Chunky Move: Keep Everything

“After watching this performance I think the future of contemporary dance is in safe hands,” wrote Dance Australia of Chunky Move’s fusion of dance, performance, light, sound and image, Keep Everything.  The show can boast of many reviews like that, making it clear Chunky Move has the right moves indeed.

Chunky Move describes Keep Everything as a joyous celebration of our desire to connect with one another. Now the genre-defying company is to connect with Adelaide audiences, when it stages the show at AC Arts in July.

Presented by Adelaide’s Vitalstatistix Theatre Company and toured by Performing Lines for Mobile States, Keep Everything is by one of Australia’s most innovative choreographers, Antony Hamilton, who also directs the show. Hamilton’s choreography blends spoken word, repetition and improvised movement to trace human evolution from primates to robots and back again.

Antony Hamilton has an impressive CV. He trained in dance in Sydney, Perth and New York and has performed with Chunky Move in many productions, including Mortal Engine, Two Faced Bastard and I Want to Dance Better. He has created works for The Lyon Opera Ballet, Australian Dance Theatre, Lucy Guerin Inc, Dance North, LINK, the Victorian College of the Arts and Stompin and Rogue. Hamilton was the inaugural recipient of the Russell Page Fellowship in 2004 and the Tanja Liedtke Fellowship in 2009. In 2012, Hamilton was also an inaugural recipient of the Australia Council’s Creative Australia Fellowship and later won the 2013 Helpmann Award for Best Choreography in a Dance or Physical Theatre Production.

Antony Hamilton’s Keep Everything is set to a score by ARIA Award-winning musicians, Julian Hamilton and Kym Moyes. Sound and image are synchronized as Benjamin Cisterne’s lighting design and Robin Fox’s AV design transform the stage into a pulsating backdrop of lights and smoke in a powerful sound environment.

True to Chunky Move’s inventive style, engaging trio Benjamin Hancock, Lauren Langlois and Alisdair Macindoe perform the dance work using humour, the absurd and sometimes vulgar spontaneity to examine the fragility of human nature.

Keep Everything has developed intuitively, with little editing, resulting in a style of dance which demonstrates that, sometimes, it really is important to… keep everything.

Lesley Reed

Bookings: trybooking.com

Full details at www.vitalstatistixtheatrecompany.blogspot.com.au

Dates: July 16-18, 8pm; July 19, 2pm and 8 pm.

Venue: AC ARTS Main Theatre, 39 Light Square, Adelaide.

Tickets: $32 Full, $28 Concession, $25 Fringe Benefits.