KEEP EVERYTHING
Keep Everything works on the premise that from a single point of departure, an endless array of events can unfold when the subconscious is given permission to lead. While developing the work, there is little editing, and even less contextual analysis of the content as it unfolds. In contrast, there is a conscious attempt to avoid neatly organising events into a logical and well crafted dramaturgical narrative. This approach favours the stream of consciousness as the catalyst for forms and shapes to arrive in the mind, and follow in the space. Matters of taste, value and appropriateness within a particular context are all brought into question as deeper instinctive responses to basic human traits drive the creation. The strange patterns and rhythms derived from this ramshackle assemblage of components, in the end, evoke a dichotomy between what has meaning and what is meaningless.
Keep Everything was commissioned by Chunky Move as part of The Next Move series.
Choreography and Direction- Antony Hamilton
Text and Dialogue - Antony Hamilton
Performers - Alisdair Macindoe, Benjamin Hancock, Lauren Langlois.
Set Design - Antony Hamilton
Costume Design - Paula Levis
Sound Design - Juilan Hamilton, Kim Moyes
Lighting Design - Benjamin Cisterne
Projection - Robin Fox
Production Manager - Blair Hart
images- Jeff Busby.
Performance history
(2012)
Premiere - Chunky Move Studios (AU)
(2014)
Vitalstatistix, PICA, Brisbane Powerhouse, Salamanca Arts Centre, Performance Space, Arts House (AU)
images- Jeff Busby.
"Keep Everything is a demonstration of Antony Hamilton’s theory of relativity"
"from some bizarro universe where fear is not known"
Chris Boyd