Artist Talk with Antony Hamilton, Choy Ka Fai and Pichet Klunchun

Antony Hamilton was appointed Artistic Director and co-CEO of Chunky Move in 2019. His choreographic work examines the elemental and primordial nature of the body, set against intersecting narratives that explore past, present and future. He often employs a sophisticated melding of movement, sound and visual design to collaboratively imagine complete worlds, and develops new choreographic languages to occupy them. In his time as Artistic Director at Chunky Move, Antony has premiered new works including Token Armies (2019), Universal Estate (2019), Yung Lung (2022), Rewards for the Tribe (2022), AB_TA_Response (2022), 4/4 (2023), You, Beauty (2024), and U>N>I>T>E>D (2025).

Choy Ka Fai is a Berlin-based Singaporean artist. His multidisciplinary art practice situates itself at the intersection of dance, media art and performance. Through research expeditions, pseudo-scientific experiments and documentary performances, Ka Fai appropriates technologies and narratives to imagine new futures of the human body.

In 2019, Ka Fai started working on the CosmicWander series exploring shamanic dance culture in Asia. CosmicWander produced a collection of performances, exhibitions and VR works. It premiered in 2021 with a solo exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum, followed by a VR experience Blue Sky Academy at tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf. In Berlin, the performances of Postcolonial Spirits premiered at Tanz Im August Festival in 2021 and Yishun Is Burning was presented at Tanzplattform Deutschland in 2022.

Ka Fai’s projects have been presented in major institutions worldwide, including Sadler’s Wells (London), ImPulsTanz Festival (Vienna) and Kyoto Experiment (Japan). He was the resident artist at tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf (2017 – 2019) and Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2014 – 2015). Ka Fai graduated with a M.A. in Design Interaction from the Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom.

Pichet Klunchun bridges traditional Thai classical dance language with contemporary sensibility, preserving its heart and wisdom while expanding its expressive range. He began training in Khon, the Thai classical masked dance, at age 16 under Chaiyot Khummanee, one of Thailand’s most respected Khon masters.

Renowned for creating a new choreographic language that blends Thai classical movement with contemporary ideas and aesthetics, Pichet’s work challenges traditional hierarchies, reimagines cultural identity, and explores social and political issues through the body. As both dancer and choreographer, he has participated in numerous intercultural arts programs across Asia, Europe, and North America. In 2010, he founded the Pichet Klunchun Dance Company to create original works and mentor a new generation of professional dancers rooted in Thai classical tradition.

A well-decorated artist, Pichet received the Silpathorn Award in 2006 from the Ministry of Culture of Thailand, the European Cultural Foundation's Princess Margriet Award for Cultural Diversity in 2008, honored Chevalier of the French Arts and Literature Order from the French Ministry of Culture in 2012, and a John D. Rockefeller 3rd Award from the Asian Cultural Council in 2014.