A note from Anouk van Dijk A new work by Chunky Move
With Leif Helland, Lauren Langlois, Alya Manzart, James Pham, Niharika Senapati, Tara Soh
70 minutes, no interval
www.chunkymove.com Concept, Choreography & Direction Anouk van Dijk Composition & Sound Design Marcel Wierckx Set Design Michael Hankin Lighting Design Niklas Pajanti Costume Design Shio Otani
Chunky Move Board Peter Biggs (Chair), Stephen Armstrong, Jeremy Blackshaw, Anouk van Dijk, Rhodri Ellis-Jones, Jeff Khan, Margaret Parker, Margaret Thompson. Chunky Move Staff
Major Partner
RADIO PARTNER
MEDIA PARTNER
GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
Wine Partner
Supporting Partners
PRODUCTION PARTNER
Chunky Move is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
PRODUCTION PARTNER
CORPORATE ASSOCIATES
REGIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
Vera Moore Foundation
Suitcase Series
Female Director in Residence PROGRAM
Australian Communities Foundation
MEDIA PARTNER
Chunky Move acknowledges the generous support of our donors who have supported the company in the past twelve months: Andrew Churchyard, Jason Craig, Rhodri Ellis-Jones, Jane Henry, Susan Humphries, Jeanette Lefrandt, Gillian McDougall, Carolyn Mooney, Dr Anne Myers, Leo O’Keefe, Margaret Parker, Denise Pedrotti, Linda Wall, Roger Woock and Ms Fiona Clyne, Anonymous (6).
GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
EDUCATION PARTNER
CORPORATE PARTNERS
COMPANY SUPPORTERS
TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS Slome-Topol Family Charitable Trust
ARTIST PROGRAM
NEW AUSTRALIAN COMMISSION & PRODUCTION
PROGRAM PARTNERS
REGIONAL PERFORMANCE PROJECTS
The Danielle & Daniel Besen Foundation COMPANY IN RESIDENCE (Men of Steel)
Tom Kantor Fund INDIGENOUS THEATRE PROGRAM (Shadow King)
Maureen and Tony Wheeler International Program
Jeanne Pratt AC, Rae Rothfield, Sue Nattrass AO, Judith Maitland-Parr THE KENN BRODZIAK ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
DIRECTORS EXCHANGE PROJECT
Malthouse Theatre greatly appreciates the generosity of our loyal Muses for their support of our artistic vision and for helping to create a dynamic environment for artists and audiences.
DESIGN MOTHERBIRD PHOTOGRAPHY Jeff Busby
247 Days
Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk Executive Producer Catherine Jones Business & Program Manager Hillary Coyne Production & Operations Manager Michael Carr Marketing & Development Manager Luke McKinnon Office & Program Coordinator Megan Williams Production & Operations Coordinator Blair Hart Marketing & Development Coordinator Hamish Lane Finance Administrator Anne MacDonald Class Curator Kristy Ayre Front of House Annabelle Balharry, Emily Lochowicz, Phoebe Robinson Publicity Miranda Brown Publicity “Tortures” from POEMS NEW AND COLLECTED 19571997 by Wislawa Szymborksa, translated from Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. English translation copyright © 1998 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Special Thanks Chunky Move would like to thank the following people and organisations for their support of 247 Days: Jerry Remkes, Richard Dinnen, Kelvin Gedye at System Sound, Marcus Pugh at Resolution X, Motherbird, Ellen Strasser, Gabby O’Connor, Anna Pontelandolfo, Marco Cher-Gibard, Jeff Busby and all the friends, family and staff who volunteered to be photographed in the first development of this project.
Board of Directors Simon Westcott (Chair), John Daley (Deputy Chair), Frankie Airey, Michele Levine, Ian McRae, Sarah Morgan, Thea Snow, Sigrid Thornton, Kerri Turner, Leonard Vary. Artistic Director Marion Potts Executive Producer Jo Porter Associate Artist (Design) Paul Jackson Associate Artist (Direction) Matthew Lutton Associate Artist (Writing) Van Badham Company Managers Lucy Birkinshaw & Nina Bonacci Associate Producer Josh Wright Administrator Narda Shanley Finance Manager Mario Agostinoni Finance Administrator Liz White Finance Assistant Connie Stella Marketing and Communications Manager Lisa Scicluna Digital Strategy & Marketing Coordinator Carl Nilsson-Polias Development Manager Jaclyn Birtchnell Philanthropy Manager Nicole Punte Development and Marketing Assistant Hiroki Kobayashi Media Manager Maria O’Dwyer Ticketing Manager Emma Howard Ticketing Assistant Lauren White Youth and Education Program Clare Watson Executive Assistant Emily Fiori Audience Development Consultant Jason Tamiru Building Manager Peter Mandersloot Bar Manager Cherry Rivers Front of House Managers Tristan Watson & Sean Ladhams Production Manager David Miller Technical Manager Baird McKenna Operations Manager Dexter Varley Head Electrician Stewart Birkinshaw Campbell Head Mechanist Andy Moore Theatre Technician Nathaneal Bristow Head of Wardrobe Amanda Carr Wardrobe Assistant Chloe Greaves Workshop Supervisor David Craig Steel Fabricator Goffredo Mameli Scenic Artist Patrick Jones Props Master Ross Murray (lifetime recognition) Front of House/Bar Staff Leeor Adar, Matt Adair, Claire Beynon, Jacqui Brown, Ben Carollo, Mimi Catterns, Kathryn Delaney, Tom Dent, Carla Di Stefano, Alice Dixon, Graham Downey, Tanja George, Christian Grant, Josh Green, Kate Gregory, Simon Jeanes, Bridie McCarthy, Ian Michael, Anna Nalpantidis, Daniel Newell, Ruby Nolan, Syrie Payne, Kliment Poposki, Beck Rafferty, Claire Richardson, Sanne Rodenstein, Kathryn Stuckey, Phoebe Taylor, Jade Thomson, Lee Threadgold. Box Office Staff Jo Bassilios, Liz Bastian, Paul Buckley, Mark Byrne, Dan Giovannoni, Kate Gregory, Suzie Hardgrave, Michelle Hines, Ian Michael, Fiona Wiseman, Liz White. Malthouse Theatre would like to acknowledge the people of the Kulin nation on whose land this work is being presented. Vale Marc Psaila, our Company Manager, much loved and greatly missed.
15-23 MARCH
www.malthousetheatre.com.au
Production Manager Michael Carr Stage Manager Blair Hart Assistant Stage Manager Megan Fitzgerald Sound Operator Nigel Brown Lighting Operator Stuart Birkinshaw Campbell Assistant to the Choreographer Chimene Steele-Prior Countertechnique Teacher Birgit Gunzl
Chunky Move’s multi-tiered programming initiatives foster and support a strong and vibrant dance culture in its home city of Melbourne, and also creates critically acclaimed and popular larger productions for touring.
WORLD PREMIERE Merlyn Theatre The Malthouse 15-23 March
Malthouse Theatre presents an adventurous annual program of contemporary theatre, using high-octane performance as its currency. Tackling public subjects and themes that energise our thinking and quicken our emotion, the works are as provocative as they are fun, as visceral as they are affirming, and always a little irreverent. It’s funny how you read yourself in the faces of others. There are so many sides of ourselves that we do not allow others to see. Still, our emotions invariably seep through one way or the other. An oddly timed laugh, eyes sparkling or turning away, an unexpected hug, a sentence stopped short – it’s these miniature moments where people are not in control of themselves that stay with us and trigger the imagination. Through a tiny crack in time, they expose a private world that is as meaningful and real as that which we so carefully choose to present. It’s this hidden inner world that fascinates me, as well as the way we each try to control and channel it.
In 2012 Chunky Move entered a new period of artistic leadership under the guidance of Artistic Director, Anouk van Dijk, having previously been led by Gideon Obarzanek since its inception in 1995. Van Dijk is an internationally acclaimed choreographer whose work has toured extensively throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Her work is daring, innovative and diverse in both its mode and context. A kaleidoscope of impressions echoing in the room, 247 Days blends my personal take on the world with the reflections of my new surroundings. After our first collaboration in An Act of Now, dancers Leif Helland, Lauren Langlois, Alya Manzart, Niharika Senapati, James Pham and I, together with new recruit Tara Soh, took a closer look at what we most passionately love, fear, desire and hate. These many facets often seem irreconcilable, even to ourselves, yet coexist in all of us simultaneously.
Chunky Move has earned an enviable reputation for creating a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance. Slowly, my first year in Australia unfolds. Seasons take shape, names and faces meld together, my bike finds its way home by itself. Although the rhythm of my daily life on the surface hasn’t changed much, living upside down has made me look at things from a new perspective. Surrounded by new people with different beliefs, backgrounds and ways of communicating, I’ve had to recalibrate the image of myself as well as that of the world around me.
Presented by Malthouse Theatre and Chunky Move
A note from Anouk van Dijk A new work by Chunky Move
With Leif Helland, Lauren Langlois, Alya Manzart, James Pham, Niharika Senapati, Tara Soh
70 minutes, no interval
www.chunkymove.com Concept, Choreography & Direction Anouk van Dijk Composition & Sound Design Marcel Wierckx Set Design Michael Hankin Lighting Design Niklas Pajanti Costume Design Shio Otani
Chunky Move Board Peter Biggs (Chair), Stephen Armstrong, Jeremy Blackshaw, Anouk van Dijk, Rhodri Ellis-Jones, Jeff Khan, Margaret Parker, Margaret Thompson. Chunky Move Staff
Major Partner
RADIO PARTNER
MEDIA PARTNER
GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
Wine Partner
Supporting Partners
PRODUCTION PARTNER
Chunky Move is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
PRODUCTION PARTNER
CORPORATE ASSOCIATES
REGIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
Vera Moore Foundation
Suitcase Series
Female Director in Residence PROGRAM
Australian Communities Foundation
MEDIA PARTNER
Chunky Move acknowledges the generous support of our donors who have supported the company in the past twelve months: Andrew Churchyard, Jason Craig, Rhodri Ellis-Jones, Jane Henry, Susan Humphries, Jeanette Lefrandt, Gillian McDougall, Carolyn Mooney, Dr Anne Myers, Leo O’Keefe, Margaret Parker, Denise Pedrotti, Linda Wall, Roger Woock and Ms Fiona Clyne, Anonymous (6).
GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
EDUCATION PARTNER
CORPORATE PARTNERS
COMPANY SUPPORTERS
TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS Slome-Topol Family Charitable Trust
ARTIST PROGRAM
NEW AUSTRALIAN COMMISSION & PRODUCTION
PROGRAM PARTNERS
REGIONAL PERFORMANCE PROJECTS
The Danielle & Daniel Besen Foundation COMPANY IN RESIDENCE (Men of Steel)
Tom Kantor Fund INDIGENOUS THEATRE PROGRAM (Shadow King)
Maureen and Tony Wheeler International Program
Jeanne Pratt AC, Rae Rothfield, Sue Nattrass AO, Judith Maitland-Parr THE KENN BRODZIAK ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
DIRECTORS EXCHANGE PROJECT
Malthouse Theatre greatly appreciates the generosity of our loyal Muses for their support of our artistic vision and for helping to create a dynamic environment for artists and audiences.
DESIGN MOTHERBIRD PHOTOGRAPHY Jeff Busby
247 Days
Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk Executive Producer Catherine Jones Business & Program Manager Hillary Coyne Production & Operations Manager Michael Carr Marketing & Development Manager Luke McKinnon Office & Program Coordinator Megan Williams Production & Operations Coordinator Blair Hart Marketing & Development Coordinator Hamish Lane Finance Administrator Anne MacDonald Class Curator Kristy Ayre Front of House Annabelle Balharry, Emily Lochowicz, Phoebe Robinson Publicity Miranda Brown Publicity “Tortures” from POEMS NEW AND COLLECTED 19571997 by Wislawa Szymborksa, translated from Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. English translation copyright © 1998 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Special Thanks Chunky Move would like to thank the following people and organisations for their support of 247 Days: Jerry Remkes, Richard Dinnen, Kelvin Gedye at System Sound, Marcus Pugh at Resolution X, Motherbird, Ellen Strasser, Gabby O’Connor, Anna Pontelandolfo, Marco Cher-Gibard, Jeff Busby and all the friends, family and staff who volunteered to be photographed in the first development of this project.
Board of Directors Simon Westcott (Chair), John Daley (Deputy Chair), Frankie Airey, Michele Levine, Ian McRae, Sarah Morgan, Thea Snow, Sigrid Thornton, Kerri Turner, Leonard Vary. Artistic Director Marion Potts Executive Producer Jo Porter Associate Artist (Design) Paul Jackson Associate Artist (Direction) Matthew Lutton Associate Artist (Writing) Van Badham Company Managers Lucy Birkinshaw & Nina Bonacci Associate Producer Josh Wright Administrator Narda Shanley Finance Manager Mario Agostinoni Finance Administrator Liz White Finance Assistant Connie Stella Marketing and Communications Manager Lisa Scicluna Digital Strategy & Marketing Coordinator Carl Nilsson-Polias Development Manager Jaclyn Birtchnell Philanthropy Manager Nicole Punte Development and Marketing Assistant Hiroki Kobayashi Media Manager Maria O’Dwyer Ticketing Manager Emma Howard Ticketing Assistant Lauren White Youth and Education Program Clare Watson Executive Assistant Emily Fiori Audience Development Consultant Jason Tamiru Building Manager Peter Mandersloot Bar Manager Cherry Rivers Front of House Managers Tristan Watson & Sean Ladhams Production Manager David Miller Technical Manager Baird McKenna Operations Manager Dexter Varley Head Electrician Stewart Birkinshaw Campbell Head Mechanist Andy Moore Theatre Technician Nathaneal Bristow Head of Wardrobe Amanda Carr Wardrobe Assistant Chloe Greaves Workshop Supervisor David Craig Steel Fabricator Goffredo Mameli Scenic Artist Patrick Jones Props Master Ross Murray (lifetime recognition) Front of House/Bar Staff Leeor Adar, Matt Adair, Claire Beynon, Jacqui Brown, Ben Carollo, Mimi Catterns, Kathryn Delaney, Tom Dent, Carla Di Stefano, Alice Dixon, Graham Downey, Tanja George, Christian Grant, Josh Green, Kate Gregory, Simon Jeanes, Bridie McCarthy, Ian Michael, Anna Nalpantidis, Daniel Newell, Ruby Nolan, Syrie Payne, Kliment Poposki, Beck Rafferty, Claire Richardson, Sanne Rodenstein, Kathryn Stuckey, Phoebe Taylor, Jade Thomson, Lee Threadgold. Box Office Staff Jo Bassilios, Liz Bastian, Paul Buckley, Mark Byrne, Dan Giovannoni, Kate Gregory, Suzie Hardgrave, Michelle Hines, Ian Michael, Fiona Wiseman, Liz White. Malthouse Theatre would like to acknowledge the people of the Kulin nation on whose land this work is being presented. Vale Marc Psaila, our Company Manager, much loved and greatly missed.
15-23 MARCH
www.malthousetheatre.com.au
Production Manager Michael Carr Stage Manager Blair Hart Assistant Stage Manager Megan Fitzgerald Sound Operator Nigel Brown Lighting Operator Stuart Birkinshaw Campbell Assistant to the Choreographer Chimene Steele-Prior Countertechnique Teacher Birgit Gunzl
Chunky Move’s multi-tiered programming initiatives foster and support a strong and vibrant dance culture in its home city of Melbourne, and also creates critically acclaimed and popular larger productions for touring.
WORLD PREMIERE Merlyn Theatre The Malthouse 15-23 March
Malthouse Theatre presents an adventurous annual program of contemporary theatre, using high-octane performance as its currency. Tackling public subjects and themes that energise our thinking and quicken our emotion, the works are as provocative as they are fun, as visceral as they are affirming, and always a little irreverent. It’s funny how you read yourself in the faces of others. There are so many sides of ourselves that we do not allow others to see. Still, our emotions invariably seep through one way or the other. An oddly timed laugh, eyes sparkling or turning away, an unexpected hug, a sentence stopped short – it’s these miniature moments where people are not in control of themselves that stay with us and trigger the imagination. Through a tiny crack in time, they expose a private world that is as meaningful and real as that which we so carefully choose to present. It’s this hidden inner world that fascinates me, as well as the way we each try to control and channel it.
In 2012 Chunky Move entered a new period of artistic leadership under the guidance of Artistic Director, Anouk van Dijk, having previously been led by Gideon Obarzanek since its inception in 1995. Van Dijk is an internationally acclaimed choreographer whose work has toured extensively throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Her work is daring, innovative and diverse in both its mode and context. A kaleidoscope of impressions echoing in the room, 247 Days blends my personal take on the world with the reflections of my new surroundings. After our first collaboration in An Act of Now, dancers Leif Helland, Lauren Langlois, Alya Manzart, Niharika Senapati, James Pham and I, together with new recruit Tara Soh, took a closer look at what we most passionately love, fear, desire and hate. These many facets often seem irreconcilable, even to ourselves, yet coexist in all of us simultaneously.
Chunky Move has earned an enviable reputation for creating a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance. Slowly, my first year in Australia unfolds. Seasons take shape, names and faces meld together, my bike finds its way home by itself. Although the rhythm of my daily life on the surface hasn’t changed much, living upside down has made me look at things from a new perspective. Surrounded by new people with different beliefs, backgrounds and ways of communicating, I’ve had to recalibrate the image of myself as well as that of the world around me.
Presented by Malthouse Theatre and Chunky Move
247 Days Performers
Leif Helland
Lauren Langlois
Alya Manzart
Niharika Senapati
Tara Soh
James Pham
247 Days is Leif Helland’s second work with Chunky Move, having previously performed in An Act of Now. He has also performed in works by choreographers Emiline Forster, Rosalind Crisp, Stephanie Lake and companies including Fling Physical Theatre and Redspan Dance Theatre.
Lauren Langlois has previously performed for Chunky Move in An Act of Now and Keep Everything, commissioned as part of the Next Move program. Other performance credits include works by Sydney Dance Company, Australian Dance Theatre and by choreographers Larissa McGowan, Lina Limosani, Lisa Wilson and Jacapo Godani.
247 Days is Alya Manzart’s second work with Chunky Move, having previously performed in An Act of Now. He has also performed in works by Dance Collective and Opera Australia and has collaborated with Helen Herbertson and Phillip Adams.
247 Days is Niharika Senapati’s second work with Chunky Move, having previously performed in An Act of Now. She has also worked with choreographers Jacob Lehrer, Rachel Arianne Ogle, Liesel Zink, Dean Walsh, Matthew Morris, Sue Peacock and Xiaoxiong Zhang.
247 Days is Tara Soh’s debut production for Chunky Move. She has previously performed with Australian Dance Theatre and choreographers Antony Hamilton, Larissa McGowan, Lina Limosani, Daniel Jaber and Frances D’ath.
247 Days is James Pham’s second production with Chunky Move, having previously performed in An Act of Now. He has also worked with STEPS Youth Dance Company, Alice Lee Holland, Taane Mete, Taiaroa Royale, Ross McCormack and Maria Dabrowska.
Helland studied under Phillip Adams and Becky Hilton and is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts.
Langlois completed a full time course in classical ballet with Marie Walton-Mahon Dance Academy and contemporary dance at the New Zealand School of Dance.
His dance film Subliminal Mind, was selected for presentation at the Reel Dance Festival (Sydney), NEO/NOW Live and Online Film Festival (Estonia) and the Melbourne International Student Film Festival.
Senapati is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts.
Her performances in Be Your Self and Proximity (Australian Dance Theatre) saw her nominated for the Helpmann Award for Best Female Dancer in a Dance or Physical Theatre Work in 2010 and 2012 respectively.
Pham trained in classical ballet at the Graduate College of Dance (Western Australia) and continued his dance studies at the New Zealand School of Dance.
Manzart is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts.
Soh completed a full time course in classical ballet at the Marie Walton-Mahon Dance Academy and continued her studies at the Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts.
Anouk van Dijk – Concept, Choreography & Direction
Michael Hankin – Set Designer
Shio Otani – Costume Designer
Anouk van Dijk is a choreographer, dancer, Artistic Director and the creator behind the movement system, Countertechnique. She is currently the Artistic Director of Chunky Move.
Michael Hankin is a Sydney based Set and Costume Designer for theatre and film. He joins Chunky Move for the first time with 247 Days.
In 1998 van Dijk formed anoukvandijk dc, her own, Amsterdam based, company dedicated to creating work that sought to provide an insight into the many facets of the human experience through the lens of contemporary dance. The company has since gone on to produce twenty full-length works that have toured the globe, attracting broad audiences and critical acclaim. Australian tours of her work include STAU at the Adelaide Festival and Sydney Opera House in 2006 and TRUST at the Perth International Arts Festival in 2011.
Hankin has worked with many of Australia’s most prominent theatre companies including Belvoir Street Theatre, Griffin Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare Company, Sydney Chamber Opera, Ensemble Theatre, Darlinghurst Theatre, Q Theatre, The Seymour Centre, Pavilion Theatre, The Old Fitzroy Theatre and the The Cell Block Theatre. As Assistant Designer, Hankin has also worked with Sydney Theatre Company, Gordon Frost Organisation, English National Opera and Opera Australia.
Shio Otani is a Melbourne based Costume Designer. She joins Chunky Move for the first time with 247 Days. Her designs have featured in productions by Back to Back Theatre, Lucy Guerin Inc, Encyclopedia of Animals, Jo Lloyd, Antony Hamilton, David Rosetzky and Rhian Hinkley.
Central to the foundation of her work and the training of her dancers has been Countertechnique, the movement system van Dijk developed to provide dancers with applied tools for contemporary dance practice. Countertechnique is a movement system that helps dancers think about the dancing body – focusing on the process of incorporating information into action.
Hankin’s work on Truckstop (Q Theatre/Seymour Centre) was awarded Best Independent Stage Design at the 2013 Sydney Theatre Awards. His set design for The Dark Room (Belvoir Street Theatre) was nominated for Best Mainstage Design in the 2012 Sydney Theatre Awards. Hankin’s work in film has also been recognised with Crystal Bear awards at the Berlin International Film Festival.
In October 2012, van Dijk premiered her debut work, An Act of Now, for Chunky Move. The production went on to win The Age Critics’ Award for best new Australian work in the Melbourne Festival.
Hankin studied design at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
Marcel Wierckx – Composition & Sound Design Marcel Wierckx is a Sound and Video Artist, composing music for concert, film, theatre and dance. He was the Composer and sound designer for Chunky Move’s An Act of Now. Wierckx’s work has been presented at festivals and conferences around the world, including the International Computer Music Conference, the International Society of Contemporary Music World Music Days, the STRP Festival and the MFRU International Festival of Computer Arts. He composed the soundtrack for the film Tussenland (Sleeping Rough), recipient of the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival and created the video imagery for Mensa Secunda, a multidisciplinary theatre work, winning the prestigious Jur Naessens Prize in 2005. Wierckx is currently a lecturer at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music.
Niklas Pajanti – Lighting Designer Niklas Pajanti is an award winning Lighting Designer working across a range of contemporary art and performance media. For Chunky Move, Pajanti has worked on An Act of Now, I Want to Dance Better at Parties, Singularity, Tense Dave, Three’s a Crowd and Black Marrow. Pajanti’s work has featured with companies including Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir Theatre, The Eleventh Hour, BalletLab, Brink Productions, Dancehouse, KAGE Physical Theatre, Not Yet It’s Difficult, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Adelaide Festival, and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Pajanti is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and holds postgraduate qualifications in illuminating engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Otani studied dance at the Victorian College of the Arts. She also holds an Advanced Diploma in Jewelry Design from the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE. Michael Carr – Production Manager Michael Carr is the Production and Operations Manager at Chunky Move. Production credits with the company include An Act of Now, Connected, Assembly and Keep Everything, commissioned as part of the Next Move program. He has also toured extensively throughout Australia and internationally with Strange Fruit, BalletLab and Polyglot Puppet Theatre. Carr was artist-in-residence at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in 2004 and 2010, teaching circus, stage rigging, production and stage management. Blair Hart – Stage Manager Blair Hart is the Production and Operations Coordinator at Chunky Move. For the company, he has Stage Managed An Act of Now and Keep Everything, commissioned as part of the Next Move program. As a freelance production and stage manager, Hart has worked with Malthouse Theatre, BalletLab, All Tomorrows Parties, and fortyfivedownstairs. With bluebottle, Hart worked on productions for KAGE Physical Theatre, Tim Darbyshire, Ilbijerri, Lucy Guerin Inc and Australian National Academy of Music. Hart studied production at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Peter Biggs (Chair), Stephen Armstrong, Jeremy Blackshaw, Anouk van Dijk, Rhodri Ellis-Jones, Jeff Khan, Margaret Parker, Margaret Thompson.
Major Partner
MEDIA PARTNER
Wine Partner
RADIO PARTNER
PRODUCTION PARTNER
Chunky Move Staff
Production Manager Michael Carr Stage Manager Blair Hart Assistant Stage Manager Megan Fitzgerald Sound Operator Nigel Brown Lighting Operator Stuart Birkinshaw Campbell Assistant to the Choreographer Chimene Steele-Prior Countertechnique Teacher Birgit Gunzl
“Tortures” from POEMS NEW AND COLLECTED 19571997 by Wislawa Szymborksa, translated from Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. English translation copyright © 1998 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Supporting Partners
Chunky Move is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Chunky Move acknowledges the generous support of our donors who have supported the company in the past twelve months: Andrew Churchyard, Jason Craig, Rhodri Ellis-Jones, Jane Henry, Susan Humphries, Jeanette Lefrandt, Gillian McDougall, Carolyn Mooney, Dr Anne Myers, Leo O’Keefe, Margaret Parker, Denise Pedrotti, Linda Wall, Roger Woock and Ms Fiona Clyne, Anonymous (6).
Special Thanks Chunky Move would like to thank the following people and organisations for their support of 247 Days: Jerry Remkes, Richard Dinnen, Kelvin Gedye at System Sound, Marcus Pugh at Resolution X, Motherbird, Ellen Strasser, Gabby O’Connor, Anna Pontelandolfo, Marco Cher-Gibard, Jeff Busby and all the friends, family and staff who volunteered to be photographed in the first development of this project. GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
Board of Directors Simon Westcott (Chair), John Daley (Deputy Chair), Frankie Airey, Michele Levine, Ian McRae, Sarah Morgan, Thea Snow, Sigrid Thornton, Kerri Turner, Leonard Vary. Artistic Director Marion Potts Executive Producer Jo Porter Associate Artist (Design) Paul Jackson Associate Artist (Direction) Matthew Lutton Associate Artist (Writing) Van Badham Company Managers Lucy Birkinshaw & Nina Bonacci Associate Producer Josh Wright Administrator Narda Shanley Finance Manager Mario Agostinoni Finance Administrator Liz White Finance Assistant Connie Stella Marketing and Communications Manager Lisa Scicluna Digital Strategy & Marketing Coordinator Carl Nilsson-Polias Development Manager Jaclyn Birtchnell Philanthropy Manager Nicole Punte Development and Marketing Assistant Hiroki Kobayashi Media Manager Maria O’Dwyer Ticketing Manager Emma Howard Ticketing Assistant Lauren White Youth and Education Program Clare Watson Executive Assistant Emily Fiori Audience Development Consultant Jason Tamiru Building Manager Peter Mandersloot Bar Manager Cherry Rivers Front of House Managers Tristan Watson & Sean Ladhams Production Manager David Miller Technical Manager Baird McKenna Operations Manager Dexter Varley Head Electrician Stewart Birkinshaw Campbell Head Mechanist Andy Moore Theatre Technician Nathaneal Bristow Head of Wardrobe Amanda Carr Wardrobe Assistant Chloe Greaves Workshop Supervisor David Craig Steel Fabricator Goffredo Mameli Scenic Artist Patrick Jones Props Master Ross Murray (lifetime recognition)
EDUCATION PARTNER
MEDIA PARTNER
PRODUCTION PARTNER
CORPORATE PARTNERS
COMPANY SUPPORTERS
CORPORATE ASSOCIATES
TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS Slome-Topol Family Charitable Trust
Australian Communities Foundation
Vera Moore Foundation
PROGRAM PARTNERS Suitcase Series
REGIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
ARTIST PROGRAM
Female Director in Residence PROGRAM
REGIONAL PERFORMANCE PROJECTS
NEW AUSTRALIAN COMMISSION & PRODUCTION
DIRECTORS EXCHANGE PROJECT
The Danielle & Daniel Besen Foundation COMPANY IN RESIDENCE (Men of Steel)
Front of House/Bar Staff Leeor Adar, Matt Adair, Claire Beynon, Jacqui Brown, Ben Carollo, Mimi Catterns, Kathryn Delaney, Tom Dent, Carla Di Stefano, Alice Dixon, Graham Downey, Tanja George, Christian Grant, Josh Green, Kate Gregory, Simon Jeanes, Bridie McCarthy, Ian Michael, Anna Nalpantidis, Daniel Newell, Ruby Nolan, Syrie Payne, Kliment Poposki, Beck Rafferty, Claire Richardson, Sanne Rodenstein, Kathryn Stuckey, Phoebe Taylor, Jade Thomson, Lee Threadgold.
Jeanne Pratt AC, Rae Rothfield, Sue Nattrass AO, Judith Maitland-Parr THE KENN BRODZIAK ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Box Office Staff Jo Bassilios, Liz Bastian, Paul Buckley, Mark Byrne, Dan Giovannoni, Kate Gregory, Suzie Hardgrave, Michelle Hines, Ian Michael, Fiona Wiseman, Liz White. Malthouse Theatre would like to acknowledge the people of the Kulin nation on whose land this work is being presented. Vale Marc Psaila, our Company Manager, much loved and greatly missed.
Malthouse Theatre greatly appreciates the generosity of our loyal Muses for their support of our artistic vision and for helping to create a dynamic environment for artists and audiences.
Maureen and Tony Wheeler International Program Tom Kantor Fund INDIGENOUS THEATRE PROGRAM (Shadow King)
DESIGN MOTHERBIRD PHOTOGRAPHY Jeff Busby
15-23 MARCH
Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk Executive Producer Catherine Jones Business & Program Manager Hillary Coyne Production & Operations Manager Michael Carr Marketing & Development Manager Luke McKinnon Office & Program Coordinator Megan Williams Production & Operations Coordinator Blair Hart Marketing & Development Coordinator Hamish Lane Finance Administrator Anne MacDonald Class Curator Kristy Ayre Front of House Annabelle Balharry, Emily Lochowicz, Phoebe Robinson Publicity Miranda Brown Publicity
247 Days
www.malthousetheatre.com.au
Malthouse Theatre presents an adventurous annual program of contemporary theatre, using high-octane performance as its currency. Tackling public subjects and themes that energise our thinking and quicken our emotion, the works are as provocative as they are fun, as visceral as they are affirming, and always a little irreverent. With Leif Helland, Lauren Langlois, Alya Manzart, James Pham, Niharika Senapati, Tara Soh
Concept, Choreography & Direction Anouk van Dijk Composition & Sound Design Marcel Wierckx Set Design Michael Hankin Lighting Design Niklas Pajanti Costume Design Shio Otani
70 minutes, no interval
Chunky Move Board
It’s funny how you read yourself in the faces of others. There are so many sides of ourselves that we do not allow others to see. Still, our emotions invariably seep through one way or the other. An oddly timed laugh, eyes sparkling or turning away, an unexpected hug, a sentence stopped short – it’s these miniature moments where people are not in control of themselves that stay with us and trigger the imagination. Through a tiny crack in time, they expose a private world that is as meaningful and real as that which we so carefully choose to present. It’s this hidden inner world that fascinates me, as well as the way we each try to control and channel it.
www.chunkymove.com
Chunky Move’s multi-tiered programming initiatives foster and support a strong and vibrant dance culture in its home city of Melbourne, and also creates critically acclaimed and popular larger productions for touring.
WORLD PREMIERE Merlyn Theatre The Malthouse 15-23 March
A kaleidoscope of impressions echoing in the room, 247 Days blends my personal take on the world with the reflections of my new surroundings. After our first collaboration in An Act of Now, dancers Leif Helland, Lauren Langlois, Alya Manzart, Niharika Senapati, James Pham and I, together with new recruit Tara Soh, took a closer look at what we most passionately love, fear, desire and hate. These many facets often seem irreconcilable, even to ourselves, yet coexist in all of us simultaneously.
In 2012 Chunky Move entered a new period of artistic leadership under the guidance of Artistic Director, Anouk van Dijk, having previously been led by Gideon Obarzanek since its inception in 1995. Van Dijk is an internationally acclaimed choreographer whose work has toured extensively throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Her work is daring, innovative and diverse in both its mode and context.
Chunky Move has earned an enviable reputation for creating a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance.
Slowly, my first year in Australia unfolds. Seasons take shape, names and faces meld together, my bike finds its way home by itself. Although the rhythm of my daily life on the surface hasn’t changed much, living upside down has made me look at things from a new perspective. Surrounded by new people with different beliefs, backgrounds and ways of communicating, I’ve had to recalibrate the image of myself as well as that of the world around me.
Presented by Malthouse Theatre and Chunky Move
A note from Anouk van Dijk A new work by Chunky Move
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