Chunky Move is located on the unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations. We respectfully acknowledge the significant contributions of Australia’s First Peoples, and are committed to supporting the continuity of culture and relationship to this land.
Antony Hamilton
Antony Hamilton is the Artistic Director of Chunky Move. He works with collaborators to experiment with materials and spaces, and uses choreography to occupy vivid imaginary worlds. Antony is preoccupied by the notion of an elemental, primordial body, situated in a construct of intersecting contemporary narratives, while being confronted by the dilemma of an unknowable destiny.
Over the course of his career, he 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 for Melbourne NOW. 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 received numerous Green Room Awards and a New York Performing Arts ‘Bessie’ Award for Outstanding Production for MEETING. In 2019 he created Token Armies, his first work as AD of Chunky Move, and in 2020 he was guest mentor for Dancehouse Helsinki’s SPARKS project.