CHUNKY MOVE in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Dance studio

CHUNKY MOVE

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9645 5188

Address: 111 Sturt St 3006 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.chunkymove.com/

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25.01.2022 SIMULCAST has been shortlisted in the Australian Dance Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Community Dance (2019). Congratulations to the rest of the team wh...o brought it together and the performers! Conceptualized and directed by Alice Lee Holland, SIMULCAST is a study in simplicity. Young, old, trained and untrained dancers work together to create this murmuration, taking place in Melbourne at Birrarung Marr. Created and produced by Chunky Move in association with Tasdance and Yellow Wheel, SIMULCAST is a solo for celebrated Australian dancer James O’Hara, supported by a local cast of hundreds. A reflection on the fact that we are all part of something bigger and increasingly removed from a sense of human connectedness SIMULCAST brings us back. It is a contradiction. It is about the single and the multiple, minimalism and spectacle. Visually beautiful and aesthetically satisfying, solo movements trigger mass cannons, ricochets and swarms. Amidst moments of unity and discord we must listen to one another and respond. Watch as one moving body multiplies into hundreds. SIMULCAST was presented as part of Dance Massive 2019. Photos by Pippa Samaya

25.01.2022 Stephanie Lake Company is calling for people to be part of MULTIPLY. Presented in conjunction with Melbourne Fringe, MULTIPLY is a new mass, physically distanced, post-lockdown, contemporary dance event. No professional experience necessary. Saturday, 28 November 2020. Register here: https://melbournefringe.com.au/event/multiply/ Image: Rhys Graham

22.01.2022 Choose your era #25in2020. A LIMITED EDITION ARCHIVE RAVISHING, WEARABLE CHUNKY MOVE MOMENT

21.01.2022 Commissioned by Victoria Together and created in partnership with COCO and MAXIMILIAN, we bring you a series of online Guided Movement Classes. These intriguing participatory experiences, led by six dance artists feature unique locations, inviting you into some of Melbourne's less familiar spaces. View the series here: https://bit.ly/3c29Oq4

20.01.2022 Starting today: Chunky Move's much awaited, week-long residency at MPavilion Monash! From Monday 25 to Saturday 30 January, dancers Michaela Tancheff, Jayden Wa...ll and Adrien Tucker will work with Chunky Move Artistic Director Antony Hamilton to explore ideas and performance principles that evolved as part of CHOREOLAB 2020a workshop led by Japanese performance collective, Contact Gonzo. Register online to attend in person, or tune in via live stream to watch the dancers respond to the architecture of OMA / Rem Koolhaas & David Gianotten’s MPavilion, climbing on and over the siteand each otherin highly physical improvised movement sequences. https://mpavilion.org/program/chunky-move-monash-showing/

15.01.2022 Always Was, Always Will Be. This week is about celebrating the work, history and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Chunky Move is located on the unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri people. We are committed to supporting the continuity of culture and relationship to this land.... NAIDOC Week is celebrated by local community events taking place across Australia. Get involved here: www.naidoc.org.au

10.01.2022 Artistic Director Antony Hamilton in The Saturday Paper. Read online or pick up at your local store in print.

10.01.2022 Tune in to ABC Melbourne Radio this morning at for a chat between current and founding Artistic Directors Antony Hamilton and Gideon Obarzanek. 10:30am on Mornings with Virginia Trioli. Tune your dial to 774, or listen here: https://abc.net.au/radio/melbourne/live/... Images: Antony Hamilton in I Want To Dance Better At Parties (2004), photo by Igor Sapina Gideon Obarzanek in Faker (2010), photo by Heidrun Lohr

08.01.2022 Scenes from the studios in Melbourne and Adelaide. This week we have been virtually traversing state borders in development for a new work by Antony Hamilton, Rewards for The Tribe. Rewards for the Tribe is a collaboration between Chunky Move and Restless Dance Theatre. Concept, Direction & Choreography: Antony Hamilton... Dancers, Restless Dance Theatre: Chris Dyke, Jianna Georgiou, Michael Hodyl, Chunky Move: Benjamin Hancock, Cody Lavery Sound Designer and Composer: Aviva Endean Set & Costume Designer: Jonathon Oxlade Lighting Designer: Jenny Hector Audio Technician: Nick Roux Rehearsal Director (Restless): Larissa McGowan Understudy (Restless): Charlie Wilkins Performer Stand In (Restless): Zoe Gay See more

07.01.2022 DEEP DIVE THE ARCHIVE https://cmarchive.net/ In a speech to mark the launch of Chunky Move, then-Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett described the company as "provocative, innovative, daring and very, very physical." He hadn't seen any of the work he was describing, but when he did he admitted he was understandably miffed at the result. There is a strain of contemporary dance that is apolitical, abstract and easily digestible. Chunky Move has never been that. - John Bailey ... In this, the company’s 25th year and one that for many reasons will go down in history, we began a collaborative process of collating records and documentation to honour the legacy, people and works of Chunky Move. And today we launch https://cmarchive.net/ We hope you enjoy deep diving into this archive and trust it will transport you back to 1995 #25in2020

06.01.2022 Stephanie Lake Company are hiring an Executive Producer. Find out more here: https://www.stephanielake.com.au/opportunities

05.01.2022 TUNE IN TO Triple R - 3RRR 102.7FM THIS MORNING for a chat with Executive Director and previous Chunky Move dancer, Kristy Ayre. 10:00AM on Smart Arts with Richard Watts. Click here: https://www.rrr.org.au/ to listen or tune your dial to 102.7 FM. Kristy Ayre in Glow, 2006. Photo by Rom Anthoni. Take a deeper look at Glow on our archive here: https://cmarchive.net/list-of-works/glow

04.01.2022 A quadranscentennial archive ravishing, wearable Chunky Move moment. In celebration of our 25th anniversary year, the t-shirts are a revision in rebuking traditional notions of dance. Like a deep net trawl, these items provide a distillation of all things passed while focusing very much on the next chapter. Six Limited edition designs. Limited run. Future historic.... Designed in collaboration with PRACTISE STUDIO PRACTISE and locally screen printed in Footscray. Click here to select your era: https://chunky-move-merch.myshopify.com/

02.01.2022 Were you there on 16.10.19? One year on from the premiere of Antony Hamilton's Token Armies, today we look at it from a different place and pace. Perhaps an entirely other lens we never knew. The first work by Hamilton as Artistic Director of Chunky Move, Token Armies gestures to the fundamental shifts in the passing of time, the carriage of culture, and the labour of continuing the work of living. Below are some captured moments of Token Armies. You'll see a horde of var...ied lifeforms - some blurring boundaries between human, animal and machine. They complete actions and rituals that appear simultaneously alien and eerily familiar as they strive collectively towards an unknown goal. Token armies was presented by Chunky Move and Arts House in association with Creature Technology Company. Commissioned by Rising.

01.01.2022 https://mpavilion.org/program/chunky-move-monash-showing/