Anouk van Dijk will take over from Gideon Obarzenek as the artistic director of Chunky Move in Melbourne following Gideon Obarzanek’s departure at the end of 2011.
Anouk van Dijk is an internationally acclaimed choreographer, whose work has toured extensively throughout her home country of the Netherlands, and far beyond throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.
“Her appointment builds on Chunky Moves’ commitment to supporting the creation of dance that surprises and delights,” Chunky Move announced in a press release. “Anouk’s work attracts broad audiences through an approach which is daring, innovative and unpredictable in both its form and context.”
Anouk van Dijk began as a dancer, and for almost a decade was lead soloist with the Rotterdam Dance Group and Amanda Miller's Pretty Ugly Dance Company. In 1998 she formed her own company, anoukvandijk dc. “Her enthusiasm for collaboration with individual artists and companies has delivered vital and exciting co-productions. She is currently premiering the site specific, outdoor work MENSCH on the island of Terschelling (Netherlands), which then relocates (and reincarnates) to the sheds of the former Dutch Dock and Shipbuilding Company in Amsterdam.
“This follows the presentation of TRUST (a co-production between anoukvandijk dc and Schaubühne Berlin with regular creative collaborator, writer and director Falk Richter) which opened the 2011 Festival Transamerique in May after performing at the Perth International Festival of the Arts in February. Anouk’s work STAU performed in Australia at the Adelaide Festival of Arts and Sydney Opera House in 2006.”
Anouk van Dijk starts part time from January 2012 and moves to Melbourne in June 2012 to begin full time.