Tag: "Gideon Obarzanek"

Infinity
0 Comments. 1,512 Views. Posted 21 Feb 2012 @ 3:31pm.
  With a lineage stretching back nearly 400 years, ballet is hardly renowned for its avant-gardism. Since its advent in the Italian Renaissance, this form of dance has retained much classicism up until the present day, an air of the esoteric clinging like soil to its aristocratic roots. But on the anniversary of their 50th year, the Australian Ballet are set to challenge such perceptions... Read More
Faker
0 Comments. 2,499 Views. Posted 17 Mar 2011 @ 12:15pm.
In 1995, Gideon Obarzanek realised a vision by founding an extraordinary dance company through which he would produce works of movement that lent themselves to atypical descriptions. Streamlined into a niche and yet unable to identify itself with any other form of theatre, Chunky Move had no choice but to refer to its style as "genre-defying." Fifteen years later, the... Read More
Connected
0 Comments. 1,891 Views. Posted 1 Mar 2011 @ 9:58am.
A common theme that seems to emerge when most artists are asked to speak of their work is that the intent of their art doesn't necessarily translate unaltered unto the audience. Sometimes the overly analytical or imaginative interpretation of an artwork can actually baffle and surprise its creator. American kinetic sculptor Reuben Margolin is said to "collapse the divide between... Read More
Chunky Move Creator Bares All
0 Comments. 1,155 Views. Posted 16 Feb 2011 @ 11:11am.
Chunky Move's latest collaboration with Malthouse Theatre is set to reveal the more personal side of their own artistic director and choreographer Gideon Obarzanek.    As an acclaimed Australian choreographer Obarzanek has received numerous accolades; spanning from his 1997 Australian Dance Award to the more recent Helpmann Award for his work on Chunky Move's electronic dance... Read More
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