Mortal Engine

Following acclaimed seasons in Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne and New York, Mortal Engine returns to Sydney! Mortal Engine is a dance-video-music-laser performance using movement and sound responsive projections to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion.

Crackling light and staining shadows represent the most perfect or sinister of souls. Kinetic energy fluidly metamorphoses from the human figure into light image, into sound and back again.

Choreography is focused on movement of unformed beings in an unfamiliar landscape searching to connect and evolve in a constant state of becoming.

Veering between moments of exquisite cosmological perfection and grotesque evolutionary accidents of existence, we are driven forward by the reality of permanent change.

Chunky Move's Mortal Engine was the recipient of the 2008 Live Performance Australia Helpmann Awards Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production, and an 'Honourable Mention - Hybrid Art' in the 2009 Prix Ars Electronica, widely regarded as the most important international award for creativity and pioneering spirit in the field of digital media.

Direction and Choreography: Gideon Obarzanek
Interactive System Design: Frieder Weiss
Laser and Sound Artist: Robin Fox
Composer: Ben Frost
Costume Designer: Paula Levis
Lighting Designer: Damien Cooper
Set Design: Richard Dinnen & Gideon Obarzanek
Multimedia Engineer: Nick Roux

Performers: Kristy Ayre, Sara Black, Marnie Palomares, James Shannon, Adam Synnott, Jorijn Vriesendorp.

"Poetic as well as arresting...visually stunning" New York Times.

"A breathtaking overload of every circuit ... a thoroughly absorbing production ... terrifying, beautiful, unique and absolutely unforgettable." Metro, London

Contains partial nudity, smoke, laser and strobe lighting, loud volume audio.

1 hour, no interval

Preview Mortal Engine on YouTube here