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 Blazeblue Oneline is a genre defying collision of raw dance choreography, explosions of light, sound, colour, music and graffiti.
Created and choreographed by Antony Hamilton, Blazeblue Oneline draws on the hybridisations between visual art and dance, specifically the links between Melbourne’s distinctive contemporary dance and street art scenes, in order to create an explosive art form like no other.
Featuring mutant b-boy dancers, re-animated toy robots and other moving objects, Blazeblue Oneline explores the potential of inanimate objects and materials used in street art – cardboard, paper, adhesive tape, pens and paint – and their partnership with the human body.
Blazeblue Oneline is Hamilton’s first full-length work as a choreographer. Hamilton is also a visual artist, having exhibited works in both Adelaide and Melbourne. He has a deep interest in exploring the physical side of graffiti, which is often virulent and brash. Similarly, he is interested in the visual nature of dance choreography, which he likens to moving sculpture. From this premise, in Blazeblue Oneline, Hamilton has created an abstract snapshot of everything he loves to see, hear and feel.
Antony Hamilton has trained in dance in Sydney, Perth and New York. Since 1999 he has performed with Australian Dance Theatre, Kage Physical Theatre, Chunky Move and Lucy Guerin Inc, performing extensively throughout Australia and overseas.
Hamilton has previously been commissioned to choreograph for Dancenorth, the Victorian College of the Arts, Stompin’ and Rogue. Hamilton was awarded the inaugural Russell Page Fellowship in 2004, the Green Room Award for Best Male Dancer in 2005, and was recently nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Original Choreography for his short work The Counting.
Antony Hamilton presents
BLAZEBLUE ONELINE
Concept/Choreography/Design: Antony Hamilton
Performers: Antony Hamilton, Byron Perry, Luke Smiles
Costume Design/Realisation: Paula Levis
Lighting Design/Set Realisation: Bluebottle
Warnings: spray paint fumes, strobe lighting and smoke effects
Venue: Arts House, Meat Market
Dates: Wednesday 30 April – Sunday 4 May 2008
Times: Wed – Sat 7.30pm, Sun 6pm. 50 minutes – no interval
Tickets: $25/$18
Bookings: www.easytix.com.au/artshouse or 03 9639 0096
More info: www.artshouse.com.au
This project has been Maximised by Chunky Move.
Blazeblue Oneline has been assisted by the Australian Government
through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and
advisory body. The project has also been supported by The Russell Page
Fellowship.
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