Chunky Move's choreographer-launching program is back from a long break, kicking off with NEXT MOVE: Sidhu + Ritchie-Jones.
NEXT MOVE: Sidhu + Ritchie-Jones is a double bill of new works from independent choreographers Samakshi Sidhu and Harrison Ritchie-Jones, each given the room, backing and infrastructure to make a piece fully produced by Chunky Move.
The program first ran from 2008 to 2018, when it commissioned 11 world premieres and supported choreographers including Stephanie Lake, Antony Hamilton, Jo Lloyd, Melanie Lane, Atlanta Eke and James Batchelor.
Chunky Move’s NEXT MOVE: Sidhu + Ritchie-Jones
- Where: Chunky Move Studios, Southbank
- When: 10 to 14 November
- Tickets here
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Samakshi Sidhu: Is It Worth …
Sidhu’s piece is her first solo work.
It looks at the gap between her own lived experience and the structures around her, using ideas of identity, immigration and belonging to ask what it takes to live inside a system, and what that system does to a body. Nikki Tarling appears in a durational cameo, and the work touches on perseverance and adaptability.
Dance, costume and set are woven together, with each part of the world Sidhu builds carrying equal weight.
At the centre is a process of undoing, as she reaches towards an ancient self while moving through a modern one.
Harrison Ritchie-Jones: FUTUREXZIBIT
Ritchie-Jones plays with scale in FUTUREXZIBIT, zooming between the tiny and the enormous so the relationship between performers, movement and audience keeps shifting.
The work swings between the quiet and delicate and the loud and virtuosic as focus travels around the space.
Screen projection and objects are part of the mix, and the piece looks at how each element shapes and changes the others.
What it all adds up to
Between them, Sidhu and Ritchie-Jones bring two distinct choreographic worlds into the studio, covering physical virtuosity, surreal storytelling and the body in relation to ecological systems.
Chunky Move’s NEXT MOVE program invests in the future of dance and aims to strengthen the independent sector, providing a platform to develop and present ambitious, urgent work from next generation and mid-career choreographers.
The aim is to back independent artists as they take risks, test out ideas and help steer where contemporary dance heads next.
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This article was made in partnership with Chunky Move.
