Chunky Move & Melbourne International Arts Festival

present The World Premiere of

TWO FACED

BASTARD

The company behind the groundbreaking 2007 Festival work, Glow returns to the 2008 Melbourne International Arts Festival with its bold new dance-theatre work that takes the audience backstage for a rare glimpse into the performers’ world.

Arts House Meat Market Wednesday 8 to Sunday 12 October

Preview: 8 October at 8pm 9 to 11 October at 8pm 11 October and 12 October at 2pm 12 October at 6pm

BOOKINGS: Ticketmaster 1300 136 166 or www.melbournefestival.com.au

Direction and Choreography Gideon Obarzanek and Lucy Guerin //

Set Design Ralph Myers // Composer: Darrin Verhagen // Costume Design: Paula Levis //

Performers: Vincent Crowley, Antony Hamilton, Michelle Heaven, Stephanie Lake, Brian Lipson, Byron Perry, Lee Serle.

‘With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus draw steadily nearer to that truth by whose partial discovery I will be doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.’ R.L. Stevenson, from ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’

Melbourne’s leading contemporary dance company Chunky Move returns to the Melbourne International Arts Festival with the world premiere of their new dance-theatre work, Two Faced Bastard. Created by Gideon Obarzanek and Lucy Guerin, (who last collaborated together on the New York Bessie Award winning Tense Dave), Two Faced Bastard promises to be another truly extraordinary performance experience.

On either side of a dividing curtain, a group of performers juggle two simultaneous shows played to two opposing audiences. Each exit through the curtain becomes an entrance on the other side. There is no backstage, nowhere to get off, nowhere to hide. As one world bleeds into another a unique performance emerges, cut loose from the rules that determine a performer’s onstage/offstage life.

A cleverly staged work, Two Faced Bastard reveals our constant state of duality and capacity for treachery in the desire for individual gain. A tantalising look at two duplicitous worlds of fiction and reality, this production exposes its cast with often hilarious consequences.

Founded by Artistic Director, Gideon Obarzanek in 1995, Chunky Move has earned an enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre defying dance performance. Chunky Move’s work constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance within an ever-evolving Australian culture.

2008 has been an extraordinary year for Chunky Move with Glow touring across five continents to thousands of dance fans, and an invitation – the first to an Australian company in a decade – to perform Mortal Engine at the prestigious Edinburgh Arts Festival. Two Faced Bastard promises to be another ground-breaking work from this internationally acclaimed company.