Masterclass with Antony Hamilton
This masterclass will involve an introduction to Chunky Move Artistic Director Antony Hamilton's unique counting system for choreography, used in the creation of 4/4 and other works. Participants will also explore the democratic choreographic method Antony uses for duets to generate unpredictable movement patterns. These ideas will be integrated with the theme of stepping, a central component of the 4/4 choreographic system.
Antony Hamilton was appointed artistic director and co-CEO of Chunky Move in early 2019. His works examine the biological and social conditions of the human body, forever situated in the present yet facing an unknown future. He often employs a sophisticated melding of movement, sound and visual design to collaboratively imagine complete worlds, and develops choreographic systems to occupy them. In his time as Artistic Director at Chunky Move, Antony has premiered new works including Token Armies (2019), Universal Estate (2019), Nocturnal (2020), Yung Lung (2022), Rewards for the Tribe (2022), AB_TA_Response (2022) and 4/4 (2023). Antony has been the recipient of prestigious fellowships from Bangarra Dance Theatre, the Tanja Liedtke Foundation, the Australia Council for the Arts and the Sidney Myer Foundation. He has won numerous Green Room Awards and has also received a New York Performing Arts Award ‘Bessie’ for Outstanding Production for MEETING.
