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Antony Hamilton
Antony was appointed Artistic Director and co-CEO of Chunky Move in early 2019, and his connection to the company goes back more than 17 years. His acclaimed works involve a sophisticated melding of movement, sound and visual design, and are contextually underpinned by an examination of a body that is at once primitive, contemporary and future bound. Antony has been the recipient of prestigious 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. Antony has received four Helpmann Award nominations, winning for Black Project 1 & 2 and Forever and Ever (Sydney Dance Co.). He has won numerous Green Room Awards and also received a New York Performing Arts Award ‘Bessie’ for Outstanding Production for MEETING. In 2019 he created Token Armies, his first major work for Chunky Move as Artistic Director. Antony’s independent works include Blazeblue Oneline (2008), Drift (2010), Black Project 1 (2012), Black Project 2 (2013), MEETING (2015), NYX (2015) and Number of the Machine (2017). Major commissions include Forever & Ever(Sydney Dance Company, 2018), Natural Orders (Dancemakers Toronto, 2017), Crazy Times (Sydney Dance Company, 2017), Sentinel (Skånes Dansteater, 2016), Keep Everything (Chunky Move 2012), RGB (ADT 2010), Black Project 3 (Lyon Opera Ballet, 2010) and I Like This (co-directed by Byron Perry for Chunky Move 2008).
Ethan Hunter
Ethan (he/him) is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design & Production). His passion for sound has led Ethan to a career across various artistic mediums in the realms of theatre, dance, film, and installations. His recent notable credits include sound design for ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ (2023) at Red Stitch Actors Theatre, ‘Laundry Shoot’ (2023) ‘Hedda GabblerGablerGabler’ (2022) at La Mama, and several graduate productions at VCA, such as ‘Theatrum Botanicum’ and ‘The Wolves’ (2022). Ethan has also collaborated with VCA Masters of Theatre (Directing) students on captivating projects like ‘Ariadne,’ (2021), MinusOneSister’ (2023) and ‘An Unseasonable Fall of Snow’ (2022). Ethan has completed secondments with Melbourne Theatre Company, where he contributed to productions like ‘Laurinda’ and ‘Cyrano’. He has served as a Sound Technician at venues such as Malthouse and Melbourne Theatre Company.
Paula Levis
Paula is a Melbourne based costume designer. She has previously designed costumes for Antony Hamilton on his works Token Armies, Forever and Ever, Meeting, Sentinal, Black Project 2 & 3, NYX,Keep Everything, Drift, RGB, Blazeblue Oneline and I Like This. Paula has also designed costumes for choreographers Gideon Obarzanek (Two Faced Bastard, Mortal Engine, GLOW, Singularity, I Want to Dance Better at Parties), Lucy Guerin (Human Interest Story, Corridor, Structure & Sadness, Aether), Stephanie Lake (Skeleton Tree, Replica) and Melanie Lane (Re-make and Personal Effigies). She has worked with companies Lyon Opera Ballet, Melbourne Theatre Company, Skånes Dansteater, Sydney Dance Company, Australian Dance Theatre, Victorian Opera, KAGE, Danceworks, Dancehouse, TasDance, DanceNorth, Red Stitch Actor’s Theatre and La Mama.
Alisdair Macindoe
Alisdair is an Australian dancer, sound designer and choreographer. His experience in these fields has taken his work to many countries world-wide, earning critical acclaim in the media and receiving local and international awards including five Greenroom awards, a Helpmann, and a New York Bessie. Alisdair has performed in several Chunky Move productions including Black Marrow, Connected, Assembly, Two Faced Bastard, Aorta, Keep Everything, and I Like This. He has also collaborated as a sound and technology designer for chunky move works It Sounds Silly, Princess, Nether, and Universal Estate. Other notable collaborations include his work as a dancer for Lucy Guerin, Antony Hamilton Projects, Stephanie Lake and DanceNorth, and his work as a sound designer for Antony Hamilton Projects, STOMPIN and DanceNorth. His choreographic work includes commissions for DanceNorth, Lucy Guerin, Next Wave, Performance Space, and STOMPIN.
Nicholas Moloney
Nicholas is a Melbourne-based lighting designer. He is a graduate of Melbourne Polytechnic as well as the Victorian College of the Arts, where he received a Melbourne Global Scholars Award to travel to Taiwan to attend the World Stage Design conference as well as receiving the Lionel Gell Production Scholarship. In addition to freelancing, Nicholas can be found working as an assistant at Additive Lighting. Recent design credits include NEWRETRO by Lucy Guerin Inc (2023), Escalate by Throw Catch Collective (2023), Cygnets by The Liminal Space (2023), Yung Lung by Chunky Move (2022) and She Is Vigilante by Bridget Balodis & Krystalla Pearce (2019).
Harrison Ritchie-Jones
Harrison graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance) in 2014. In 2013, he was awarded a Victorian College of the Arts Undergraduate Most Outstanding Creative Scholarship. In 2018 he was nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Male Performer for Stephanie Lakes Pile of Bones. He was also selected for Next Wave’s kickstart program and premiered his work Shimmer Of The Numinous in the 2018 Next Wave Festival. He has worked with, and performed in creations by Stephanie Lake, Graeme Murphy, Ohad Naharin, Jo Lloyd, Anthony Hamilton, Alistaire Macindoe, Shelly Lasica, Rebecca Hilton, Lucy Guerin, Prue Lang, Natalie Cursio and Rebecca Jensen, as well as commissions by Chunky Move, Tasdance, Lucy Guerin Inc. and The Australian Conservatoire of Ballet. He has also performed in the frame of Ludwigshafen Pfalzbau (Germany), Pieces For Small Spaces at Lucy Guerin Inc. (Melbourne), Murray White Room Gallery (Melbourne) and Dance Massive.
Melissa Pham
Melissa Pham is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist who studied full-time dance at Brent Street. She has been a featured dancer in several music videos for Australian artists such as George Alice, Jennifer Loveless, Kite String Tangle, Tash Sultana, Gretta Ray, Isaiah Firebrace and Andrew Lambrou. Of late, Melissa has performed in Chunky Move’s major work 4/4, which premiered in August 2023, and has been engaged for the company’s next major work, U>N>I>T>E>D. Melissa is currently a part of Stephanie Lake Company whose current work Manifesto is touring nationally and internationally in 2023 and 2024.
David Prakash
David Prakash is an Indian/Samoan artist who began his journey into the realm of street dance in 2012. During this time, he has explored multiple genres such as Popping, Hip Hop freestyle, House, and Krump. David has judged at various street dance battles in Melbourne and competed nationally/internationally. Since 2018, David has been co-facilitating ‘Jam On Toast’, a weekly dance jam for the Melbourne dance community to dance, hang out and connect with new people. David’s recent venture into the contemporary dance space has seen him perform in Chunky Move’s 4/4 and in multiple creative projects with Jennifer Ma & Collaborators.
Aimee Schollum
Aimee Schollum is a Melbourne based, New Zealand born dancer, choreographer and graphic designer. She graduated with a Bachelor of Art and Design (Honours AUT 2010), a Diploma of Dance (2015) and was a member of the 2019/20 Dancehouse Emerging Choreographers Program. Choreographic credits include Sonos (winner, Best Dance/Physical Theatre at Melbourne Fringe 2018) and Eyes Wide Open (Melbourne Fringe 2019). Most recently Aimee performed in Chunky Move’s 4/4, and in Stephanie Lake Company’s Colossus (Melbourne International Arts Festival 2019), and was a rehearsal director for Simulcast Bendigo by Chunky Move (2019). Alongside her arts practice, Aimee is an experienced dance, Barre and RYT500 Ashtanga Yoga teacher.
Bosco Shaw
Bosco works primarily as a Lighting and Set Designer. His interest is in work that involves bodies and movement, how light feeds and influences the performing space and collaborations that propose alternate light sources and means. In 2016 he co-founded ADDITIVE, a collaborative lighting design company. He is also the recipient of 3 Green Room awards for visual design. Projects include; Antony Hamilton – Meeting. Tim Darbyshire – Stampede the Stampede. Dance North – Attractor. Chunky Move – It Cannot Be Stopped, Token Armies. Matthew Sleeth – A Drone Opera. Stephanie Lake – Double Blind, Replica, Colossus. Luke George – Erotic Dance. Chamber Made Opera – Permission to Speak, Between 8 and 9, Asia TOPA – XO State, Nick Power – Between Tiny Cities, Mel Lane – Nightdance, Mona Foma – Faux Mo 2018/2019/2020, Dark Mofo – Night Mass 2018, Alex Harrison/Paea Leach – The Difficult Comedown.
Kyall Shanks
Kyall received his BFA from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2015, as well as a creative scholarship and the Orloff Family Trust Award for Most Outstanding Dancer. Since graduation he has worked for Arts Centre Melbourne, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, Liquidskin Dance Company, Opera Australia, and has performed in Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and Sweden. Kyall works as Associate Director to the pre-professional youth dance company Yellow Wheel and teaches for various schools and organisations around Melbourne, also having taught interstate and internationally. In 2019 he worked with Antony Hamilton and Chunky Move for Universal Estate (Dance Massive & Dark Mofo) and Token Armies (Melbourne Festival). Kyall was also part of the artistic team that delivered SIMULCAST for Dance Massive 2019. He is currently Artistic Director at Yellow Wheel.
Samakshi Sidu
Born in Delhi, India, Samakshi Sidhu is an artist working with dance and choreography. Based in Naarm (Melbourne), their practice is centred around the intelligence of the body in relation to ecological systems. Their current practice investigates the body as an archive and the social role dance can have, with a focus on community healing. Samakshi is interested in creating a hybrid interdisciplinary practice that is socio-politically informed and accessible. A few choreographers they have worked with are Yuko Harada from India, Lotem Regev from Israel and Brianna Kell, Daniel Riley and Gregory Lorenzutti from Naarm. Samakshi has recently worked with Chunky Move as an understudy for 4/4 (2023) and as a performer in creative developments of upcoming new works You, Beauty and U>N>I>T>E>D. In November 2023 they undertook a residency with GUTS Dance, Mparntwe (Alice Springs).
Michaela Tancheff
Michaela is a Melbourne based dance artist, originally from Phillip Island. Michaela commenced a Diploma of Dance training under the mentorship of Adam Wheeler then went on to complete her Diploma followed by a graduate program, both at Transit Dance. She has performed in works created by Chunky Move (Token Armies), Stephanie Lake Company (Colossus), Movement Decor (Human Patterning), Kayla Douglas for Melbourne Fringe Festival (A Study Of Being). Michaela is part of the duo Hot Glue Buns who have supported music acts such as CC:DISCO! (Strawberry Fields Festival) and Gordon Koang (Meredith Music Festival).
Nikki Tarling
Nikki began her dance studies at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. During her time at WAAPA, Nikki was selected to spend 6 months on exchange at Codarts in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Upon graduation in 2016 with her Bachelor in Performing Arts, Nikki began her long term engagement as a freelance contemporary dance artist. Moving to Launceston to begin her first contract, Nikki began working with Tasdance rehearsing ‘Fragile Matter’ with Paul Blackman and Christine Gouzelis (Jukstapoz), and was nominated as ‘Dancer to watch’ in the Dance Australia magazine in 2017. Following Tasdance, Nikki moved to Melbourne and continued working with many independent choreographers and artists, and has performed in an array of contemporary dance festivals across Australia. This includes the Perth & Melbourne Fringe Festival, and the Perth & Melbourne International Arts Festival, as well as a significant number of independent works in Australia. A few of these works include ‘Colossus’ & ‘Multiply’ by Stephanie Lake Company, and ‘Duplex’ by Jack Riley. ‘Duplex’ was presented at the Academia di Belle Art in Florence as part Melbourne University’s ‘First Commissions’ campaign. In 2020 Nikki returned to Perth to perform in a double-bill ‘Hofesh in the Yard’ presented by STRUT’s dance season in association with the Hofesh Shechter Company for the Perth International Arts Festival. In 2020 Nikki’s teaching practice sparked after completing her Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training. With dance knowledge that spans over 20 years, her focus is on awakening and rekindling the fluidity of the body.
Jayden Wall
Jayden is a Naarm/Melbourne-based performing artist who is nationally recognised for his passion, versatility and welcoming nature. After growing up around his mother’s dance studio, Michelle Rae School of Dance, Jayden decided to concentrate further on his movement and artistry and began studying at Patrick Studios Australia where he trained in Musical Theatre and Performing Arts. Following this, Jayden found interest in contemporary dance and the huge array of techniques that offer themselves within the culture. Jayden also fell in love with the groove and footwork of House Dance, training under the direction of Daisuke Benson. Of late, Jayden has worked and collaborated in an array of projects including: Chunky Move’s 4/4, Jonathan Homsey’s Shower THOTS, Chunky Move X MPavilion Residency, The Dream Dance Companies Goddess choreographed by Caetlyn Watson, Choreolab with Contact Gonzo in collaboration with Chunky Move, Opera Australia’s Turandot, George Maple live at The Wool Store, Cosmos by Callum Mooney and 40/40 HOME by Zoee Marsh.