NEW AUSTRALIAN WORK
WORLD
Premiere
Chunky Move
Two Faced Bastard
The company behind the groundbreaking 2007 Festival work
Glow returns with a bold new dance-theatre work that gives
a rare glimpse into the performers’ world and takes the
audience backstage
Melbourne’s leading contemporary dance company Chunky Move has
earned an enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable
brand of genre-defying dance performances and Two Faced Bastard
promises to be another truly extraordinary experience.
On either side of a dividing curtain a group of performers juggle two
simultaneous shows played to opposing audiences. Each exit through the
curtain becomes an entrance on the other side. There is no backstage,
nowhere to get off, nowhere to hide. As one world bleeds into another a
unique performance emerges, cut loose from the rules that determine a
performer’s onstage/offstage life.
Direction & Choreography
Gideon Obarzanek
& Lucy Guerin
Set Design Ralph Meyers
Costume Design Paula Levis
Composer Darrin Verhagen
Performers Vincent Crowley,
Antony Hamilton, Michelle Heaven,
Stephanie Lake, Brian Lipson,
Byron Perry & Lee Serle
“Chunky Move is audacious and energetic,
constantly stretching and redefining dance in
Australia’s culture. Chunky Move’s work seeks to
redefine what is and what can be contemporary
dance within an ever-evolving Australian
culture.” MCA CHICAGO
Created by Gideon Obarzanek and Lucy Guerin, Two Faced Bastard is a
cleverly staged work that reveals our constant state of duality and capacity
for treachery in the desire for individual gain. A tantalising look at two
duplicitous worlds of fiction and reality, this production exposes its cast with
often hilarious consequences.
Arts House, Meat Market
5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
Preview
Wed 8 Oct at 8pm
Season
Thu 9 – Sat 11 Oct at 8pm
Sat 11 & Sun 12 Oct at 2pm
Sun 12 Oct at 6pm
1hr no interval
(Performance on Sat 11 Oct
followed by a post show Q&A)
Full
Groups (8+)
Conc
Student / MF-Y
Discounts apply. Save up to 20%.
Matinee Discounts also apply.
See page 2 for details.
Ticketmaster 1300 136 166
www.melbournefestival.com.au
$37
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$30
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Supported by
This project has been assisted by the
Australian Government’s Major Festivals
Initiative, managed by the Australia Council
for the Arts, the Australian Government’s arts
funding and advisory body, in association
with the Confederation of Australian
International Arts Festivals.
Chunky Move gratefully acknowledges
the support of the Victorian Government
through Arts Victoria – Department of Premier
and Cabinet, and the Commonwealth
Government through the Australia Council,
its arts funding and advisory body.
Co-commissioned by Melbourne
International Arts Festival.
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