Luke Smiles
Luke started dance training at the Miranda Kalgovas Ballet
School, later completing a Bachelor of Dance at the Victorian
College of the Arts. Apart from being a founding member
of Chunky Move, he has also performed with Vis-a-Vis Dance
Canberra, The One Extra Dance Company, Meryl Tankard’s
Australian Dance Theatre and Thwack.
Working under the name motion laboratories, Luke's music
work
includes composition/sound design for Chunky Move, including
Corrupted 2, All The Better To Eat You With, Live Acts,
Flexible, Clear Pale Skin and Wanted. The soundtrack
for Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) productions Birdbrain,
The Age of Unbeauty, and recently Nothing,
which premiered at Womadelaide.
Additional composition credits include the original version
of Corrupted for the Nederlands Dans Theatre, sound and
music for the Making Chunky Move Corrupted 2 CD-ROM,
two projects with choreographer Byron Perry, the soundtrack
for the short film Stark White by Brett Daffy,
and the sonic performance/installation
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for Melbourne’s Next Wave Festival 2000.
