YOU, BEAUTY 2024
You, Beauty is a performance experience both cavernous and intimate, moving between hard exteriors and soft interiors.
Inside the Immigration Museum’s stately Long Room, a giant undulating inflatable is both a theatre visited by the audience and a sculptural form viewed from the outside. A moving dialogue between two dancers and the inflatable warps and stretches the space, evoking gentle rolling clouds, and fearsome tumbling oceans.
As the dancers are finally swallowed by the giant structure, they invite audience members to step inside, and be transported into a surreal other world of song, dance, enchantment and dread.
You, Beauty is a love letter to dance histories and futures, distorted by material elements and the passing of time.
Creative Team
Artistic Director Antony Hamilton
Performers Samakshi Sidhu and Enzo Nazario
Lighting Design Antony Hamilton and Ashley Buchanan
Costume Design Andrew Treloar
Stage Manager Zsuzsa Gaynor Mihaly
Assistant Stage Manager Jayden Wall
Production Manager Ashley Buchanan
Production Coordinator Olivia Walker
Sound and Technical Coordinator Neil Cabatingan
Creative Contributors: Honey Long and Prue Stent
With thanks to Robin Fox
World Premiere
RISING Festival
Immigration Museum
The Long Room
1–15 June 2024
Chunky Move are supported by Creative Victoria and the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts/Creative Australia.
Image: Gianna Rizzo
Image: Gianna Rizzo
Image: Gianna Rizzo
