Re-make 2016

Jul 22

Chunky Move's ninth Next Move performance season was the world premiere double bill of Melanie Lane's Re-Make and Jo Lloyd's Mermermer. With Re-make, choreographer Lane embarked on a long awaited collaboration with former Australian Ballet Senior Artist Juliet Burnett. Through narrative, space and technology, Re-make negotiated tradition, discipline and the future of the highly trained classical body. Contemplating the language, craft and technology of the classically trained body, Lane and Burnett created a solo for two – an excavation of physical archives that are shared and negotiated through their encounter with one another.

Another deep collaboration, Mermermer was created and performed by choreographer Jo Lloyd and performance maker Nicola Gunn. The work was simultaneously a physical and verbal conversation, a new mode of performance that explored saturation, social encounters and an augmented reality that oscillated somewhere between high art and entertainment. Drawing on ideas of extinction, documentation and myth-making, the outcome was a phantasmagoria of a work, exploring saturation, augmented realities and the irresolvable tension created by the gap between live mediation, mediated non-fiction and melodrama.

Creative Team
Direction Melanie Lane
Choreography Melanie Lane in collaboration with Juliet Burnett
Lighting Design Matthew Adey/House of Vnholy
Sound Composition & Design Chris Clark
Costume Design Paula Levis
Dramaturgy Adena Jacobs

Original Performers Melanie Lane, Juliet Burnett

Artistic Director Anouk van Dijk
Executive Director Vanessa Pigrum
Company Producer Hillary Coyne
Production Manager Michael Carr
Stage Manager Jess Frost
Lighting Operator Andre Vanderwert

World Premiere
9 September 2016 (Melbourne)

“Draped in an aesthetic of cool detachment, Re-make is a languildy iterating, brooding work that slowly peels away layers of classical ballet technique, with Burnett the subject of this clinical dissection” The Australian