Joyce SoHo Presents Chunky Move's I LIKE THIS 4/6-9

Australia's Chunky Move brings its distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance to Joyce SoHo, April 6-9, with the New York premiere of Byron Perry and Antony Hamilton's I Like This. A fresh and entertaining look at the creative process, I Like This depicts the journey of two men who embark on an unusual task: to design an environment, attempt to make sense of it and to start to control it. As these two director/choreographers appear on stage creating the work at the same time as it is being performed, the audience watches a show and simultaneously, the making of it. Incorporating strobe effects and alternating between detailed sophistication and delightful mischief, its often comic absurdity reveals our limited capacity to communicate and to control or even fully understand our surroundings.

I Like This premiered in 2008 in Melbourne as part of The Next Move, a series of performances created by the next generation of Australian choreographers, commissioned and presented by Chunky Move. The first in the series, I Like This, laid the foundation for bridging the divide between young choreographers making small independent work and more established choreographers running their own organizations. I Like This has also been performed in China.

Chunky Move will perform at Joyce SoHo from April 6-9, Wednesday through Friday at 8pm, and Saturday at 3pm and 8pm. The running time is 55 minutes. Tickets are $18. After Hours @ Joyce SoHo, a free post-performance Q&A with the artists, hosted by residency artist Kate Weare, will follow the April 7th performance. Joyce SoHo's onsite box office is only open one half-hour prior to performance time to sell tickets exclusively for that performance. Tickets may also be purchased online at joyce.org (no service fees!), via JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800 or in person at The Joyce Theater at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street Mon-Sun, 12 noon-6pm. On days when there are performances, The Joyce Theater's box office is open for advance sales up to one hour prior to Joyce curtain times and up to three hours prior to Joyce SoHo curtain times. The Joyce Theater's box office is closed on major holidays.

About Chunky Move:
Founded by Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek in 1995, Chunky Move's work constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance within an ever-evolving Australian culture. The company's work is both diverse in form and content; to date, the company has created a number of works for the stage, site specific, new-media and installation work.
Chunky Move's multi-tiered programming initiatives foster and support a strong and vibrant dance culture in its home city of Melbourne and also creates critically acclaimed and popular larger productions for touring. Recent cities toured include: Sydney, Beijing, Shanghai, Dresden, New York, Vancouver, Edinburgh and Lisbon. The Joyce Theater Foundation last presented Chunky Move at The Kitchen in 2008 with Glow and at The Joyce Theater in 2006 with I Want to Dance Better at Parties.

In 2008, Chunky Move received Best Dance Work for Glow and Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production for Mortal Engine at the Live Performance Australia Helpmann Awards. In 2009, Mortal Engine received an Honorary Mention in the Prix Ars Electronica awards in the Hybrid Arts category.

About Antony Hamilton (direction, choreography and performer):
Antony has performed with Australian Dance Theatre, Kage Physical Theter, Chunky Move, and Lucy Guerin Inc extensively throughout Australia and overseas. As choreographer, he has created works for the Lyon Opera Ballet, Chunky Move, ADT, Dancenorth, LINK, The Victorian College of the Arts, Stompin and Rogue. In 2009, his full-length work Blazeblue Oneline received two Greenroom awards. Antony was the inaugural recipient of both the Russell Page Fellowship in 2004 and the Tanja Liedtke Fellowship in 2009. He was also the winner of the Greenroom Award for Best Male Dancer in 2005, and the Helpmann Award for Best Male Dancer in 2009.

About Byron Perry (direction, choreography, and performer):
Byron has toured Australia, Europe and America developing and performing roles with Douglas Wright, Leigh Warren, Gideon Obarzanek (Chunky Move), Paul Selwyn Norton, Lucy Guerin Inc, Phillip Adams (Ballet Lab), Lloyd Newson (DV8 & Physical Theatre), Kate Champion (Force Majeure), Antony Hamilton and Kate Denborough (Kage). In 2006 he received an Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer and won Best Male Dancer at the Greenroom Awards. He was recently the inaugural Harold Mitchell fellowship recipient for professional development in direction and choreography. He has also choreographed and performed in various projects for television and music videos.

The creation of Joyce SoHo was made possible by the magnanimous support of the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust. Joyce SoHo is supported by private funds from the Alphawood Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, First Republic Bank, Fund for the City of New York, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Open Society Foundations, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation; and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties; and the National Endowment for the Arts. Special support for Joyce SoHo has been provided by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Mertz Gilmore Foundation.