Untrained

Premiere 11th March 2009
at Arts House, Meat Market
Dance Massive, Australia

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.

Four men take to the stage. 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.

All are given the same instructions. It’s how they execute them that displays an individual portrait of each man’s character, as well as an unavoidable comparison between the participants. It’s the evolution of information, built up through units of action, that shows what they have in common and where their physical histories set them apart.

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

“I left wanting to sit down and see it all again. It’s wonderful inimitable stuff… a fascinating combination of dance, theatre, improvisation and multimedia all presented with just the right amount of quirk and irreverence”
Simonne Michelle Wells Australian Stage March 2009


Concept/ Direction: Lucy Guerin,
Performers: Ross Coulter, Antony Hamilton,
Simon Obarzanek, Byron Perry

Music: Duplo Remote

Producer: Michaela Coventry

Duration 60 minutes

Untrained and Lucy Guerin Inc are supported by Arts Victoria, the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australia International Cultural Council, an initiative of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade,
Arts House , City of Melbourne, and the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust. Untrained was developed in the CultureLAB.