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LUCY GUERIN INC.

Lucy Guerin Inc is an Australian dance company established in Melbourne in 2002 to create and tour new dance works. Renowned for the skill and originality of its small group of performers, it is a flexible organisation dedicated to challenging and extending the art of contemporary dance. The company is committed to the exploration of everyday events and the redefinition of the formal concerns of dance. New productions are generated through an experimental approach to creative process and may involve voice, video, sound, text and industrial design as well as Guerin’s lucid physical structures. Crucially, this is always a choreographic exploration, striving for visual, emotional and physical revelations that could not be generated or communicated in any other artform than dance. Lucy Guerin Inc has been a major influence on the growing identity of Australian dance which stems from the company’s programmatic research into choreographic practice supported through several initiatives. Pieces for Small Spaces is its annual curated program for new dance works by emerging choreographers in Melbourne. First Run provides an opportunity for artists to share their current practice through studio showings of first-draft works. The company also offers workshops with local and international artists, presents one-off special events and maintains an artist-in-residence and secondment program. Lucy Guerin Inc has been supported by The Australia Council, Arts Victoria, City of Melbourne, the Besen Family Foundation, The Myer Foundation and the Harold Mitchell Foundation.

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March 2010

UPCOMING HOTBED WORKSHOP

Workshop # 3

Mette Ingvartsen (Denmark)

Dates: 29 March - 1 April
Time: 10am - 3pm
Lucy Guerin Inc Studio
14 Batman street
West Melbourne

Application deadline: 6pm Monday March 15th
Workshop is free of charge

Work-shop on practice

What are the limits of what we call a practice and how do we work on developing it?
In this work-shop we will explore how practices within the performing arts can be defined today. Are we practicing when we are reading, writing, thinking, imagining or rather when we are moving, testing and trying?

Between physical, verbal, mental and immaterial practices we will be dancing, discussing, talking and moving. Sharing ideas on how to make performances and how to develop methodologies that correspond to specific areas of interest.

Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish choreographer and dancer. From 1999 she studied in Amsterdam and
Brussels where she in summer 2004 graduated from the performing arts school P.A.R.T.S. Since summer 2002 she has instigated several research projects and made numerous performances, among others “Manual Focus”(2003), “50/50”(2004), “to come”(2005) and “Why We Love Action”(2006).

Her more recent work evolves around questions of perception and sensation including “It’s in The Air” (2008) a collaboration with Jefta Van dinther and with her latest two pieces “GIANT CITY” and “Evaporated Landscapes” (2009).

Besides her performance work she is engaged in research and her practice involves writing, making, performing and documenting work. She teaches and gives work-shops often related to developing methodologies within choreographic practices. Since 2005 she has been working on “everybodys”, an open ongoing collaborative project based on open source strategies, aiming at producing tools and games that can be used by artists to develop work.

In 2008 she participated in 6Months1Location initiated by Xavier Le Roy and Bojana Cvejic, confronting questions around education, structures of production and artistic exchange. During the 6 months she worked on the YouTube project “Where is my Privacy”, infiltrating and utilizing contemporary communication tools as a way to rethink choreographic production. As an extendsion of 6M1L she took part in organizing the festival Inpresentable09 in Madrid, usually curated by Juan Dominguez and she edited a book documenting the project’s activities.

She is part of the collective COCO’s who presented “Breeding, Brains and Beauty” in 2008 and has collaborated with Jan Ritsema and Bojana Cvejic on several theater performances.
www.aisikl.net
In 2010 she is working on several smaller site-specific events, dealing with notions of artificial nature.

For more information please contact Sarah Rodigari at Lucy Guerin Inc
sarah@lucyguerin.com
03 9329 4213

February 2010

Untrained at Adelaide Festival and APAM, 24 - 27 February

Lucy Guerin Inc presents Untrained at Adelaide Festival and APAM

So, you think you can dance? Untrained is a quirky and irreverent theatrical exploration that takes its performers and its audience into a whole new undefined experience. Two of these men are highly skilled, experienced dancers and two are acclaimed visual artists with no movement training whatsoever. The complex, refined movements that one man can do with ease, another can only approximate.
Choreographer/ Director: Lucy Guerin
Dancers/ Performers: Antony Hamilton, Byron Perry
Visual Artists / Performers: Ross Coulter, Simon Obarzanek
Producer: Michaela Coventry

24-27 February, 7pm
28 February, 5pm
Adelaide Centre for the Arts
39 Light Square
Bookings: 121 246 or
www. adelaidefestival.com
Opening Night, February 24th is sold out

First Run

First Run happens this coming Monday February 15th.
Artist
Kristy Ayre
EGG
Phantom Limbs

Please join us to view and discuss the development of new works by these artist.

Coordination and Facilitation:
Luke George and Brooke Stamp
firstrun@lucyguerin.com

Monday 15 February
6:30pm
14 Batman Street, West Melbourne, 3056