| Year and length: | 2025 – 55’ (European premiere) |
|---|---|
| Artistic direction and choreography: | Antony Hamilton |
| Sound design and composition: | Gabber Modus Operandi |
| Costume design: | Future Loundry |
| Exoskeleton design and fabrication: | Creature Technology Co. |
| Lighting design: | Benjamin Cisterne |
| Performance and choreography: | Ashley McLellan, Melissa Pham, David Prakash, Samakshi Sidhu, Robert Alejandro Tinning, Jayden Wall |
| Stage design, fabrication and art finishing: | Ashley Buchanan & Antony Hamilton |
| Set and costume LED fabrication, system engineering, electrical system management: | Shiv Geaney |
| External advice: | Melanie Lane |
| Concept art: | Peter Gregory |
| Production management: | Ashley Buchanan |
| Lighting execution: | Nicholas Moloney |
| Sound engineering: | Ethan Hunter |
| Production coordination: | Benjamin Beare |
| Executive direction: | Kristy Ayre |
| Production: | Kristina Arnott |
| Commission: | Asia TOPA, Arts Centre Melbourne Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay Perth Festival |
| With the support of: | The Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advice body; the City of Melbourne, and the Playking Foundation via a Playking Foundation Travel Grant |
Dance
Chunky Move - U>N>I>T>E>D
Description
U>N>I>T>E>D explores narratives around the notion of “machine mysticism”. At the heart of the work lies a synthesis of body, ma- chine and spirit as six dancers give life to lurking energies latent within the built environment; bridging the space between the flesh, consciousness, materiality and transcendence.
The work explores the corporeal connection that human beings have to tools and art objects – proposing that these objects are sacred signifiers of a spiritual connection humans have with the built environment. It imagines both deep-past and far-future in order to highlight the unending nature of this connection, allow- ing us to see our own contemporary reality through mythological storytelling.