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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.

Latest News

September 2010

Lucy Guerin choreographs
Transitions Dance Company in London

SHIFT/COMMAND/4
Soft Centre

Studio Resident
Antony Hamilton

Tania Liedtke Foundation Fellowship 2011

Lucy Guerin to choreograph Transitions Dance Company

This month Lucy will be heading to Trinity Laban in London, one of Europe's leading institutions for dance artist training, where she will choreograph a new work for Transitions Dance Company.
Whilst there, Lucy will also be working at Sadlers Wells with The Gate Theatre , a company renown for its dedication to and production of international work.

SHIFT/COMMAND/4 White Oak Dance Project

In 1999 the director of the White Oak Dance Project, Mikhail Baryshnikov invited Lucy Guerin to contribute two works to a triple bill of acclaimed choreographers, consisting of Trisha Brown, Mark Morris, and Tamasaburo Bando. The White Oak Project began in 1989 after Mikhail Baryshnikov had left the American Ballet Company after serving nine years as artistic director and wanted to form a small touring company. Many choreographers have been commissioned to make new works for the small company such as Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Meg Stuart, and Tere O’Connor who recently held a workshop at Lucy Guerin Inc in August 2010.

Lucy created a new work for the White Oak Dance Project, Soft Centre, and remounted Two Lies, created in 1996. Originally premiering in New York the White Oak Dance Project then toured to
Sadlers Wells, London in the same year of 1999. Mikhail performed in Soft Centre along side Raquel Aedo, an American born dancer who had been dancing with the White Oak Dance Project from 1994.

To see and excerpt of this commission go to http://tinyurl.com/25xfdwj

Studio Resident Antony Hamilton

This September Antony Hamilton will be in the studio developing his new work
INTERSECTION, a site specific dance work that invites the audience to ponder and meditate on the majestic emptiness of the urban wasteland. It will be a work that honours and monumentalizes the city's forgotten places, that acts as a kind of catacombs of cultures past within the urban environment.

Choreographer:
Performers: Melanie Lane, Alisdair Macindoe, Josh Mu and Lily Paskas
Composer: Robin Fox
Costume Designer: Paula Levis
To read more about Antony and his work please see our Studio Residency page under Research

Tania Liedtke Foundation Fellowship 2011

In partnership with Arts House and Lucy Guerin Inc, a program of opportunities and experiences is offered to a European (incl. UK) dancer/choreographer between the ages of 20 and 35 years. The program takes place in Melbourne and Sydney from 15th March to 30th April 2011.

To find out more about the application and to download an application form see:
www.tanja-liedtke-foundation.org

Please note: this fellowship is an opportunity for European dancers to come and work in Australia.