Hotbed

Hotbed is Lucy Guerin Inc’s workshop program for professional dancer makers. Workshops are led by local and international choreographers to encourage a broad understanding in the local dance community of current contemporary dance thinking and practice. These workshops are generally free of charge and participants are selected through an application process.

Past Hotbed Facilitators:

2008: Tere O'Connor
2009: Lucy Guerin, Ros Warby and Becky Hilton
2010: Mette Ingvartsen and Tere O'Connor with Lucy Guerin
2011: Mårten Spångberg

2012 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

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.

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.

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.

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

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


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