Presented with Chunky Move and Arts House
in association with Creature Technology Co.
WORLD
PREMIERE
It’s cathartic, visceral
and left the opening night
crowd literally gasping.
— PEDESTRIAN.TV ON FOREVER AND EVER
(SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY)
Chunky Move
Token
Armies
Meat Market
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6pm & 8.30pm
1 hr 30 mins no interval
Tickets $59
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festival.melbourne
Arts House 03 9322 3720
When you enter an environment populated
by varied lifeforms, animated machines and
a set that itself seems to pulse and breathe,
you know you’re not in traditional dance
territory. This visionary creation throws every
rule to the wind, and is the first work created
by Antony Hamilton since taking up the helm
of Chunky Move.
Token Armies is a symphony of action, image
and sound, and a collective experience
through which audiences will make their own
journey. Featuring a leviathan sculpture by
Creature Technology Co.—the renowned
creators of works such as King Kong and
Walking with Dinosaurs—this immersive
spectacle explores the way labour becomes
ritual and opens up opportunities for a
future humanity. Bio-mechanical forms
alongside an ensemble of 23 performers
query the boundary between the living and
the inanimate.
Epic in scale, ambitious in conceit and
utterly unforgettable in execution, this world
premiere event is an evolutionary leap into
an unknown tomorrow.
Commissioned by Melbourne
International Arts Festival.
Presenting
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