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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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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Carriageworks, Sydney.22 January 2022. Antony Hamilton’s work has always contained a curious mix of futuristic post-apocalyptic dread that is leavened with a playful and mischievous artistic sensibility. It’s as if he is inescapably drawn to the doomsday themes of the apocalypse but he also wants to stage an epic rave from the debris of our […]

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Carriageworks, Sydney.16 January 2020. Stephanie Lake’s literally colossal production of ​Colossus​ has just hit Sydney Festival with a bang. From its premiere in Melbourne, in 2018, this work has entranced the world when its YouTube video went viral within minutes of being released. Getting wind of this phenomenon, ​America’s Got Talent ​invited Lake to take the show to the […]

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Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne. 27 September 2018. Colossus is the realisation of a dream for Stephanie Lake, who has always been fascinated by the urban landscape in all its diversity, masses of bodies and the potential for chaos that rarely eventuates. The attraction to use large numbers of dancers allows possibilities to fluctuate between the macro and […]

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Stephanie Lake has been described as “one of the most important voices in contemporary choreography”, with “gutsy physicality and kooky poetics”. With a number of impressive dance industry accolades, including the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship in 2013, and the Helpmann, Green Room and Australian Dance Award, this unassuming woman seems slightly surprised to find herself with a […]

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