A note from Anouk van Dijk Interaction is innate in humans. We love company, and in today’s plugged in and connected culture, we are in endless conversations with one another. Our screen driven worlds allow us to capture and manipulate how we are perceived to the point which our interactions are increasingly mediated. Outside of the chatter I wondered how, within the frames of the screen, as mirror, we find a position for ourselves that corresponds to what is seen and what we allow ourselves to expose. There is so often a discrepancy between what we see and what is being experienced; the point between understanding and misunderstanding is so narrow. The screen is crucial and seductive to how we as viewers map ourselves in the image of the other. The pose becomes fetish and the screen an icon maker. The on and off screen space in L U C I D works as the generator for Lauren Langlois and Stephen Phillips to form and then extinguish some of the countless alter egos they embody. Accessing influences from heroes to antiheroes, they relentlessly create, monitor and charge their imagined worlds. Both performers negotiate and define the boundaries in a continued conversation from within two sides of the self: revulsion and empathy often exist in the same moment. In L U C I D we explore the attraction of duality, the masculine, the feminine, the exposed and the secret, the clarity and the chaos of impressions and expectations. This inner world is highly energetic, charged with mood swings and impressions as the performers move between public and private selves, portraits and landscapes.
Chunky Move
Chunky Move Staff
Over the past 20 years, Chunky Move – Victoria’s flagship contemporary dance company – has earned an enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance.
Artistic Director & CEO Anouk van Dijk Executive Director Vanessa Pigrum Company Producer Hillary Coyne Office & Program Coordinator Benjamin Ryan Marketing & Development Manager Pauline Robert Marketing & Public Programs Coordinator Caroline Scales Production & Operations Manager Michael Carr Production & Operations Coordinator Blair Hart Artistic Associate Tara Jade Samaya Finance Administrator Anne MacDonald Class Coordinator Jo Lloyd Front of House Staff Annabelle Balharry, Abbey Barnes, Elena Benthaus, Rebecca Jensen, Andrew Treloar, Jasmin Treloar Publicity Miranda Brown Publicity Pty Ltd
Led by internationally acclaimed choreographer, Anouk van Dijk, Chunky Move’s multi-tiered programming initiatives underpin a vibrant dance culture in Melbourne, creating popular productions for presentations nationally and internationally. Chunky Move has toured to 40 countries and 117 cities and its international collaborations have become an essential part of the Company’s identity. Chunky Move believes in providing opportunities and creative challenges for dance artists at every stage of their career. We therefore run an extensive program of performer and choreographic development initiatives including our celebrated Next Move program, which commissions a new work by an independent choreographer each year. Chunky Move would like to acknowledge the generosity of our donors who support the Company’s work. A warm thank you to our major donors: Jane Badler, Daniel and Danielle Besen (Next Move Leaders), Peter and Mary Biggs (Next Move Leaders), Leigh O’Neill, Rosemary Forbes and Ian Hocking, Jeremy Blackshaw, Anouk van Dijk, Rose Hiscock. And to our supporters: Margaret Anderson, Annie Dawson, Sue Donnelly, Dennis Freeman, Victoria Barker, Wendy Batchelor, John Carr, Gordon Conochie, Jason Craig, Eloise Curry, Helen Forrester, Bruce Griffiths, Susan McKeand Humphries, Catherine Jones, Lucy Mariani, Gillian and Ian McDougall, Teena Munn, Margaret Parker, Maria Ryan, Yue Wang, Sue Westwood, Les and Monique Williamson, Anonymous (47). Chunky Move Board Leigh O’Neill (Chair), Anouk van Dijk, Jeremy Blackshaw, Michelle Brooks, Sue Donnelly, Rhod Ellis-Jones, Rose Hiscock, Jeff Khan, Roger Poole.
Special Thanks Chunky Move would like to thank the following people and organisations for their support of L U C I D: Mark Benson (System Sound), Kerry Saxby and Allan Hirons (Melbourne Theatre Company), as well as our team of volunteers: Ray Barnard, Milijana Canear, Megan Chippendale, Tully Doole, Indra Haas, Toni Jenner, Hui Ling, Jennifer Ma, Leigh Mac Laughlin, Kirby Macknill, Charlotte Salusinszky, Josephine Zito Connect with us Web: chunkymove.com Facebook: /CHUNKYMOVE Twitter and Instagram: @chunkymove #lucid2016 #chunkymove
Chunky Move is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; and supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
Major Partner
Wine & Beer Partners
Radio Partner
Supporting Partners
Production Partners
chunkymove.com