Mechanical mystic

Chunky Move, one of Australia’s most radical dance companies, blends bodies, digital media, and immersive environments to build performative environments featuring radical visual and sensorial impact. Founded in 1995 and now led by Antony Hamilton and Kristy Ayre, the company seeks to explore the body as unstable matter. In Venice, they will present U>N>I>T>E>D, a European premiere envisioning a speculative future. Six dancers turn into post-human hybrids in animatronic exoskeletons, moving through strobe-lit scenes with techno beats by Gabber Modus Operandi.
The performance evokes a raw, ritualistic world where cyborgs battle and pray, and machines become divine. With recycled motocross gear and exposed architecture, the show merges vulnerability and power. Hamilton, known for probing the digital body with such works as Black Project 1 and Token Armies, crafts a hypnotic, immersive experience that redefines humanity and futurism using choreography.