“An astonishing performance, tackling Obarzanek’s thrashing, flailing, joint-crunching action like a high-velocity missile, with only occasional respite.” The Age
“A tour de force that will live long in the memory.” The Australian
“The creative team has hit its mark. Bullseye.” Herald Sun
A digital landscape creates a kaleidoscopic setting that interacts with the dancer’s body in real time.
At first, the human form appears to trigger the music, light and animation that surround and envelop it. But is the dancer the master or the puppet? In this totally entrancing, award-winning new work, Chunky Move Artistic Director, Gideon Obarzanek, has collaborated with German interactive software engineer, Frieder Weiss, to imagine a virtual world in which the body is bathed in light and takes on unfamiliar, sensual and grotesque creature states. Every gesture is amplified and extended by the world around it, creating unexpected effects on the electronic environment. So every performance of this illuminating choreographic essay on the interface of humanity and technology is uniquely unrepeatable.
Image: Rom Antonios
Link: Chunky Move
Biography
Gideon Obarzanek
Artistic Director, Concept and Choreography
Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek founded Chunky Move in 1995.
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