation and live performance including dance, theatre and opera, festivals and events. Adey practices as an artist under the moniker House of Vnholy creating bold, experimental and large-scale installation works that have been presented across festivals such as Next Wave Festival, Underbelly Festival, Soft Centre Festival and annually with Dark Mofo Festival in Hobart.

Beizj Studio is the primary design studio Adey formed with Andre Vanderwert in focusing on collaboration and experimentation in design with new media and technology for performance, events and activations collaborating with artists such as Antony Hamilton, Maxine Doyle, Phillip Adams Balletlab, Atlanta Eke, James Batchelor, Luke George and Melanie Lane.

Alisdair Macindoe Alisdair is an Australian dancer, sound designer and choreographer. His experience in these fields has taken his work to many countries world-wide, earning critical acclaim in the media and receiving local and international awards including five Greenroom awards , a Helpmann , and a New York Bessie.

He has also collaborated as a sound and technology designer for chunky move works It Sounds Silly , Princess , Nether , and Universal Estate. His interest is in work that involves bodies and movement, how light feeds and influences the performing space and collaborations that propose alternate light sources and means. He is also the recipient of 3 Green Room awards for visual design. Projects include; Antony Hamilton — Meeting. Tim Darbyshire — Stampede the Stampede.

Dance North — Attractor. Matthew Sleeth — A Drone Opera. Luke George — Erotic Dance. Throughout her studies she was the recipient of the New Colombo Plan grant which allowed her to develop a solo work in Beijing, China, and also the Choreographic Award in her final year. In she completed an internship with Chunky Move on the development of a new work, and in performed with QL2 at the National Portrait Gallery.

Rachel Coulson Rachel is a Melbourne-based performer. Marni is currently based in Melbourne as a freelance dancer. Classically trained in piano in Italy and later exposed to electronic music after moving to Melbourne in , Chiara has since moved into a well-respected position in the Melbourne Techno movement through her dedication to a refined DJing technique and production of electronic music.

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