NEXT MOVE: SIDHU + RITCHIE-JONES

What comes next? NEXT MOVE returns, supporting independent artists as they develop bold ideas and push the boundaries of contemporary dance.

Chunky Move’s flagship platform for independent choreographers returns in 2026 with NEXT MOVE, an exciting double bill of new works by Harrison Ritchie-Jones and Samakshi Sidhu. Bringing two distinct choreographic worlds into the studio, Ritchie-Jones and Sidhu explore physical virtuosity, surreal storytelling and the body in relation to ecological systems.

Chunky Move is proud to reactivate this vital, continually evolving program in response to the needs of the dance sector with this exciting double feature. NEXT MOVE roars back to life from Tuesday 10 November to Saturday 14 November at the Chunky Move Studios in Southbank.

 

 

Samakshi Sidhu – Is it worth …

A slow, soft haunt. A body caught between systems, identities and ways of being.

In her first solo work, Samakshi Sidhu explores the space between her personal experience and the structures that shape it. Drawing on questions of identity, immigration and belonging, the work becomes an investigation into what it means to live and survive within systems, and what those systems do to a body. Featuring a durational cameo from Nikki Tarling, the work touches on themes of perseverance and adaptability.

Moving between dance, costume and set, Sidhu builds a world where each element carries its own weight. At its centre is a process of undoing: reaching towards an ancient self while navigating a contemporary world.

Harrison Ritchie-Jones – FUTUREXZIBIT

Shifting between the macro and the micro, a changing sense of scale reshapes the relationship between performers, movement and the audience. Tension stretches between the intimate and subtle and the loud and virtuosic, as focus moves across the performance. In conversation with screen projection and objects, the work explores how these elements influence and transform one another.

 

BOOK TICKETS

 

 

NEXT MOVE: SIDHU + RITCHIE-JONES
11 – 14 November 2026
7 – 8:30pm
Chunky Move Studios

 

NEXT MOVE was commissioned as part of Chunky Move’s 2026 program.

NEXT MOVE is supported by City of Melbourne, the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.