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.
Prue Lang
Prue Lang is a choreographer and performer now based in Melbourne, following 17 years living and working in Europe. Her projects are characterised by her rigorous choreographic innovation, conceptually driven aesthetics and exploration of choreography in the expanded field. Prue advocates Feminism and Environmental sustainability in her mode of artistic production. She is the founder of PLANT – a Research lab created to transmit, explore and further cultivate her choreographic practice in Australia.
Prue worked with William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt and The Forsythe Company as a leading soloist and choreographer, before establishing herself as an independent choreographer. Her works have been presented in festivals, theatres, museums and galleries throughout the world including Theatre National de Chaillot Paris, Rencontres choregraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Festival Temps d’images Paris, Festival Faits d’hiver, Mains d’Oeuvres, Maison Rouge Paris, Tanzplatform Deutschland, Mousonturm Frankfurt, Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf, Hebbel-am-ufer Berlin, Tanzperformance Köln, STUK Belgium, TATE Modern London, REDCAT Los Angeles, NGV Triennial, Carriageworks and Dance Massive.
Awards include: Most Outstanding Dancer, Most Innovative Production and Most Outstanding Choreographer by Europe’s Tanz’s Annual Critics’ Survey, PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA award for Hybrid Art, Green Room Awards for her Design, Original Choreography and Best Ensemble in Australia.
Class with Prue Lang
My class is a series of specific scores that encourages the individual nature and the ability of each participant. It begins on the floor with the octopus inspired practise, cultivating a heightened physical intelligence and perceptual awareness. It continues up through the body, progressively finding a sense of spaciousness and elasticity, and moves into the space with a series of guided improvisation tasks. It finishes with a final improvisation, offering collectively conceived frameworks in which to explore and play more autonomously.