The global obsession with a zombie apocalypse has now entered fine art and modern dance. Chunky Move, an Australian modern dance company took home the Age Critics award for best new major work from the 2012 Melbourne Theatre Festival for Act of Now. With aggressive and apocalyptic themes, Act of Now was a high-risk performance. Watch the trailer and then read more about Chunky Move and Act of Now below.
Act of Now was performed at the Myer Music Bowl where an audience was seated in 3/4 surround - each wearing a wireless headphone set. The stage was a glass house which allowed for the dancers to use the walls and ceiling to extend their movements into three dimensional space. The wireless headphones were a connection for the audience to the interior of the glass house.
Chunky Move does not perform dance only peices - their performances are very much total performances which includes technical design, audience experience, and acting on the part of the dancers. Lighting design was by Niklas Pajanti and sound design by Marcel Wierckx.
Chunky Move
Chunky Move is an Australian Dance Company local to Melbourne and founded in 1995 by Gideon Obarzanek, its first choreographer. They operate on a model of "creative porosity" meaning that they are not an ensemble, but rather that creative people and ideas move through through them. in 2012 Anouk van Dijk took over as artistic director and choreographer and produced Act of Now which won Best New Major Work in the Melbourne Theatre Festival. Van Dijk's movement system is known as Countertechnique. Countertechnique is described by Van Dijk: "By continuously and sequentially directing and counter directing parts of the body through space, Countertechnique allows the moving dancer to work with an ever-changing dynamic balance. This dynamic balance reduces the pressure on the overall body structure and can be changed at any given moment."Act of Now
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| Act of Now, Chunky Move, 2012 source: Broadsheet |
Act of Now was performed at the Myer Music Bowl where an audience was seated in 3/4 surround - each wearing a wireless headphone set. The stage was a glass house which allowed for the dancers to use the walls and ceiling to extend their movements into three dimensional space. The wireless headphones were a connection for the audience to the interior of the glass house.
Chunky Move does not perform dance only peices - their performances are very much total performances which includes technical design, audience experience, and acting on the part of the dancers. Lighting design was by Niklas Pajanti and sound design by Marcel Wierckx.
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