Chunky Move

I was introduced to the works of Australian contemporary dance company Chunky Move in a New Media and Performance class at school yesterday. Holy... dear... sweet... Jesus. The stuff that these guys do is breath-taking. Aside from brilliant, meaningful choreography, the company's work is rich with the integration of cutting age technology that is used to intensify the impact of each piece to the fullest possible degree. If you're at all interested in dance, movement, performance art, theatre, computer software, the abstract, theatrical lighting or sound, or just seeing things that are frieking beautiful, put aside a a few minutes and WATCH THIS STUFF.

I'm going to post here the first video we watched in class. The one that made me look up the rest of their work immediately when I got home. It's highlight footage from a piece called Mortal Engine, which the company's website describes as the following:

"Mortal Engine is a dance-video-music-laser performance using movement and sound responsive projections to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion. Crackling light and staining shadows represent the most perfect or sinister of souls. Kinetic energy fluidly metamorphoses from the human figure into light image, into sound and back again. Choreography is focused on movement of unformed beings in an unfamiliar landscape searching to connect and evolve in a constant state of becoming. Veering between moments of exquisite cosmological perfection and grotesque evolutionary accidents of existence, we are driven forward by the reality of permanent change."

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