chunky move: mortal engine.

This is completely mesmerizing. Combining video, modern dance, and music (and some kick ass lasers) into a spellbinding multi-disciplinary work, Australian modern dance company Chunky Move’s “Mortal Engine” is totally next level.

Their site says “Mortal Engine is a new 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.”

Via Computerlove™

Comments

  1. Lots of of folks blog about this issue but you wrote down really true words.

  2. Wish I could see this. The “staining shadows” is a wonderful bit.

  3. I saw this live about 2 years ago, it was amazing. Combination of video, dance and music is mind blowing.

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