founded by artistic Director gideon obarzanek in 1995, Chunky move has earned an enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance. Mix Tape is the third production for the next move, a series of performances created by the next generation of australian dance makers, commissioned and presented by Chunky move. the next move is designed to bridge the gap between emerging choreographers making small independent work and more established choreographers running their own organisations. ChunKy moVe team artiStiC DireCtor gideon obarzanek exeCutiVe ProDuCer rachael azzopardi BuSineSS anD Program manager hillary Coyne offiCe anD Program CoorDinator Prue Beal ProDuCtion anD oPerationS manager Chris mercer ProDuCtion aDminiStrator Josh Sherrin marKeting anD DeVeloPment manager Jade harlin marKeting anD DeVeloPment CoorDinator amanda Bishop finanCe aDminiStrator anne macDonald ClaSS Curator Kristy ayre PuBliCity miranda Brown Publicity goVernment PartnerS
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BoarD of DireCtorS Peter Biggs (chair), Stephen armstrong, rachael azzopardi, Jeremy Blackshaw, Dr Kate Crawford, Dr terry Cutler, rhod ellis-Jones, gideon obarzanek, margaret Parker, Katrina Sedgwick and margaret thompson. SPeCial thanKS Chunky move would like to thank the following people and organisations for their support of Mix Tape: Chunky move Staff, Board, Sponsors and Donors, robin fox, miranda Brown and Kate Barnes from miranda Brown Publicity, heidrun löhr, tin&ed, grant and Delma from try Booking, eduardo from the Print Centre and Kristina Chan. Chunky move acknowledges the generous support of our donors who have supported the company in the past 12 months: Christopher Baker / Daniel & Danielle Besen (Besen trust) / Peter & mary Biggs / oliver Clifton / rosemary forbes & ian hocking / Susan humphries / Jeannette lefrandt / fiona mcgauchie & James Penlidis / margaret Parker / Christopher Popp / robert templar / miss Victoria till
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MIX TAPE Mix Tape is about love. Driven by an eclectic and personal set of songs as well as recorded interviews, this new dance work cleverly illuminates experiences of regret, desire, ecstasy and disillusionment. Mix Tape reveals both the sublime and mundane facets of love in daily life – how we choose each other and the substance of our attraction. World Premiere 2-11 September 2010, Chunky Move Studios Duration: 60 minutes (no interval) Direction & Choreography: Stephanie Lake Lighting Design: Benjamin Cisterne – Bluebottle Sound Design: Luke Smiles – motion laboratories Costume Design: Harriet Oxley Performers: Sara Black, Rennie McDougall, Timothy Ohl, Jorijn Vriesendorp Production and Operations Manager: Chris Mercer Project Production Manager: Josh Sherrin Stage Manager: Melanie Stanton Sound Operator: Marco Cher-Gibard MUSIC CREDITS Bowls, Caribou She Belongs to Me, Bob Dylan* Hey Joey, Pieta Brown O Death, Ralph Stanley I’m New Here, Gil Scott Heron Hand on Your Heart, José González* Small Memory, Jon Hopkins Shelter from the Storm, Bob Dylan* Lady (Falling in Love), Dennis Wilson Tusk, Fleetwood Mac On A Good Day, Joanna Newsom *Courtesy of Sony/ATV Music Publishing
BIOGRAPHIES
A NOTE FROM STEPHANIE LAKE Welcome to our show. Mix Tape is about love. Admittedly I squirm at the cliche but I’m fairly certain I’m not alone in my preoccupation. In a world where so much is faked and fabricated we search for truth in one another, for true intimacy. Love takes pride of place as the meaning of life. It shapes our decisions and fills our heads and despite the potential pain and agony of love gone wrong still we seek it out. Terrible as love is, we’d surely be worse off without it. Creating this work offered me the chance to indulge three of my top fascinations - chorerography, music and people’s stories. I interviewed many friends and strangers as part of this process and I am so grateful for their frank and funny responses to some curly questions. I am overflowing with gratitude to the dancers and designers and all at Chunky Move for helping me to realise this work with such good humour and creativity. Hope you enjoy. Stephanie would like to give huge thanks to Gideon for the opportunity and guidance, Rachael, Jade, Hillary, Prue, Amanda, Josh, Chris, and Mel at Chunky Move, Sara, Rennie, Jorijn, Timothy, Benjamin, Luke, Harriet, Brooke Stamp, Robin Fox, Natalie Thomas and Morgan Fayle, Leniece Boyd, Iris Radovic, Patricia and Alison, Tess Stevens, Raya Slavin, Emma Byrnes, Nicholas Jones, Gerard Van Dyck, Amy Maughan, Holly Harrison, Brianna Kell, Heath Lander and Byron Scullin. To Mum, Dad, Fiona and Anji. For Scarlett and Sapphire, the loves of my life.
DIRECTION & CHOREOGRAPHY: Stephanie Lake Stephanie graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2000 and has spent the past ten years dancing for some of Australia’s foremost companies including Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc and BalletLab. She has toured Australia, Europe, Canada, Asia, the UK and USA. Stephanie won the Green Room Award for Best Emerging Dancer in 2000 and the Melbourne Festival Choice Award for Trike, which she co-directed in the same year. She has been nominated for an Australian Dance Award and Green Room Award. Stephanie has also had acclaim as a choreographer with many commissions for short works from various organisations including Chunky Move, The VCA, Stompin and Lucy Guerin Inc. More recently she created a large participatory dance work for 100 people that was performed in Federation Square in 2009, and a City of Melbourne mob dance for 400 dancers performed in Bourke Street Mall in January this year. LIGHTING DESIGN: Benjamin Cisterne – Bluebottle Benjamin is part of Bluebottle, a design consultancy and project management company, specialising in lighting, set and installations. Bluebottle have been designing in creative and unconventional ways in dance, theatre, galleries, museums, installations, music and exhibitions since 1992. We are interested in extending the possibilities of design and the integration of light and the surrounding environment. Bluebottle draws upon the experience of talented staff to produce the finest outcome for any project undertaken and we love a challenge. Bluebottle has won many awards for their designs, including the John Truscott Award for Excellence in Design. SOUND DESIGN: Luke Smiles – motion laboratories The introduction of a Commodore 64 computer into the family home in the early 1980’s began Luke’s fascination with computers and music. His background as a dancer has enabled him to
collaborate with choreographers through a shared understanding of each other’s discipline. Working under his business name motion laboratories Luke has composed and produced soundtracks for many Australian and international artists and companies such as: Australian Dance Theatre, Chunky Move, Dancenorth, Gabrielle Nankivell, Splintergroup, Stompin, Tasdance, West Australian Ballet and Windmill Theatre Company. Luke’s collaborative commitment to Chunky Move has resulted in the creation and performance of soundtracks for Corrupted 2, All The Better To Eat You With, Live Acts, Wanted and GLOW. COSTUME DESIGN: Harriet Oxley Harriet graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004 where she was awarded the Fergus Chandler Award for Theatre Design. She also has a BA in Fashion Design from RMIT. Harriet’s designs include Victorian Opera’s The Bear/Angelique and Snow Queen, Jenny Kemp’s Madeleine, Tamara Saulwick’s Pindrop, Dislocate’s The Key, circa NICA’s Do Not Pass Go, Sean Curham’s Boxed Spring Picture at the Australian Choreographic Centre and Red Stitch’s Vincent in Brixton and I Am Yours. She has a background in film and television, and has designed costumes for short films and for television series pilot Pharaoh’s Leap. Harriet designed installations for company x:machine’s Senseless and Serial Blogger which received a Green Room nomination for design. STAGE MANAGER: Melanie Stanton Melanie graduated from Queensland University of Technology’s BFA – Technical Production (Theatre) in 2003. Her career has included Production Coordinator for Queensland Music Festival (2005) and Brisbane Festival (2006), and Production Assistant (Staging) for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies (2006) and Doha Asian Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies (2006). Since 2007 Melanie has been based in Melbourne, with roles including Production
Coordinator for both St Kilda Festival (2008, 2009) and Melbourne International Arts Festival (2008), Assistant Stage Manager for Malthouse Theatre and Victorian Opera, as well as Stage Manager for Chunky Move. SOUND OPERATOR: Marco Cher-Gibard Marco is a sound and visual artist based in Melbourne. He designs and works with live digital instruments and is currently performing with an audio synchronised video sampler in collaboration with Rosalind Hall. He has performed extensively in Melbourne and outside at festivals and performance series (This Is Not Art - Electrofringe, The Now Now series, the Make it Up Club and Stutter) and recently presented with Rosalind in Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces (2010) and RMIT School of Art Gallery (2010). PERFORMERS: Sara Black Raised in Canberra, Sara was a 2002 member of the Australian Choreographic Centres (ACC) Quantum Leap youth dance company. In 2005 she completed her Bachelor of Dance at the Victorian College of the Arts. Sara has worked with independent artists Antony Hamilton, Byron Perry, Stephanie Lake, Solon Ulbrich, Neil Adams and Cadi McCarthy along with NYID (Apoliticaldance, Strangeland), Bagryana Popov (Progress and Melancholy), Lucy Guerin Inc (Corridor), Chunky Move Erna Ómarsdóttir and Damien Jalet (Black Marrow), Chunky Move - Gideon Obarzanek (Mortal Engine, GLOW). Sara was awarded a Helpmann Award and nominated for a Green Room award for the solo work GLOW. Sara is also a founding member of ROGUE, a dance collective of 2005 graduates of the VCA. Rennie McDougall Rennie graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2009. Whilst studying, Rennie began working with Phillip Adams at BalletLab. He has since participated in the developments of Miracle and Aviary, with future touring and performing in 2011. Rennie has created work for Lucy Guerin Inc.’s With
the Lot 2009 and Next Wave Festival’s Sports Club Project 2010. He has also performed with Phantom Limbs in The Memory Progressive 2010, and recently performed in Now Now Now as Luke George’s understudy. Rennie received the Australia Council for the Arts’ ArtStart grant this year, and will be touring to New York with BalletLab. Rennie has performed in the Sydney tour of Chunky Move’s Mortal Engine, and he will join the company for the upcoming Asia tour of the work. Mix Tape is Rennie’s second performance season with Chunky Move. Timothy Ohl QUT trained, Tim has worked with: Australian Dance Theatre performing Garry Stewart’s Birdbrain, Held, The Age of Unbeauty, Devolution and Vocabulary touring throughout Australia, and the world; Force Majeure The Age I’m In directed by Kate Champion; KAGE Physical Theatre Headlock directed by Kate Denborough; Shaun Parker for World Youth Day 08, Sydney Festival 2009 and The Song Company’s Tenebrae 3; Opera Australia’s Baroque Masterpieces choreographed by Lucy Guerin; Alice Lee Holland Preparing to be Beautiful; Theatre of Image directed by Kim Carpenter; Meryl Tankard The Oracle. Tim also performed with ADT on Superstars of Dance, Channel 9. In 1997 Tim co-founded Raw Metal Dance Company in Brisbane (assistant choreographer, writer and performer). Tim has also choreographed short works for ADT’s Ignition 2006 and for Company 34 UNSW. Jorijn Vriesendorp Born in the Netherlands, Jorijn Vriesendorp completed a Bachelor of Dance at Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Theaterschool in 2008. Winner of the VanDenEnde Foundation Encouragement Scholarship and the Mary Orloff Prize for Most Outstanding Dancer, Jorijn completed her studies at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2009. Since working in Australia, Jorijn has worked with choreographers Phillip Adams, Sue Healey, Stephanie Lake, Rebecca Hilton, Lina Limosani and Antony Hamilton. Having performed with 2ndToe Dance Collective, Jorijn made her Chunky Move performance debut in 2010 in Mortal Engine.
MIX TAPE Mix Tape is about love. Driven by an eclectic and personal set of songs as well as recorded interviews, this new dance work cleverly illuminates experiences of regret, desire, ecstasy and disillusionment. Mix Tape reveals both the sublime and mundane facets of love in daily life – how we choose each other and the substance of our attraction. World Premiere 2-11 September 2010, Chunky Move Studios Duration: 60 minutes (no interval) Direction & Choreography: Stephanie Lake Lighting Design: Benjamin Cisterne – Bluebottle Sound Design: Luke Smiles – motion laboratories Costume Design: Harriet Oxley Performers: Sara Black, Rennie McDougall, Timothy Ohl, Jorijn Vriesendorp Production and Operations Manager: Chris Mercer Project Production Manager: Josh Sherrin Stage Manager: Melanie Stanton Sound Operator: Marco Cher-Gibard MUSIC CREDITS Bowls, Caribou She Belongs to Me, Bob Dylan* Hey Joey, Pieta Brown O Death, Ralph Stanley I’m New Here, Gil Scott Heron Hand on Your Heart, José González* Small Memory, Jon Hopkins Shelter from the Storm, Bob Dylan* Lady (Falling in Love), Dennis Wilson Tusk, Fleetwood Mac On A Good Day, Joanna Newsom *Courtesy of Sony/ATV Music Publishing
BIOGRAPHIES
A NOTE FROM STEPHANIE LAKE Welcome to our show. Mix Tape is about love. Admittedly I squirm at the cliche but I’m fairly certain I’m not alone in my preoccupation. In a world where so much is faked and fabricated we search for truth in one another, for true intimacy. Love takes pride of place as the meaning of life. It shapes our decisions and fills our heads and despite the potential pain and agony of love gone wrong still we seek it out. Terrible as love is, we’d surely be worse off without it. Creating this work offered me the chance to indulge three of my top fascinations - chorerography, music and people’s stories. I interviewed many friends and strangers as part of this process and I am so grateful for their frank and funny responses to some curly questions. I am overflowing with gratitude to the dancers and designers and all at Chunky Move for helping me to realise this work with such good humour and creativity. Hope you enjoy. Stephanie would like to give huge thanks to Gideon for the opportunity and guidance, Rachael, Jade, Hillary, Prue, Amanda, Josh, Chris, and Mel at Chunky Move, Sara, Rennie, Jorijn, Timothy, Benjamin, Luke, Harriet, Brooke Stamp, Robin Fox, Natalie Thomas and Morgan Fayle, Leniece Boyd, Iris Radovic, Patricia and Alison, Tess Stevens, Raya Slavin, Emma Byrnes, Nicholas Jones, Gerard Van Dyck, Amy Maughan, Holly Harrison, Brianna Kell, Heath Lander and Byron Scullin. To Mum, Dad, Fiona and Anji. For Scarlett and Sapphire, the loves of my life.
DIRECTION & CHOREOGRAPHY: Stephanie Lake Stephanie graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2000 and has spent the past ten years dancing for some of Australia’s foremost companies including Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc and BalletLab. She has toured Australia, Europe, Canada, Asia, the UK and USA. Stephanie won the Green Room Award for Best Emerging Dancer in 2000 and the Melbourne Festival Choice Award for Trike, which she co-directed in the same year. She has been nominated for an Australian Dance Award and Green Room Award. Stephanie has also had acclaim as a choreographer with many commissions for short works from various organisations including Chunky Move, The VCA, Stompin and Lucy Guerin Inc. More recently she created a large participatory dance work for 100 people that was performed in Federation Square in 2009, and a City of Melbourne mob dance for 400 dancers performed in Bourke Street Mall in January this year. LIGHTING DESIGN: Benjamin Cisterne – Bluebottle Benjamin is part of Bluebottle, a design consultancy and project management company, specialising in lighting, set and installations. Bluebottle have been designing in creative and unconventional ways in dance, theatre, galleries, museums, installations, music and exhibitions since 1992. We are interested in extending the possibilities of design and the integration of light and the surrounding environment. Bluebottle draws upon the experience of talented staff to produce the finest outcome for any project undertaken and we love a challenge. Bluebottle has won many awards for their designs, including the John Truscott Award for Excellence in Design. SOUND DESIGN: Luke Smiles – motion laboratories The introduction of a Commodore 64 computer into the family home in the early 1980’s began Luke’s fascination with computers and music. His background as a dancer has enabled him to
collaborate with choreographers through a shared understanding of each other’s discipline. Working under his business name motion laboratories Luke has composed and produced soundtracks for many Australian and international artists and companies such as: Australian Dance Theatre, Chunky Move, Dancenorth, Gabrielle Nankivell, Splintergroup, Stompin, Tasdance, West Australian Ballet and Windmill Theatre Company. Luke’s collaborative commitment to Chunky Move has resulted in the creation and performance of soundtracks for Corrupted 2, All The Better To Eat You With, Live Acts, Wanted and GLOW. COSTUME DESIGN: Harriet Oxley Harriet graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004 where she was awarded the Fergus Chandler Award for Theatre Design. She also has a BA in Fashion Design from RMIT. Harriet’s designs include Victorian Opera’s The Bear/Angelique and Snow Queen, Jenny Kemp’s Madeleine, Tamara Saulwick’s Pindrop, Dislocate’s The Key, circa NICA’s Do Not Pass Go, Sean Curham’s Boxed Spring Picture at the Australian Choreographic Centre and Red Stitch’s Vincent in Brixton and I Am Yours. She has a background in film and television, and has designed costumes for short films and for television series pilot Pharaoh’s Leap. Harriet designed installations for company x:machine’s Senseless and Serial Blogger which received a Green Room nomination for design. STAGE MANAGER: Melanie Stanton Melanie graduated from Queensland University of Technology’s BFA – Technical Production (Theatre) in 2003. Her career has included Production Coordinator for Queensland Music Festival (2005) and Brisbane Festival (2006), and Production Assistant (Staging) for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies (2006) and Doha Asian Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies (2006). Since 2007 Melanie has been based in Melbourne, with roles including Production
Coordinator for both St Kilda Festival (2008, 2009) and Melbourne International Arts Festival (2008), Assistant Stage Manager for Malthouse Theatre and Victorian Opera, as well as Stage Manager for Chunky Move. SOUND OPERATOR: Marco Cher-Gibard Marco is a sound and visual artist based in Melbourne. He designs and works with live digital instruments and is currently performing with an audio synchronised video sampler in collaboration with Rosalind Hall. He has performed extensively in Melbourne and outside at festivals and performance series (This Is Not Art - Electrofringe, The Now Now series, the Make it Up Club and Stutter) and recently presented with Rosalind in Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces (2010) and RMIT School of Art Gallery (2010). PERFORMERS: Sara Black Raised in Canberra, Sara was a 2002 member of the Australian Choreographic Centres (ACC) Quantum Leap youth dance company. In 2005 she completed her Bachelor of Dance at the Victorian College of the Arts. Sara has worked with independent artists Antony Hamilton, Byron Perry, Stephanie Lake, Solon Ulbrich, Neil Adams and Cadi McCarthy along with NYID (Apoliticaldance, Strangeland), Bagryana Popov (Progress and Melancholy), Lucy Guerin Inc (Corridor), Chunky Move Erna Ómarsdóttir and Damien Jalet (Black Marrow), Chunky Move - Gideon Obarzanek (Mortal Engine, GLOW). Sara was awarded a Helpmann Award and nominated for a Green Room award for the solo work GLOW. Sara is also a founding member of ROGUE, a dance collective of 2005 graduates of the VCA. Rennie McDougall Rennie graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2009. Whilst studying, Rennie began working with Phillip Adams at BalletLab. He has since participated in the developments of Miracle and Aviary, with future touring and performing in 2011. Rennie has created work for Lucy Guerin Inc.’s With
the Lot 2009 and Next Wave Festival’s Sports Club Project 2010. He has also performed with Phantom Limbs in The Memory Progressive 2010, and recently performed in Now Now Now as Luke George’s understudy. Rennie received the Australia Council for the Arts’ ArtStart grant this year, and will be touring to New York with BalletLab. Rennie has performed in the Sydney tour of Chunky Move’s Mortal Engine, and he will join the company for the upcoming Asia tour of the work. Mix Tape is Rennie’s second performance season with Chunky Move. Timothy Ohl QUT trained, Tim has worked with: Australian Dance Theatre performing Garry Stewart’s Birdbrain, Held, The Age of Unbeauty, Devolution and Vocabulary touring throughout Australia, and the world; Force Majeure The Age I’m In directed by Kate Champion; KAGE Physical Theatre Headlock directed by Kate Denborough; Shaun Parker for World Youth Day 08, Sydney Festival 2009 and The Song Company’s Tenebrae 3; Opera Australia’s Baroque Masterpieces choreographed by Lucy Guerin; Alice Lee Holland Preparing to be Beautiful; Theatre of Image directed by Kim Carpenter; Meryl Tankard The Oracle. Tim also performed with ADT on Superstars of Dance, Channel 9. In 1997 Tim co-founded Raw Metal Dance Company in Brisbane (assistant choreographer, writer and performer). Tim has also choreographed short works for ADT’s Ignition 2006 and for Company 34 UNSW. Jorijn Vriesendorp Born in the Netherlands, Jorijn Vriesendorp completed a Bachelor of Dance at Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Theaterschool in 2008. Winner of the VanDenEnde Foundation Encouragement Scholarship and the Mary Orloff Prize for Most Outstanding Dancer, Jorijn completed her studies at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2009. Since working in Australia, Jorijn has worked with choreographers Phillip Adams, Sue Healey, Stephanie Lake, Rebecca Hilton, Lina Limosani and Antony Hamilton. Having performed with 2ndToe Dance Collective, Jorijn made her Chunky Move performance debut in 2010 in Mortal Engine.
MIX TAPE Mix Tape is about love. Driven by an eclectic and personal set of songs as well as recorded interviews, this new dance work cleverly illuminates experiences of regret, desire, ecstasy and disillusionment. Mix Tape reveals both the sublime and mundane facets of love in daily life – how we choose each other and the substance of our attraction. World Premiere 2-11 September 2010, Chunky Move Studios Duration: 60 minutes (no interval) Direction & Choreography: Stephanie Lake Lighting Design: Benjamin Cisterne – Bluebottle Sound Design: Luke Smiles – motion laboratories Costume Design: Harriet Oxley Performers: Sara Black, Rennie McDougall, Timothy Ohl, Jorijn Vriesendorp Production and Operations Manager: Chris Mercer Project Production Manager: Josh Sherrin Stage Manager: Melanie Stanton Sound Operator: Marco Cher-Gibard MUSIC CREDITS Bowls, Caribou She Belongs to Me, Bob Dylan* Hey Joey, Pieta Brown O Death, Ralph Stanley I’m New Here, Gil Scott Heron Hand on Your Heart, José González* Small Memory, Jon Hopkins Shelter from the Storm, Bob Dylan* Lady (Falling in Love), Dennis Wilson Tusk, Fleetwood Mac On A Good Day, Joanna Newsom *Courtesy of Sony/ATV Music Publishing
BIOGRAPHIES
A NOTE FROM STEPHANIE LAKE Welcome to our show. Mix Tape is about love. Admittedly I squirm at the cliche but I’m fairly certain I’m not alone in my preoccupation. In a world where so much is faked and fabricated we search for truth in one another, for true intimacy. Love takes pride of place as the meaning of life. It shapes our decisions and fills our heads and despite the potential pain and agony of love gone wrong still we seek it out. Terrible as love is, we’d surely be worse off without it. Creating this work offered me the chance to indulge three of my top fascinations - chorerography, music and people’s stories. I interviewed many friends and strangers as part of this process and I am so grateful for their frank and funny responses to some curly questions. I am overflowing with gratitude to the dancers and designers and all at Chunky Move for helping me to realise this work with such good humour and creativity. Hope you enjoy. Stephanie would like to give huge thanks to Gideon for the opportunity and guidance, Rachael, Jade, Hillary, Prue, Amanda, Josh, Chris, and Mel at Chunky Move, Sara, Rennie, Jorijn, Timothy, Benjamin, Luke, Harriet, Brooke Stamp, Robin Fox, Natalie Thomas and Morgan Fayle, Leniece Boyd, Iris Radovic, Patricia and Alison, Tess Stevens, Raya Slavin, Emma Byrnes, Nicholas Jones, Gerard Van Dyck, Amy Maughan, Holly Harrison, Brianna Kell, Heath Lander and Byron Scullin. To Mum, Dad, Fiona and Anji. For Scarlett and Sapphire, the loves of my life.
DIRECTION & CHOREOGRAPHY: Stephanie Lake Stephanie graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2000 and has spent the past ten years dancing for some of Australia’s foremost companies including Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin Inc and BalletLab. She has toured Australia, Europe, Canada, Asia, the UK and USA. Stephanie won the Green Room Award for Best Emerging Dancer in 2000 and the Melbourne Festival Choice Award for Trike, which she co-directed in the same year. She has been nominated for an Australian Dance Award and Green Room Award. Stephanie has also had acclaim as a choreographer with many commissions for short works from various organisations including Chunky Move, The VCA, Stompin and Lucy Guerin Inc. More recently she created a large participatory dance work for 100 people that was performed in Federation Square in 2009, and a City of Melbourne mob dance for 400 dancers performed in Bourke Street Mall in January this year. LIGHTING DESIGN: Benjamin Cisterne – Bluebottle Benjamin is part of Bluebottle, a design consultancy and project management company, specialising in lighting, set and installations. Bluebottle have been designing in creative and unconventional ways in dance, theatre, galleries, museums, installations, music and exhibitions since 1992. We are interested in extending the possibilities of design and the integration of light and the surrounding environment. Bluebottle draws upon the experience of talented staff to produce the finest outcome for any project undertaken and we love a challenge. Bluebottle has won many awards for their designs, including the John Truscott Award for Excellence in Design. SOUND DESIGN: Luke Smiles – motion laboratories The introduction of a Commodore 64 computer into the family home in the early 1980’s began Luke’s fascination with computers and music. His background as a dancer has enabled him to
collaborate with choreographers through a shared understanding of each other’s discipline. Working under his business name motion laboratories Luke has composed and produced soundtracks for many Australian and international artists and companies such as: Australian Dance Theatre, Chunky Move, Dancenorth, Gabrielle Nankivell, Splintergroup, Stompin, Tasdance, West Australian Ballet and Windmill Theatre Company. Luke’s collaborative commitment to Chunky Move has resulted in the creation and performance of soundtracks for Corrupted 2, All The Better To Eat You With, Live Acts, Wanted and GLOW. COSTUME DESIGN: Harriet Oxley Harriet graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004 where she was awarded the Fergus Chandler Award for Theatre Design. She also has a BA in Fashion Design from RMIT. Harriet’s designs include Victorian Opera’s The Bear/Angelique and Snow Queen, Jenny Kemp’s Madeleine, Tamara Saulwick’s Pindrop, Dislocate’s The Key, circa NICA’s Do Not Pass Go, Sean Curham’s Boxed Spring Picture at the Australian Choreographic Centre and Red Stitch’s Vincent in Brixton and I Am Yours. She has a background in film and television, and has designed costumes for short films and for television series pilot Pharaoh’s Leap. Harriet designed installations for company x:machine’s Senseless and Serial Blogger which received a Green Room nomination for design. STAGE MANAGER: Melanie Stanton Melanie graduated from Queensland University of Technology’s BFA – Technical Production (Theatre) in 2003. Her career has included Production Coordinator for Queensland Music Festival (2005) and Brisbane Festival (2006), and Production Assistant (Staging) for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies (2006) and Doha Asian Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies (2006). Since 2007 Melanie has been based in Melbourne, with roles including Production
Coordinator for both St Kilda Festival (2008, 2009) and Melbourne International Arts Festival (2008), Assistant Stage Manager for Malthouse Theatre and Victorian Opera, as well as Stage Manager for Chunky Move. SOUND OPERATOR: Marco Cher-Gibard Marco is a sound and visual artist based in Melbourne. He designs and works with live digital instruments and is currently performing with an audio synchronised video sampler in collaboration with Rosalind Hall. He has performed extensively in Melbourne and outside at festivals and performance series (This Is Not Art - Electrofringe, The Now Now series, the Make it Up Club and Stutter) and recently presented with Rosalind in Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces (2010) and RMIT School of Art Gallery (2010). PERFORMERS: Sara Black Raised in Canberra, Sara was a 2002 member of the Australian Choreographic Centres (ACC) Quantum Leap youth dance company. In 2005 she completed her Bachelor of Dance at the Victorian College of the Arts. Sara has worked with independent artists Antony Hamilton, Byron Perry, Stephanie Lake, Solon Ulbrich, Neil Adams and Cadi McCarthy along with NYID (Apoliticaldance, Strangeland), Bagryana Popov (Progress and Melancholy), Lucy Guerin Inc (Corridor), Chunky Move Erna Ómarsdóttir and Damien Jalet (Black Marrow), Chunky Move - Gideon Obarzanek (Mortal Engine, GLOW). Sara was awarded a Helpmann Award and nominated for a Green Room award for the solo work GLOW. Sara is also a founding member of ROGUE, a dance collective of 2005 graduates of the VCA. Rennie McDougall Rennie graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2009. Whilst studying, Rennie began working with Phillip Adams at BalletLab. He has since participated in the developments of Miracle and Aviary, with future touring and performing in 2011. Rennie has created work for Lucy Guerin Inc.’s With
the Lot 2009 and Next Wave Festival’s Sports Club Project 2010. He has also performed with Phantom Limbs in The Memory Progressive 2010, and recently performed in Now Now Now as Luke George’s understudy. Rennie received the Australia Council for the Arts’ ArtStart grant this year, and will be touring to New York with BalletLab. Rennie has performed in the Sydney tour of Chunky Move’s Mortal Engine, and he will join the company for the upcoming Asia tour of the work. Mix Tape is Rennie’s second performance season with Chunky Move. Timothy Ohl QUT trained, Tim has worked with: Australian Dance Theatre performing Garry Stewart’s Birdbrain, Held, The Age of Unbeauty, Devolution and Vocabulary touring throughout Australia, and the world; Force Majeure The Age I’m In directed by Kate Champion; KAGE Physical Theatre Headlock directed by Kate Denborough; Shaun Parker for World Youth Day 08, Sydney Festival 2009 and The Song Company’s Tenebrae 3; Opera Australia’s Baroque Masterpieces choreographed by Lucy Guerin; Alice Lee Holland Preparing to be Beautiful; Theatre of Image directed by Kim Carpenter; Meryl Tankard The Oracle. Tim also performed with ADT on Superstars of Dance, Channel 9. In 1997 Tim co-founded Raw Metal Dance Company in Brisbane (assistant choreographer, writer and performer). Tim has also choreographed short works for ADT’s Ignition 2006 and for Company 34 UNSW. Jorijn Vriesendorp Born in the Netherlands, Jorijn Vriesendorp completed a Bachelor of Dance at Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Theaterschool in 2008. Winner of the VanDenEnde Foundation Encouragement Scholarship and the Mary Orloff Prize for Most Outstanding Dancer, Jorijn completed her studies at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2009. Since working in Australia, Jorijn has worked with choreographers Phillip Adams, Sue Healey, Stephanie Lake, Rebecca Hilton, Lina Limosani and Antony Hamilton. Having performed with 2ndToe Dance Collective, Jorijn made her Chunky Move performance debut in 2010 in Mortal Engine.
founded by artistic Director gideon obarzanek in 1995, Chunky move has earned an enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance. Mix Tape is the third production for the next move, a series of performances created by the next generation of australian dance makers, commissioned and presented by Chunky move. the next move is designed to bridge the gap between emerging choreographers making small independent work and more established choreographers running their own organisations. ChunKy moVe team artiStiC DireCtor gideon obarzanek exeCutiVe ProDuCer rachael azzopardi BuSineSS anD Program manager hillary Coyne offiCe anD Program CoorDinator Prue Beal ProDuCtion anD oPerationS manager Chris mercer ProDuCtion aDminiStrator Josh Sherrin marKeting anD DeVeloPment manager Jade harlin marKeting anD DeVeloPment CoorDinator amanda Bishop finanCe aDminiStrator anne macDonald ClaSS Curator Kristy ayre PuBliCity miranda Brown Publicity goVernment PartnerS
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BoarD of DireCtorS Peter Biggs (chair), Stephen armstrong, rachael azzopardi, Jeremy Blackshaw, Dr Kate Crawford, Dr terry Cutler, rhod ellis-Jones, gideon obarzanek, margaret Parker, Katrina Sedgwick and margaret thompson. SPeCial thanKS Chunky move would like to thank the following people and organisations for their support of Mix Tape: Chunky move Staff, Board, Sponsors and Donors, robin fox, miranda Brown and Kate Barnes from miranda Brown Publicity, heidrun löhr, tin&ed, grant and Delma from try Booking, eduardo from the Print Centre and Kristina Chan. Chunky move acknowledges the generous support of our donors who have supported the company in the past 12 months: Christopher Baker / Daniel & Danielle Besen (Besen trust) / Peter & mary Biggs / oliver Clifton / rosemary forbes & ian hocking / Susan humphries / Jeannette lefrandt / fiona mcgauchie & James Penlidis / margaret Parker / Christopher Popp / robert templar / miss Victoria till
Photo: Belinda Strodder.
THERE’S A DANCER IN ALL OF US! Chunky Move dance classes are the perfect way to unwind, get fit and improve your flexibility and strength. Classes are offered in contemporary, ballet, hip hop, funk and yoga for beginners to intermediate, and are taught by some of Australia’s best dance teachers. All classes are held at the Chunky Move Studios in Southbank.
ChunKy moVe 111 Sturt Street Southbank, ViC australia 3006 Phone +61 3 9645 5188 facsimile +61 3 9645 5199 email info@chunkymove.com.au chunkymove.com Chunky move can also be found on facebook and twitter
Monday
6.30 – 8.00pm
Hip Hop (beginners – intermediate) Ballet (beginners)
Tuesday
6.30 – 8.00pm
Contemporary (beginners) Yoga (beginners – intermediate)
Wednesday 6.15 – 7.30pm 6.30 – 8.00pm
Funk (beginners – intermediate) Ballet (intermediate)
Thursday
6.30 – 8.00pm
Contemporary (beginners) Contemporary (intermediate)
Saturday
10.00 – 11.30am Contemporary (beginners) 11.45am – 1.15pm Contemporary (intermediate)
maJor PartnerS
SuPPorting PartnerS
For more information and to sign up to our Chunky Move e-newsletter visit chunkymove.com or phone 03 9645 5188. ProDuCtion PartnerS
GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
Cover Photo: heidrun löhr. Pictured: timothy ohl
MAJOR PARTNERS
founded by artistic Director gideon obarzanek in 1995, Chunky move has earned an enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance. Mix Tape is the third production for the next move, a series of performances created by the next generation of australian dance makers, commissioned and presented by Chunky move. the next move is designed to bridge the gap between emerging choreographers making small independent work and more established choreographers running their own organisations. ChunKy moVe team artiStiC DireCtor gideon obarzanek exeCutiVe ProDuCer rachael azzopardi BuSineSS anD Program manager hillary Coyne offiCe anD Program CoorDinator Prue Beal ProDuCtion anD oPerationS manager Chris mercer ProDuCtion aDminiStrator Josh Sherrin marKeting anD DeVeloPment manager Jade harlin marKeting anD DeVeloPment CoorDinator amanda Bishop finanCe aDminiStrator anne macDonald ClaSS Curator Kristy ayre PuBliCity miranda Brown Publicity goVernment PartnerS
mix taPe
BoarD of DireCtorS Peter Biggs (chair), Stephen armstrong, rachael azzopardi, Jeremy Blackshaw, Dr Kate Crawford, Dr terry Cutler, rhod ellis-Jones, gideon obarzanek, margaret Parker, Katrina Sedgwick and margaret thompson. SPeCial thanKS Chunky move would like to thank the following people and organisations for their support of Mix Tape: Chunky move Staff, Board, Sponsors and Donors, robin fox, miranda Brown and Kate Barnes from miranda Brown Publicity, heidrun löhr, tin&ed, grant and Delma from try Booking, eduardo from the Print Centre and Kristina Chan. Chunky move acknowledges the generous support of our donors who have supported the company in the past 12 months: Christopher Baker / Daniel & Danielle Besen (Besen trust) / Peter & mary Biggs / oliver Clifton / rosemary forbes & ian hocking / Susan humphries / Jeannette lefrandt / fiona mcgauchie & James Penlidis / margaret Parker / Christopher Popp / robert templar / miss Victoria till
Photo: Belinda Strodder.
THERE’S A DANCER IN ALL OF US! Chunky Move dance classes are the perfect way to unwind, get fit and improve your flexibility and strength. Classes are offered in contemporary, ballet, hip hop, funk and yoga for beginners to intermediate, and are taught by some of Australia’s best dance teachers. All classes are held at the Chunky Move Studios in Southbank.
ChunKy moVe 111 Sturt Street Southbank, ViC australia 3006 Phone +61 3 9645 5188 facsimile +61 3 9645 5199 email info@chunkymove.com.au chunkymove.com Chunky move can also be found on facebook and twitter
Monday
6.30 – 8.00pm
Hip Hop (beginners – intermediate) Ballet (beginners)
Tuesday
6.30 – 8.00pm
Contemporary (beginners) Yoga (beginners – intermediate)
Wednesday 6.15 – 7.30pm 6.30 – 8.00pm
Funk (beginners – intermediate) Ballet (intermediate)
Thursday
6.30 – 8.00pm
Contemporary (beginners) Contemporary (intermediate)
Saturday
10.00 – 11.30am Contemporary (beginners) 11.45am – 1.15pm Contemporary (intermediate)
maJor PartnerS
SuPPorting PartnerS
For more information and to sign up to our Chunky Move e-newsletter visit chunkymove.com or phone 03 9645 5188. ProDuCtion PartnerS
GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
Cover Photo: heidrun löhr. Pictured: timothy ohl
MAJOR PARTNERS