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Year of Premiere: 1998
Premiere Season Credits
Performers
Creative Personnel
Concept
Rather than a moral or ethical corruption, the digital meaning of 'corruption'
refers to defect or damage to data. Corrupted uses this digital premise
as a point of departure to explore a poetic of malfunction. By imposing
various limitations and unusual movement tasks, the dancers are made to
move in awkward and unnatural ways. The resulting work is both a physical
and psychological manifestation of corruption.
Media Response
“This Australian modern-dance company from Melbourne brought blasts
of choreographic excitement to the Brooklyn Academy of Music Harvey Theater
when it appeared as part of the 2001 Next Wave Festival.” THE NEW
YORK TIMES
“Obarzanek's vocabulary is also brutally arduous, but in keeping
with the titles of the pieces shown at the BAM Harvey, his dancers seem
damaged, unhinged, and trapped in technological disaster zones.” VILLAGE
VOICE REVIEW (NY)
“High on character and risk, Corrupted is dance as adrenaline rush,” LONDON
METRO.
“Seriously weird and deliberately unbeautiful,” THE AGE
“Corrupted is an ultra-hip, plastic-and-static exploration of data
corruption in this day and age,” SINGAPORE BUSINESS TIMES
“Obarzanek toys with a physical, and behavioural exploration of
digital corruption that leaves you, in a good sense, wanting more,” THE
TIMES (UK).
“Corrupted is pure dance, for seven artists using offensive, dangerous
and disconcerting movements,” LE SOIR.
“Violent yet supple movement… disconcerting and unsettling,” LE
RAPPEL.
“Chunky Move do it with a hard-edged impact and design originality
that makes them particularly memorable,” MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
“A breathtakingly powerful work…with it Obarzanek has justified
his prominence in the Australian dance scene. One can only envy Victoria
deeply for having this as its resident company,” THE AUSTRALIAN.
“Strongly conceived and arrestingly choreographed and designed physical
theatre,” THE LONDON TIMES.
“A youthful dynamo with stylish panache, this five-year old Melbourne-based
company delivered charged kicks and nifty swerves in its Singapore debut,” SINGAPORE
TIMES
Performance History
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