This workshop will involve introduction to Chunky Move Artistic Director Antony Hamilton's unique counting system for choreography, used in the creation of 4/4 and other works. Participants will also explore the democratic choreographic method Antony used for duets to generate unpredictable movement patterns. These ideas will be integrated with the theme of stepping, using the staging decks that are a central component of the 4/4 choreographic system.

Information:
Date: Saturday 23.11.24
Time: 11:00-13:00
For: Professional dancers and dance students
The workshop is free and will be held in English.
Dressing rooms are not available

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Bio:
Antony Hamilton was appointed Artistic Director and co-CEO of Chunky Move in 2019. His choreographic work examines the elemental and primordial nature of the body, set against intersecting narratives that explore past, present and future. He often employs a sophisticated melding of movement, sound and visual design to collaboratively imagine complete worlds, and develops new choreographic languages to occupy them. Antony’s works reflects contemporary concerns through a fascination with dance, new technology, history, storytelling, and established and emerging sub-cultures.

Antony’s broad experience as a dancer and choreographer has roots in classical ballet, post-modern contemporary dance, and global street dance originating from North America. This unique artistic foundation allows Chunky Move to intersect disparate dance communities and styles and build pathways and new languages that connect people and reflect contemporary cultural practice. In his time as Artistic Director at Chunky Move, Antony has premiered new works including Token Armies (2019), Universal Estate (2019), Yung Lung (2022), Rewards for the Tribe (2022), AB_TA_Response (2022) and 4/4 (2023).

Antony has been the recipient of major fellowships from Bangarra Dance Theatre (the Russell Page Fellowship), the Tanja Liedtke Foundation, the Australia Council for the Arts and the Sidney Myer Foundation. In 2013, he was Resident Director of Lucy Guerin Inc and in 2014 was guest dance curator at The National Gallery of Victoria. He was also the inaugural International Resident Artist at Dancemakers Toronto from 2016 to 2018. He has created numerous national and international commissions, including Keep Everything and I Like This for Chunky Move, Black Project 3 for The Lyon Opera Ballet (FR) Sentinel for Skånes Dansteater (SE) and They Want New Language for La Comète (FR). Antony has received four Helpmann Award nominations, winning for Black Project 1 & 2, and Forever and Ever (Sydney Dance Company). He has won numerous Green Room Awards and has also received a New York Performing Arts Award ‘Bessie’ for Outstanding Production for MEETING.