Chunky and Restless tour to England

After a sold-out run in Melbourne earlier this year as part of RISING Festival, Chunky Move and Restless Dance Theatre’s geometrical playground performance Rewards for the Tribe is heading for England, with a season at the Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, from October 5 to 8.

This will be the first time Restless Dance Theatre has appeared in the UK, though Warwick Arts Centre commissioned the work and hosted the companies for a development workshop in 2019. Chunky Move last performed in the UK in 2012, when it presented Mortal Engine, choreographed by former Chunky Move Artistic Director Gideon Obarzanek, at London’s Southbank Centre.

After the UK run, Chunky Move and Restless Dance Theatre will head to Restless's hometown of Adelaide for a season from October  26 to 29. Chunky Move has not performed in Adelaide since 2014, when they toured with artistic director Antony Hamilton’s Keep Everything.

Rewards for the Tribe is also choreographed and directed by Hamilton. The five dancers bend, crumple and reorganise the asymmetrical set by Jonathon Oxlade that gently pokes fun at the precise angles of Mondrian’s colour block paintings. Together they find beauty in things as they are and question the pursuit of perfection.