August 2010

Structure and Sadness at
Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival
18-21 August, 8:15pm
22 August, 2:15pm
Doris Duke Theatre
Massachusetts
www.jacobspillow.org

Choreographer:
Lucy Guerin
Dancers:
Kyle Kremerskothen,
Lina Limosani,
Laura Levitus,
Alisdair Macindoe,
Byron Perry, Harriet Ritchie
Composer: Gerald Mair
Set and Lighting Design: Bluebottle: Ben Cobham and Andrew Livingston
Motion Graphics: Michaela French
Costumes: Paula Levis
Dramaturge: Maryanne Lynch
Production Manager: Richard Dinnen for Megafun
Producer: Michaela Coventry

Training the Untrained

Visit the Arts Victoria website to read about Lucy Guerin came to work with two men with no dance experience at all to create Untrained.
Training the Untrained

First Run Guest facilitator
Tere O'Connor
2 August - 6:30pm
Free - no bookings
Lucy Guerin Inc Studio
14 Batman St,
West Melbourne

July 2010

Tickets are now on sale for Lucy Guerin Inc's new work HUMAN INTEREST STORY
Premiere Season:
July 23 - Aug 1 at Malthouse Theatre Melbourne
Book now tickets are selling fast!
For reviews please see
The Age
The Australian

NOW NOW NOW
A new work choreographed by Luke George opens this Wednesday July 28
Premiere Season:
July 28 - August 1 at Dancehouse, Melbourne
Commissioned by Lucy Guerin Inc

Human Interest Story

Choreographer: Lucy Guerin
Set Designer: Gideon Obarzanek
Realising Designer: Anna Cordingley
Costume Designer: Paula Levis
Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson
Composer & Sound Designer: Jethro Woodward

Performed by
Stephanie Lake, Alisdair Macindoe, Talitha Maslin,
Harriet Ritchie, Stuart Shugg & Jessica Wong
Very special newscast by Anton Enus (World News Australia - SBS)

Dates: July 23 – August 1
Fri, Sat, Wed, Thur, & Sat- 7:30pm
Tue 27th - 6:30pm followed by time to talk
Sat 31st - 2pm matinee
Sun 1st - 5pm
Venue: Malthouse Theatre Melbourne
Merlyn Theatre
Bookings: www.malthousetheatre.com.au/page/HUMAN_INTEREST_STORY

“THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE.” Marshall McLuhan

Our world is saturated with news. Unceasing torrents of information transport us from battlefields and crime scenes in one moment, to celebrity homes and our own backyards the next. But how does the media’s unending flow of words and images shape us?

Through an explosive combination of imagery, gesture and sound, Human Interest Story explores our shared consumption of media news, one that punctuates our most domestic spaces and challenges our sympathies for those in distant places. With stunning inventiveness, Lucy Guerin confronts the personal impact of those global crises delivered daily to our doorsteps. In Guerin’s hands the distortions of time and distance evoked by the news transform into a dynamic, physical investigation of our comprehension of the modern world. Just like her tour de force, Structure and Sadness, Lucy Guerin’s almost surreal creations reveal to us what cannot yet be said.

A Malthouse Theatre, Lucy Guerin Inc & Perth International Arts Festival Commission

This Project is Supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria, Interconnections and New Work For Festivals Initiatives managed By The Australia Council, The Australian Government’s Arts Funding and Advisory Body

NOW NOW NOW

Choreographer: Luke George
Performers: Kristy Ayre, Timothy Harvey & Luke George
Design & Production: Bluebottle
Dramaturge: Martyn Coutts

Dates: July 28 to Saturday July 31 at 8pm Sunday August 1 at 5pm
Venue: Dancehouse 150 Princes Street North Carlton
Tickets: $22 Full, $18 Conc, $15 Dancehouse Members
Bookings: Dancehouse

Can we be 'in the moment'?

NOW NOW NOW is a new full length dance performance by choreographer Luke George that proposes this question to its performers and audience.
We seek to be in the moment, yet through the pursuit of this, we move further and further away from it.
George is drawn to the paradox of this notion and how it parallels the act of performance - which is happening both in real time between the audience and the performer, and yet is highly constructed.
In the presence of an audience, 3 performers will attempt to be physically and mentally in the moment - NOW NOW NOW!

"a dizzying example of form as content." - Real Time (LIFESIZE)


NOW NOW NOW is commissioned by Lucy Guerin Inc. The project has been assisted by The Keir Foundation, The Besen Family Foundation, Ausdance Victoria and the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its funding and advisory body.

SHIFT/COMMAND/4
A Snapshot from the LGI archive

Lucy Guerin Inc is nearing its 10th year of operation and prior to the company’s formation Lucy Guerin had been creating independent works since 1993. The Lucy Guerin Inc archive of recorded documentation, press material, reviews, writings, and interviews etc. is currently being developed into an active resource for dancers, choreographers, historians, and students or anyone wanting information about the company’s past.

The archive will leave an accurate record of the company, its associates and activities, which will contribute to the evolution and understanding of the development and history of dance. It is intended as an active project which will engage with the public through the website and social networks. Selected footage and articles will be featured in an online snapshot to give the archive a presence beyond stored information.

Untrained in Geelong

you have to work hard to resist the unexpected charm of this show
Alison Croggon – Theatre Notes March 2009

Concept/ Direction: Lucy Guerin
Performers: Dean Cross, Michael Hussey-Smith, James Shannon and Billy-Joe Wikitera

Geelong

Dates: Friday 2 July & Saturday 3 July
Venue: Geelong performing Arts Centre,50 Little Malop St Geelong
Tickets: Tel (03) 5225 1200
BooK online: www.gpac.org.au

Studio Hire

Lucy Guerin Inc Studio is a versatile rehearsal space which can be used for rehearsals, dance classes, open rehearsals, showings of works-in-progress, and forums.

For Specifications and more information please see our website www.lucyguerin.com/about/Studio or contact Sarah
sarah@lucyguerin.com
Tel:(03) 9329 42313

June 2010

First Run this Monday, June 21
Artists
Tim Darbyshire
Rennie McDougall
Elanor Jane Webber

Coordinated and Facilitated by
Luke George and Brooke Stamp

6:30pm - No charge
Lucy Guerin Inc Studio
14 Batman Street
West Melbourne

Bromance Wed June 2 at Performance Space Sydney

Director: Alisdair Macindoe
Choreographers: Alisdair Macindoe and Adam Synnott
Sound & Lighting Design: Alisdair Macindoe
Video effect & Lighting Design: Adam Synnott
Dancers: Alisdair Macindoe, Lee Serle, Jay Robinson and Adam Synnott
Costume Design: Paula Levis

Dates:Wed 2 – Sat 5 June, 8pm
Workshop with Alisdair Macindoe, Thur 3 5pm
Post Show Q&A, Thur 3 June
Venue: CarriageWorks, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh
Tickets: $30 Full, $20 Concession
Booking and more details: www.performancespace.com.au/?p=148

Untrained, Thur June 3 at Frankston and Sat June 5 at Kingston

Frankston

Date: Thursday 3 June 8pm
Venue: Frankston Arts Centre, Davey Street, Frankston
Tickets: Tel (03) 9784 1060
Book online: www. artscentre.frankston.vic.gov.au

Kingston

Date: Saturday June 5
Venue: Kingston Arts Centre
979 Nepean Highway, Kingston
Tickets: Tel (03) 9556 4440
Book online:www.kingstonarts.com.au/performing-arts

Wangaratta

Date: Tuesday 8 June 7:30pm
Venue: Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre - Alpine MDF Theatre
33 - 37 Ford Street, Wangaratta

Tickets: Tel (03) 5722 8105



May 2010


Bromance opens at Next Wave Festival this week
Untrained opens this Thursday in Colac and Friday in Dandenong

Bromance Inspired by their personal stories and experiences of brotherhood, choreographers Alisdair Macindoe and Adam Synnott explore the complex and intimate relationships that exist between men.
Bromance is a revealing new dance work that delves into the psyche of two young men traveling through a minefield of nostalgia on the road to manhood.

Artists
Director: Alisdair Macindoe
Choreographers: Alisdair Macindoe and Adam Synnott
Sound & Lighting Design: Alisdair Macindoe
Video effect & Lighting Design:Adam Synnott
Dancers: Alisdair Macindoe, Lee Serle, Jay Robinson and Adam Synnott
Costume Design: Paula Levis

Dates: Wed, 26 May to Sat 29 May, 8:30pm
Sun, 30 May, 5:30pm
Venue: Arts House, Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
Tickets: $25 Full, $18 Concession
Booking and more details:www.nextwave.org.au/festival/projects/93-bromance
Tel:1300 727 432
or
melbourne.vic.gov.au/ArtsHouse/Bookings/Pages/Bromance.aspx
Tel:(03)9322 3715

Bromance is co-commissioned by Next Wave (through Kickstart 2009), Lucy Guerin Inc and Performance Space, produced by Lucy Guerin Inc and presented by Arts House.



Untrained tours Victoria


Untrained is touring Victoria with a new cast after premiering in Melbourne at Dance Massive 2009, and being presented at the 2009 Spring Dance Season at the Sydney Opera House, 2010 Adelaide International Arts Festival and 2010 Hong Kong Performing Arts Festival.

Four new men take to the stage. Two are amongst Australia’s hottest young dancers and two with no training whatsoever have been selected from a group of likely lads in Dandenong.

you have to work hard to resist the unexpected charm of this show
Alison Croggon – Theatre Notes March 2009

Artists
Concept/ Direction: Lucy Guerin
Performers: Dean Cross, Michael Hussey-Smith, James Shannon and Billy-Joe Wikitera

Colac

Date: Thursday 27 May, 8pm
Venue: Colac Otway Performing Arts and Cultural Centre, Cnr Gellibrand and Rae Streets Colac
Tickets :Tel (03) 5232 2077
Book online: www.copacc.com.au


Dandenong

Dates: Friday 28 May & Saturday 29 May,8pm
Venue: The Castle, Hemmings Park, Dandenong
Tickets: Tel (03) 9771 6666

Book online:www.greaterdandenong.com





International Residency Opportunities


K3 – Zentrum für Choreograhpie | Tanzplan Hamburg: Residency Programme Apri l– December 2011 (deadline 31 May 2010)

For the fifth time K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg is offering three residencies to choreographers at the beginning of their professional career. The applicants should have realised their first own works. Duration of the residency is April to December 2011. Find further information about the residency programme and application requirements in English and German on www.k3-hamburg.de.

This call for applications is subject to the continuation of the subsidies for K3 | TANZPLAN HAMBURG from 2011 on by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.




Hotbed workshop #4, Tere O’Connor (USA) with Lucy Guerin (Australia)


APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN

July 26 – August 6, 2010
Monday to Friday – 10am to 5pm
Free

Lucy Guerin Inc
14 Batman St
West Melbourne
Applications close 6pm, 23 May

For more information and to download an application form please see our website: www.lucyguerin.com/research/Hotbed

or contact Sarah Sarah@lucyguerin.com
Tel:(03)9239 4213



Performances

LUCY GUERIN INC AND MALTHOUSE THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENT HUMAN INTEREST STORY

Artists
Choreographer: Lucy Guerin
Set Design: Gideon Obarzanek
Realising Design: Anna Cordingley
Costume Design: Paula Levis
Lighting Design: Paul Jackson
Composer & Sound Design: Jethro Woodward
Performers: Stephanie Lake, Alisdair Macindoe, Talitha Maslin, Harriet Ritchie and Stuart Shugg

Merlyn Theatre
July 23 – August 1
For more details go to: www.malthousetheatre.com.au/page/HUMAN_INTEREST_STORY




Lucy Guerin Inc Supports Next Wave Artists


BROMANCE
Bromance Inspired by their personal stories and experiences of brotherhood, choreographers Alisdair Macindoe and Adam Synnott explore the complex and intimate relationships that exist between men.
Bromance is a revealing new dance work that delves into the psyche of two young men travelling through a minefield of nostalgia on the road to manhood.

Artists
Director: Alisdair Macindoe
Choreographers: Alisdair Macindoe and Adam Synnott
Sound & Lighting Design: Alisdair Macindoe
Video effect & Lighting Design:Adam Synnott
Dancers:Alisdair Macindoe,Lee Serle, Jay Robinson and Adam Synnott
Costume Design: Paula Levis

Dates: Wed, 26 May 2010 to Sat 29 May, 8:30pm
Sun, 30 May,5:30pm
Venue: Arts House, Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne
Tickets: $25 Full, $18 Concession
Booking and more details:www.nextwave.org.au/festival/projects/93-bromance
Tel:1300 727 432
or
melbourne.vic.gov.au/ArtsHouse/Bookings/Pages/Bromance.aspx
Tel:(03)9322 3715

BROMANCE was co-commissioned by Next Wave (through Kickstart 2009), Lucy Guerin Inc and Performance Space, produced by Lucy Guerin Inc.

Who Knows What
Who Knows What is an experimental dance event conceived by Rob McCredie and made in collaboration with a group of Melbourne’s best emerging dancers. Part performance, part meeting, part happening, Who Knows What walks an exquisitely fine line between choreography and chaos.

Artists:
Director & choreographer:Rob McCredie
Performers:Natalie Abbott, Alice Dixon, Caroline Meaden and Melissa Jones

Dates: Wed 19 May to Sat 22 May, 8pm
Saturday 22 May – 2pm
Venue: Horti Hall, 31 Victoria Street, Melbourne
Tickets: $17 Full, $12 Concession
Booking and more details: www.nextwave.org.au/festival/projects/130-who-knows-what
Tel:1300 727 432

Created in residency at Lucy Guerin Inc
Supporters: Performance Space, The Australia Council for the Arts, Lucy Guerin Inc.



First Run Coordinators Brook Stamp and Luke George in Balletlab’s inaugural Masterclass program


A four day intensive studio-based program for emerging professional dancers. Grow your contemporary expertise. Learn BalletLab repertoire and participate in a workshop on process with Artistic Director, Phillip Adams and long-term collaborators, Brooke Stamp and Luke George.

Two courses offered:
22 – 25 June and 29 June – 2 July 2010
Limited places only

To apply please email a one page CV, a short statement outlining how this program will assist your career goals (500 words) and a photo of yourself to BalletLab Workshops admin@balletlab.com or mail to 2/170 Southbank Blvd, Southbank, Victoria 3006.

Applications Close Friday May 14
For more information please call Balletlab (03) 9645 9937




April 2010




Research Coordinator Position Available


Lucy Guerin Inc is looking for a motivated and thorough research coordinator who has the initiative and drive to set up and maintain the new research arm of our organisation.

Due to the nature of the project it is envisaged that the initial stage will be completed at Lucy Guerin Inc in West Melbourne and that further stages could be completed off site, depending on the successful applicant’s situation.

Project to Start – 17th May 2010
Project to Finish – 6th August 2010

This is a new position that has the potential to gather momentum and become more permanent.
For a more detailed description and to apply for this job please go to the news page on this website www.lucyguerin.com/news/Latest_News and download the job description pdf underneath the media tab in the top right hand corner of this page.

Applications are to be submitted by email, received no later than 5pm Monday 3rd May 2010.
Michaela Coventry - Producer
michaela@lucyguerin.com



Professional Dance Classes

12th April - 14th May
Monday to Friday - 10am to 11:15am

$10

Lucy Guerin inc Studio
14 Batman Street
West Melbourne

No booking required

Teachers
12th April - 30th April
Mon: Kristy Ayre
Tue: Lee Serle
Wed: Stephanie Lake
Thur: Rebecca Hilton ( except April 22, a free shaking session will take place)
Fri: Yoga with Vishal

Teachers
3rd May -14th May
Mon: Alisdair Macindoe
Tue: Lee Serle
Wed: Stephanie Lake
Thur: Rebecca Hilton
Fri: Yoga with Vishal



Lucy Guerin Inc is featured in RealTime online by Sophie Travis as an Archive highlight.

To read more about Lucy, the company, the history of our work and how it has been received over the years go to:
www.realtimearts.net



March 2010

UPCOMING HOTBED WORKSHOP


Workshop # 3




Mette Ingvartsen (Denmark)

APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 17th

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

Application deadline: 6pm Wednesday March 17th
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



RealTime Arts online archive of Lucy Guerin Inc

Lucy Guerin Inc is featured in RealTime online by Sophie Travis as an Archive highlight. To read more about Lucy, the company, the history of our work and how it has been received over the years go to:
www.realtimearts.net



Untrained March 13 -14 Asia Pacific Dance Platform Hong Kong Arts Festival


Untrained will be presented this coming Saturday March 13th and Sunday March 14th as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival Asia Pacific Dance Platform.

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

BOOKINGS & MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
www.artsfestival.org/en/prog/34/





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