Year of Premiere: 1999

Premiere Season Credits

LIVE ACTS #1

This Side Up

• Choreographer: Kate Denborough
• Performers: Kate Denborough, Fiona Cameron

Disco.very

• Choreographer: Gideon Obarzanek
• Performers: Kirstie McCracken, David Tyndall

Restricted Situation

• Choreographer: Shelley Lasica
• Performers: Luke Smiles, Fiona Cameron, Byron Perry

Pirn

• Choreographer: Frances d’ath
• Performers: Byron Perry, Luke Smiles, Lisa Griffiths, Kirstie McCracken

Special Guests:

• Moria Finucane
• DJs: Ransom, J’Nett, Voiteck, Scratcher Girl, Fiona Scott-Norman
• Visual Artists: Ian De Grucy, Larissa Hjorth, Callum Morton

LIVE ACTS #2

Buy This

• Choreographer: Fiona Cameron
• Performers: Lisa Griffiths, Kirstie McCracken, and Fiona Cameron

Ballet Revolver

• Choreographer: Phillip Adams (BalletLab) ,
• Performers: Byron Perry, Lisa Griffiths, Kirstie McCracken, Fiona Cameron, David Tyndall

Soap

• Choreographer: Gideon Obarzanek
• Performers: Kathryn Dunn, Narelle Benjamin, Byron Perry, Luke Smiles and David Tyndall

Special Guests

• Dilapidated Diva & Wicked Force Breakers
• DJs: Ollie Olsen, Chewy, Slieker, Ransom, Fiona Scott-Norman
• Visual Artists: Christopher Langton, Martine Corompt, Paul Quinn

LIVE ACTS #3

Noudissy

• Choreographer: Louise Taube
• Performers: Louise Taube, Kirstie McCracken

Hayflick Limit

• Choreographer: Byron Perry,
• Performers: Luke Smiles, Lisa Griffiths, Fiona Cameron

Antistatic

• Choreographer: Gideon Obarzanek
• Performer: Fiona Cameron

Gift

• Choreographer: Lucy Guerin
• Performers: Luke Smiles, Kirstie McCracken, Fiona Cameron, David Tyndall

Special Guests:

• Moira Finucane and Kareena Oates
• DJs: Ransom, Scratcher Girl, Fiona Scott-Norman, Eye Spy, Paz
• Visual Artists: Lauren Berkowitz, John Meade, DAMP

LIVE ACTS #4

Disco.very

• Choreographer: Gideon Obarzanek
• Performers: Kirstie McCracken, David Tyndall

This Side Up

• Choreographer: Kate Denborough
• Performers: David Tyndall, Fiona Cameron

Pirn

• Choreographer: Frances d’ath
• Performers: Byron Perry , Luke Smiles, Lisa Griffiths, Kirstie McCracken

Hayflick Limit

• Choreographer: Byron Perry
• Performers: Luke Smiles, Lisa Griffiths, Fiona Cameron
  
  

Gift

• Choreographer: Lucy Guerin
• Performers: Luke Smiles, Kirstie McCracken, Fiona Cameron , David Tyndall

Special Guests

• Elvis (aka Shirley Billing)
• DJs: Earthcore, Ransom, Fiona Scott-Norman
• Visual Artists: Christopher Langton, Lauren Berkowitz, Larissa Hjorth, David Rosetzky

Concept

Live Acts is a collection of very short commissioned dance works. Originally created as a series of four dance/club events at the Revolver nightclub in Melbourne, these commissioned works were combined with DJs, VJs, visual art installations and other guest acts to make large nightclub events. Live Acts provided an opportunity for choreographers to make short, single-idea works and also set a challenge for the works to be performed to a standing audience that was free to move around within a club environment.

Media Response

“Live Acts takes contemporary dance to a funky new audience who might never think of trotting along to a standard arts venue… Something’s afoot when a contemporary dance company turns punters away from its second performance,” THE AUSTRALIAN.

“Punk bands did it in the 70s: they rebelled against the stagnant music scene, and its remote, rich rock gods, went back to grass roots and thrashed it out within spitting distance of the maddening crowd. Contemporary dance company Chunky Move is trying similar with its mischievously titled Live Acts at Revolver – plucking dance out of the climate-controlled environment of the theatre and dropping it into an unruly new context – the cramped, smoky, noisy and bristling ambience of a nightclub… Live Acts is an experiment worth conducting - and experiencing,” THE AGE.

"Like dance yum-cha," HERALD SUN.

"Live Acts would appear to signal a change of guard in contemporary dance in Melbourne… In a brave and exciting new initiative, the Chunky Move dancers have moved out of the theatre and into the disco," THE MELBOURNE TIMES.

Performance History

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