請注意！《致命引擎》不是一般的舞蹈節目，它是一部結合舞蹈、多媒體影像、音樂與雷射的新形態演出。在編舞家基登˙歐巴任尼克與一群傑出的藝術家持續探索下，讓科技、美學與動能巧妙地融合，並賦予彼此延伸的意義。
《致命引擎》關注於關係中的連結、衝突與孤立等不斷變動的狀態。雙人舞部分可視為雙人肢體對話、或是獨立個體試圖逃離內在的黑暗、死亡、性與渴望。能夠感應聲音與動能的互動影像，與舞者的動作精密配合，讓人體轉化為動態的能量、光影、聲音以及一個個炫目詭譎的幻象世界。
演出最高潮所呈現的畫面是十分驚人的，從舞台上產生的巨大黑色雲霧，逐漸吞沒觀眾；極亮的綠色雷射光束在大廳中掃射；高頻率的音樂穿透耳膜……顯示出爆炸性的威力，徹底顛覆平日的感官習慣。
本製作獲得多項殊榮，包括澳洲演藝協會頒發之海普曼獎「最佳視覺或肢體劇場」，更榮獲號稱電子藝術界奧斯卡的「電子藝術大獎」。
編舞家 基登‧歐巴任尼克曾於昆士蘭芭蕾舞團、雪梨舞團擔任舞者，之後成為獨立舞者和編舞家，與許多舞團合作，包括來自澳洲芭蕾舞團、荷蘭芭蕾舞團等等創作委託。1995年，基登成立塊動舞蹈視覺劇場，持續不斷地試圖重新定義什麼是現代舞，以及其可能性，在作品內容與形式上有許多驚人的突破及變化，獲得國際間極佳的讚譽。
Be warned: This is not a performance for the fainthearted. 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.
As a development from the original solo GLOW, Mortal Engine looks at relationships, connection and disconnection, isolation and togetherness, in a state of continual flux. Conflicts between the self and shadowy other – the other within as well as the other as the other. Duets are seen as both couples and as singular selves struggling to escape inner darkness – mortality, sexuality, desire. In 2008 Chunky Move received Best Dance Work for GLOW and Best Visual or Physical Theatre Production for Mortal Engine at the Live Performance Australia Helpmann Awards. In 2009, Mortal Engine received an Honourable Mention in the Prix Ars Electronica Awards in the Hybrid Arts category.
Gideon Obarzanek founded Chunky Move in 1995 and has been its Artistic Director to date. Chunky Move’s work constantly seeks to redefine what is or what can be contemporary dance within an ever-evolving Australian culture. The Company’s work is both diverse in form and content and has earned an enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance.
