Chunky Move’s award-winning dance work 4/4 will return to Naarm/Melbourne this November, for three highly-anticipated performances presented by University of Melbourne Arts and Culture (UMAC) at the Union Theatre. This limited run gives hometown audiences a final chance to experience the enthralling work before Chunky Move premieres 4/4 in the UK and Europe, kicking off the six city tour […]

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Dance on film can be problematic. Just ask a filmmaker. “Even when you watch the most admired dance films, they don’t have that same sense of visceral and kinaesthetic connection you get when you watch it in a live experience,” Melbourne based director Rhys Graham declares. “In a theatre, you can be 20 metres away […]

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Immigration Museum, Melbourne.5 June 2024. The thing about beauty is that it can sometimes be a tyrant, much as desire and suffering are so often in cahoots. Antony Hamilton’s new work for Chunky Move, You, Beauty, hovers near the intersect. Like a yin/yang pas de deux, it crushes the sinister and the romantic together, compacts […]

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How easy it is to be distracted by ugliness. The daily doomscroll clicks buttons in our brains that tempt us into declinist and dystopian thinking. Yet, turn our gaze from the lurid glare of news drama and viral fanaticism, and we may soon find room for beauty. Having recently spent time with Chunky Move Artistic Director Antony Hamilton, it is apparent […]

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4/4. It sounds like the simplest tempo. But what if there was a deeper dive?  From his early days in the street scene to his present role as the Artistic Director of the Melbourne based contemporary dance powerhouse Chunky Move, Antony Hamilton has spent decades teasing apart the inner mechanics of choreography. With his latest full length work, 4/4, he is seeking […]

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The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.26 March 2023. NEWRETRO is Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI)’s latest offering, a celebrative collation of 21 Guerin works, spanning 21 years, with 21 dancers performing. NEWRETRO was staged in a convergence of the spaces usually reserved for opposing media installations, with performance usually seen in a black box style […]

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Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Sydney.15 March 2023. Sydney Dance Company started its 2023 season with a bang this March at Sydney Opera House, exploding onto the stage with three very distinct works by three very diverse choreographers. Coming together with Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela, whose work I Am-ness opened the night, newly appointed Danish Dance […]

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Ascent, co-commissioned by Canberra Theatre Centre, is an inspired triple bill that will be performed by Sydney Dance Company at the Sydney Opera House from 15 – 26 March, as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations. This exciting first season invites Chunky Move Artistic Director Antony Hamilton with his Helpmann Award-winning work Forever & Ever, along with two world […]

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In 2023, Sydney Dance Company takes to the stage of the Sydney Opera House as part of its 50th anniversary with the thrilling triple-bill Ascent, co-commissioned by Canberra Theatre Centre. Ascent features the work of three leading choreographers in the world of contemporary dance, with the premiere of renowned Spanish choreographer Marina Mascarell’s The Shell, A […]

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Garabari, a new large-scale immersive performance work choreographed by Joel Bray, one of Australia’s fast rising stars, will have its world premiere at Arts House in North Melbourne from Thursday 1 until Saturday 10 December.  Across the globe, First Nations cultures have harnessed the enduring power of ritual to transmit knowledge. Countless generations have undergone rites of […]

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