AUDITION NOTICE UNTRAINED USA TOUR 2012

Audition Notice - Untrained USA Tour:
Call Out For Male Non-Dancers

Lucy Guerin Inc is looking for a couple of young men without any dance training to become part of the cast of the USA Tour of the dance production Untrained.

In November 2012 Untrained will tour to the United States starting in New York City.

We are looking for local young men who have no formal dance training to try out for the positions. The successful applicants will gain paid employment and become part of the cast for the USA season.

AUDITION WORKSHOP:
Date: Saturday 26th May
Time: 10am to 1pm
Venue: Lucy Guerin Inc Studio – 14 Batman Street West Melbourne.

The audition is in the form of a dance workshop with Lucy Guerin.

HOW TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Download an Audition Application Kit from the Downloads link above right; visit the Untrained page of our website - http://www.lucyguerininc.com/works/Untrained; or contact Michaela Coventry, Executive Producer - Michaela@LucyGuerinInc.com / 03 9329 4213

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday 14th May 2012.

FIRST RUN 2012

FIRST RUN 2012

First Run kicked off earlier this month, March 5, and it was a superb beginning to the 2012 First Run program. DD Dorvillier joined us as Guest Conversationalist and we saw some intriguing glimpses of Ashley Dyer's studio practice and Phillip Adams' (BalletLab) new work for the VCA Dance students. Looking forward to what's in store for the rest of the year!

The next First Run is Monday May 21st 6:30pm.
Coordination and Facilitation:
Luke George and Brooke Stamp

FULL 2012 DATES:
Monday 5 March
Monday 21 May
Monday 25 June
Monday 6 Aug
Monday 1 October

6:30pm - Free
No booking

Lucy Guerin Inc Studio
14 Batman Street
West Melbourne

First Run is a bi-monthly platform, which aims to enliven discussion around contemporary dance. Artists working across the field of contemporary dance are invited to share explorations in their current practice. The intention is that the work shown is rough, raw and full of possibilities, which encourages audiences to engage in discussion and give feedback to the artists.

Each First Run a guest conversationalist will be invited to the session to help provoke a broader conversation about dance - referencing their own experiences in order to support the development of language, perspective and dialogue for the artists and the audience.

To present work at First Run contact Luke George and Brooke Stamp firstrun@LucyGuerinInc.com
Please see the website for updates closer to each event.

CHAVES / GUERIN COLLABORATION

Lucy is currently working with Brazilian visual artist Marcos Chaves on the first development of a new collaborative project. The project also involves three dancers Alisdair Macindoe, Kirstie McCracken and Harriet Ritchie.
Read more about Marcos and his work: www.marcoschaves.net

This project was made possible by the Australia Latin America Foundation.

COMPANY CLASS: Dance Classes for Professionals

Lucy Guerin Inc will be running dance classes for professionals over April, June and July this year during the development of our new work Weather.

APRIL SCHEDULE:
(Subject to Change)

Dates: Mon - Fri, 2nd - 20th April 2012 (Excluding Easter Monday Pub Hol, April 9)
Time: 10 - 11:15am
Cost: $10
No bookings necessary

WEEK 1
Mon 2: Rennie McDougall
Tues 3: Alisdair Macindoe
Wed 4: Lee Serle
Thurs 5: Sandra Parker
Fri 6: Harriet Ritchie
NB: CLASS RUNNING AS USUAL ON GOOD FRIDAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY

WEEK 2
Mon 9: NO CLASS - EASTER MONDAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY
Tues 10: Harriet Ritchie
Wed 11: Lee Serle
Thurs 12: Sandra Parker
Fri 13: Jo White

WEEK 3
Mon 16: Lee Serle
Tues 17: Harriet Ritchie
Wed 18: Lee Serle
Thurs 19: Sandra Parker
Fri 20: Jo Lloyd

JUNE/JULY TIMETABLE - Still to come

HOTBED WITH DD DORVILLIER

What a pleasure its been having DD Dorvillier and 15 Hotbed participants working in the studio these past two weeks!

As a part of DD's Touch Move Talk Write: open studio practices + a re-enactment workshops, the group have been working on recreating scenes from Jean-Luc Godard's film Prénom Carmen (First Name Carmen). Our studio has been transformed into a film set inside and out!

More about the workshop:
Exploring what is meant by “practice”, by generating practices from what we already know about touching, moving, talking, or writing. We will make and practice these practices by inventing rules, applying different durations and contexts, and doing them in different sequences. Touch, movement, talking, and writing will all get equal time. We will push the notion of practice to extremes in order to discover something about self and unspoken rules. The aim is to proliferate unexpected results, to try many things quickly, and to foment revolution.

Hotbed comes to an end this Friday. For up to date information on future Hotbed programs please subscribe to our e-newsletter or like us on Facebook.

DD Dorvillier has been developing her artistic work in New York City since 1989, as well as performing in the works of others, teaching, curating, and mentoring. She is also an active force in the international dance scene. In 2003 she was awarded a Bessie for Choreography of Dressed for Floating, and in 2010 for her performance in Parades & Changes, replays, a re-activation by French choreographer Anne Collod, of Anna Halprin's seminal work. In 1991 she and dancer/choreographer Jennifer Monson created the Matzoh Factory. For over a decade the studio was an accessible grassroots site for wild experimentation where many choreographers and artists congregated for low-tech and low-cost shows, rehearsals, parties, and readings. She has worked with and been deeply influenced by: Jennifer Monson, Zeena Parkins, Jennifer Lacey, Yvonne Meier, Sarah Michelson, and Karen Finley, among others. She has been a Movement Research Artist in Residence twice, was curator of the Movement Research Festival twice, and co-editor of the double issue of the the MR Performance Journal “Release”. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts Choreography Fellowship (2000), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2007), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2011). Her work with her company, human future dance corps, has been presented in New York at The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, and PS 122, among others. Internationally she has presented her work at ImPulsTanz, Vienna; DeSingel, Antwerp, STUK, Leuven; Hau/Hebel am Ufer, Berlin; Frascati, Amsterdam; Zagreb Dance Weeks, Zagreb; Springdance Dialogues/TSEH Festival, Moscow; and many others. Her current project Danza Permanente, produced by human future dance corps, is co-produced internationally, and in New York by The Kitchen.

For more information about the Hotbed program visit the Hotbed page of our website.

Pictured: DD Dorvillier and Rebecca Jensen
Image by Laura Levitus

LUCY GUERIN INC AT APAM

Image © Mike Hollingshead / Science Faction

LUCY GUERIN INC AT APAM 2012

Lucy Guerin Inc will be attending the 10th Australian Performing Arts Market 26 Feb - 1 Mar 2012.

Look out for the Searchlight Pitch of our new work Weather.

Date: Monday 27 Feb
Time: 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Venue: Piano Bar
http://www.performingartsmarket.com.au/searchlight/company?id=2055

Preview the Weather creative development taster on Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/33815240
Enquiries contact Michaela Coventry, Executive Producer Michaela@LucyGuerinInc.com

First Run Monday 5th March

The first to kick off 2012!

Presenting Artists:
Phillip Adams (BalletLab)
Ashley Dyer (Next Wave)

Guest Conversationalist:
DD Dorvillier (New York)

Monday March 5
6:30pm - Free
No booking

Lucy Guerin Inc Studio
14 Batman Street
West Melbourne

Full First Run dates in 2012:
Please note - after March First Run is moving to Thursday evenings!

Monday March 5
Thursday 24 May
Thursday 28 June
Thursday 9 August
Thursday 18 October

For more information about First Run head to
http://www.lucyguerininc.com/studio-projects/First_Run

Image: Jane Smith, First Run May 2011. Pictured (L-R): Lee Serle, Paula Lay, Daniel Newell, Brooke Stamp and Luke George.

Studio Resident Antony Hamilton

Antony Hamilton is the current Resident in our Studio, rehearsing for the next three weeks in the lead up to the premiere of his newest work Black Project 1 at Arts House this March.

Black Project 1 is part of a catalytic double bill with choreographer/performer Melanie Lane, in which the symbiotic elements of body, light, objects and sound occupy time and space to explode any perception of a static universe.

Hamilton’s Black Project 1 meditates on the synthesis between the gravity-bound body and its connection to the forces and minerals of the earth. Two beings relentlessly traverse a panoramic, linear terrain, leaving artefacts of human intervention in their wake as they go forth into solitude and emptiness.

Lane’s Tilted Fawn creates an intimate, intense, audio-sensitive universe where our urge to seek transformation through advanced technologies is brought into question. This is a world of sensory delight, in which an orchestra of lo-fi sonic objects propels a lone dancer through landscapes that are by turns luscious, melancholic, stark and utopian.

Dates: Wednesday 7 – Sunday 11 March

For more info and bookings head to the Arts House website
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/ArtsHouse/Program/Pages/CloudsAboveBerlin.aspx

Home Art in the Sustainable Living Festival

In December 2011 across North Melbourne and West Melbourne an international art project ( A Climate Commission) was commissioned by TippingPoint Australia and the City of Melbourne - a collaboration between choreographer Lucy Guerin and three households who created new dance works performed by them in their own homes.

By being local in its creation and presentation and with support from the City of Melbourne's sustainability team to measure and reduce the emissions of some of the participants houses and work places, the project models a new way of making low carbon art that offers a chance for neighbours to see each other in a new light.

Come along to the premier free screening of Home Art - a short documentary - at Federation Square Big Screen as part of the Sustainable Living Festival at 9pm on Saturday 18 February.

http://www.fedsquare.com/events/sustainable-living-festival/

For more information on TippingPoint Australia visit the website here.

Image by Ponch Hawkes

Moving Image by Rhian Hinckley

Home Art is a Climate Commission produced by the City of Melbourne and TippingPoint Australia.

HOTBED 6 WITH DD DORVILLIER: Applications Now Closed

HOTBED 6 WITH DD DORVILLIER: Applications Open - Deadline extended until Midday Friday 27th Jan

Hotbed workshop #6 with DD Dorvillier

Dates: March 5 – 16 2012
Time: Monday – Friday, 10:30am – 5pm
APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED: Midday, Friday 27th January
Workshop is free of charge
Please note there is a maximum of 12 participants

Lucy Guerin Inc
14 Batman St
West Melbourne

Touch Move Talk Write: open studio practices + a re-enactment

The workshop will be a triptych, one part structure, two parts content.

1. Exploring what is meant by “practice”, by generating practices from what we already know about touching, moving, talking, or writing. We will make and practice these practices by inventing rules, applying different durations and contexts, and doing them in different sequences. Touch, movement, talking, and writing will all get equal time. We will push the notion of practice to extremes in order to discover something about self and unspoken rules. The aim is to proliferate unexpected results, to try many things quickly, and to foment revolution. We can use 2 and 3 as content.

2. Part of practicing will be a daily and evolving re-construction of the bank robbery scene from the film “Prenom Carmen” by Jean-Luc Godard.

3. Learning the generic phrases from Danza Permanente, bits and pieces of a Beethoven String Quartet, made visible in silence.


DD Dorvillier has been developing her artistic work in New York City since 1989, as well as performing in the works of others, teaching, curating, and mentoring. She is also an active force in the international dance scene. In 2003 she was awarded a Bessie for Choreography of Dressed for Floating, and in 2010 for her performance in Parades & Changes, replays, a re-activation by French choreographer Anne Collod, of Anna Halprin's seminal work. In 1991 she and dancer/choreographer Jennifer Monson created the Matzoh Factory. For over a decade the studio was an accessible grassroots site for wild experimentation where many choreographers and artists congregated for low-tech and low-cost shows, rehearsals, parties, and readings. She has worked with and been deeply influenced by: Jennifer Monson, Zeena Parkins, Jennifer Lacey, Yvonne Meier, Sarah Michelson, and Karen Finley, among others. She has been a Movement Research Artist in Residence twice, was curator of the Movement Research Festival twice, and co-editor of the double issue of the the MR Performance Journal “Release”. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts Choreography Fellowship (2000), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2007), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2011). Her work with her company, human future dance corps, has been presented in New York at The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, and PS 122, among others. Internationally she has presented her work at ImPulsTanz, Vienna; DeSingel, Antwerp, STUK, Leuven; Hau/Hebel am Ufer, Berlin; Frascati, Amsterdam; Zagreb Dance Weeks, Zagreb; Springdance Dialogues/TSEH Festival, Moscow; and many others. Her current project Danza Permanente, produced by human future dance corps, is co-produced internationally, and in New York by The Kitchen.

TO APPLY: Download an application form using the link at the top right of this page, or by visiting the Hotbed page of our website: http://www.lucyguerininc.com/studio-projects/Hotbed

Applications due Midday Friday 27 January
Submission by email to: Laura@LucyGuerinInc.com

Or for any further queries please email Laura@LucyGuerinInc.com

Image by Zeena Parkins

Attention: Secondment Notifications - 2012 Applicants will be notified by Friday 27th January

Due to an overwhelming number of applicants for 2012, decisions will not be made until the new year.

Applicants will be notified by Friday 27th January.
For any enquiries regarding the matter please email Laura@LucyGuerinInc.com who will respond to you after the 10th January 2012.