Food Chain is a new dance theatre work exploring animality, sex, voyeurism, performance and power.

This striking new German-Australian dance theatre work is from Gavin Webber and Grayson Millwood’s new venture, Animal Farm Collective. They were key members of Splintergroup (lawn, roadkill), who’ve worked across Europe with choreographers such as Sasha Waltz, Luc Dunberry and Wim Vandekybus.

Food Chain features their trademark gutsy physicality, arresting choreography, surreal imagery, and wicked sense of humour. In this nature documentary turned on its head, the animals are the voyeurs of human behaviour, conducting experiments to see how much of the animal is left in us. Food Chain begins in the natural, animal world, and ends in the human world – but seen from the animal perspective.

“This intelligent and physically explosive work is about to explore the animal in all of us… Webber and Millwood spearheaded the team that brought together the memorable physical theatre pieces Lawn and Roadkill. Their exceptional physical skill and daring, along with their bold imagination, has not lessened over the past five years, and it is exciting to see new performers working with them…  All the elements are there for further refinement in this premiere season. And it is already outstanding.”  Sydney Morning Herald

“This mesmerizing new work by Animal Farm Collective… challenges our perceptions of the world and the environment we live in… From the opening moment when a mossy Ent-like figure (the spirit of the forest?) slowly slithered down the tree I was hooked.”  Arts Hub

Food Chain premiered at Parramatta Riverside Theatres and the Seymour Centre in January 2011, presented by Sydney Festival.