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Lucy Guerin Inc acknowledges and pays our respects to the traditional custodians, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations, on whose unceded land we live and create.
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One Single Action
2024
ONE SINGLE ACTION IN AN OCEAN OF EVERYTHING A new dance work from internationally acclaimed choreographer Lucy Guerin. Two dancers traverse…
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Riot/Soccer/Rock/Dogs
2023
Riot/Soccer/Rock/Dogs An Archival Collision Riot/Soccer/Rock/Dogs reconstructs fragments from Lucy Guerin’s incredible back-catalogue, c…
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NEWRETRO DUETS
2023
Five captivating duets from the archive of Lucy Guerin Inc, spanning 30 years. Experience five duets from the archive of the leading…
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I'm in a Forest (short film)
2023
I’m in a Forest tracks 21 dancers as they navigate the space and interactions of a highly physical and demanding continuum of movement. P…
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How To Be Us
2022
How to Be Us is a duet for two women that integrates improvised movement devised by each dancer with strict patterns and formal structures…
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PENDULUM
2021
PENDULUM is an expansive performance installation created by percussive artist Matthias Schack-Arnott and choreographer Lucy Guerin.…
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Split
2017
Revelling in Lucy Guerin’s sharp, elegant choreographic investigations, Split (2017) reflects the dilemmas of negotiating with oneself and o…
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In-development
The Forest – In Development
2024
Lucy Guerin Inc is currently developing an ambitious new dance work titled The Forest, reflecting the many identities that forests hold in…
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Previous LGI Works
NEWRETRO
2023
21 works / 21 dancers / 21 years in the making Drawing on 21 existing dance works from the past 21 years, NEWRETRO is a major performance…
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Flux Job
2022
Against the backdrop of a devastating event, four dancers walk the line between individual and shared experience. Flux Job is the new work…
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Metal
2020
Five dancers and eight metal-heads share the stage in this meeting of cultures, art forms, languages and belief systems. Melbourne-based…
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Make Your Own World
2019
Make Your Own World summons images of societies, communities and personal relationships in flux. It layers the individual, spontaneous…
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Attractor
2017
An ecstatic dance ritual unfolds on the stage, drawing audience and performers together into a unique trance-noise odyssey. Attractor…
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The Dark Chorus
2016
The Dark Chorus recalls the roots of ancient theatre where the chorus bears witness to the drama and tragedy of humanity. Through the…
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Motion Picture
2015
Motion Picture pays homage to the moving image while rebelling against it through the immediacy of live performance. The film—1950 film n…
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Microclimate
2015
Based on the full-length dance work Weather created by Lucy Guerin in 2012—which looks at our relationship to the elements—Microclimate is an …
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Weather
2012
An atmospheric dance work that embodies the breathtaking dynamics of the elements, Weather is an immersive experience inspired by the…
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Conversation Piece
2012
Conversation Piece brings together three actors and three dancers in a unique encounter between two performing art forms. The performers e…
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Human Interest Story
2010
Using image, sound, language and movement, Human Interest Story explores the affects of the news cycle on our psyche and questions our …
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Untrained
2009
Four men take to the stage in Untrained. Two are highly skilled, experienced dancers and two have no movement training at all. All are …
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Corridor
2008
Corridor is a 55-minute dance theatre work that explores, in the words of Lucy Guerin, “how we exist in the public arena and in those t…
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Structure and Sadness
2006
The collapse of the West Gate Bridge in 1970 is a tragic event in Australia’s history that is etched in Melbourne’s public psyche. Not only did…
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Love Me
2005
Love Me is a program of three works which explore relationships in projected environments: Reservoir of Giving I and II / On / Melt…
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Aether
2005
Choreographer Lucy Guerin and motion graphic designer Michaela French were looking out a window onto Melbourne’s cityscape when the o…
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Plasticine Park
2003
Plasticine Park was a performed exhibition of eight solos that deal with changes in our environment, our relationships, our bodies and our…
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Melt
2002
Melt is a performance in two parts, examining the temperature trajectory from freezing to boiling. The first part is a duet with two…
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Other Works by Lucy Guerin
Splinter Group – VCA Dance Commission
2022
An ensemble work concerned with ideas of the group, of social movements, and the role of the individual. Made on and with VCA’s Bachelor o…
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How Can We Live Together? – Groupe Grenade Commission
2022
Lucy Guerin was commissioned by Josette Baïz to create a new work on Groupe Grenade, a large ensemble of young dancers in Aix-en-Provence, …
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The Clock: Timepiece
2019
A unique physical response to Christian Marclay’s The Clock, choreographed by Lucy Guerin and commissioned by ACMI, Melbourne. Featuring d…
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pointNONpoint - Queensland Ballet Commission
2019
pointNONpoint begins with one dancer alone on stage and expands incrementally to an interconnected community of twenty-three people. From…
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Tomorrow - Rambert Commission
2015
Tomorrow inhabits the dark and dangerous world of Macbeth. Building on the recent landmark production of the play, co-directed by Carrie…
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Macbeth - UK co-production
2015
Following their acclaimed collaboration on Medea at the National Theatre, Carrie Cracknell and Lucy Guerin have together created a new…
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I'm Trying to Tell You
2015
Does the sense of things survive the transition from one place to another? In spite of globalisation, there are intriguing gaps between…
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Black Box - Lyon Opera Ballet Commission
2013
Ballet de l’Opera de Lyon commissioned Lucy Guerin to create a new dance work for the company. It premiered alongside new works c…
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Tense Dave - Chunky Move Commission
2003
Tense Dave was a collaboration between Lucy Guerin, Gideon Obarzanek and Michael Kantor. Premiered at Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, October 2…
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Living with Surfaces - Ros Warby Commission
2001
Living with Surfaces is a short solo about getting comfortable in a limited concrete world. Where to place oneself between wall, floor,…
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The Ends of Things
2000
In 2000, Lucy Guerin made her debut at the Melbourne Festival with The Ends of Things. This work centres around the life of an older man…
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Zero - Chunky Move Commission
1999
Zero is a contemporary exploration in movement using the manipulation of self and others to present selected perspectives. This uneasy work…
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Soft Center - Yale Repertory Theatre Commission
1999
Soft Center rejects the sentimental cliches that often describe male/female relationships in dance. But embedded in the abstract…
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Heavy
1998
Heavy was based on the descent into the sleep cycle, beginning with sleep stages 1 – 4 and moving into REM or the dreaming stage. This wo…
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Robbery Waitress on Bail
1997
Robbery Waitress on Bail draws its inspiration from the pages of Melbourne’s tabloids. Its starting point is the report of a waitress who a…
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Two Lies
1996
Two Lies examines the paradox of memory and how experiences are stored and revised by subsequent events. The work explores concepts of…
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Incarnadine
1994
Incarnadine explores the meeting of two contrasting elements and their attempts to absorb or repel each other. A rigorous unison duet and…
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Solemn Pink
1993
Solemn Pink was first performed at the Judson Church, New York, as part of the Movement Research program in March 1993, and was supported…
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Irresistible Divide
1990
While in New York City in 1990, Lucy Guerin developed and performed her first choreographed solo work, Irresistible Divide, for Fielday at…
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Sweet Dreams
1989
Sweet Dreams was first performed in 1989, at the Athenaeum II, Melbourne, as part of Reeling – an evening of short works by Independent D…
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Pieces
PIECES 2024
2024
Witness the future of dance in a thrilling triple bill of innovative contemporary works. Lucy Guerin Inc’s long-running commissioning p…
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PIECES 2023
2023
LUKE GEORGE / AMRITA HEPI / HARRISON RITCHIE-JONES PIECES is Lucy Guerin Inc’s annual commissioning program showcasing the work of e…
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PIECES 2022
2022
MELANIE LANE / AMBER MCCARTNEY / RACHAEL WISBY PIECES is an annual artist development program offering choreographers the opportunity to…
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PIECES 2021
2021
MICHELLE HEAVEN / LEE SERLE / ANDREW TRELOAR & HARRISON HALL PIECES is an annual artist development program offering choreographers the…
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PIECES 2019
2019
SARAH AIKEN / SIOBHAN MCKENNA / GEOFFREY WATSON Presented by Lucy Guerin Inc and The Substation, PIECES showcases bold new contemporary…
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Pieces for Small Spaces 2017
2017
Nana Biluš Abaffy | Amrita Hepi | Rheannan Port | Mariaa Randall | Yumi Umiumare 5 choreographers, 5 new short dance works, 5 days of pe…
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Pieces for Small Spaces 2016
2016
Lz Dunn | Angela Goh | Leah Landau | Chad McLachlan | Sandra Parker 5 choreographers, 5 new short dance works, 5 days of performances:…
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Pieces for Small Spaces 2015
2015
James Batchelor | Tessa Broadby | Amber McCartney | Emily Robinson | Carly Sheppard 5 choreographers, 5 new short dance works, 5 days of…
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Pieces for Small Spaces 2014
2014
Alice Dixon | Melissa Jones | Melanie Lane | Prue Lang | Ashley Mclellan 5 choreographers, 5 new short dance works, 5 days of performances:…
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Pieces for Small Spaces 2013
2013
Luke George | Michaela Pegum | Rebecca Hilton | Sarah Aiken | Timothy Walsh 5 choreographers, 5 new short dance works, 5 days of…
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Pieces for Small Spaces 2012
2012
Ashley Dyer | Shian Law | Janine Proost | Lilian Steiner | James Welsby 5 choreographers, 5 new short dance works, 5 days of performances: …
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Pieces for Small Spaces 2011
2011
Natalie Abbott | Holly Durant | Atlanta Eke | Rebecca Jensen | Rennie McDougall 5 choreographers, 5 new short dance works, 5 days of…
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Pieces for Small Spaces 2010
2010
Amber Haines | Deanne Butterworth | Matthew Day | Tim Darbyshire |Frankie Snowdon 5 choreographers, 5 new short dance works, 5 days of…
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Pieces for Small Spaces 2009
2009
Fiona Bryant | Benjamin Hancock | Alisdair Macindoe | Luke Smiles | Brooke Stamp 5 choreographers, 5 new short dance works, 5 days of…
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Pieces for Small Spaces 2008
2008
Kristy Ayre with Jo Lloyd & Nick Roux | Sara Black | Carlee Mellow | Harriet Ritchie | Gerard Van Dyck 5 choreographers, 5 new short…
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Pieces for Small Spaces 2007
2007
Amber Haines & Lily Paskas | Stephanie Lake | Rob McCredie | Rogue & Antony Hamilton | Lee Serle 5 choreographers, 5 new short…
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Pieces for Small Spaces 2006
2006
Helen Herbertson | Michelle Heaven | Rebecca Hilton | Shelley Lasica | Trevor Patrick 5 choreographers, 5 new short dance works, 5 days of…
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Pieces for Small Spaces 2005
2005
Adam Wheeler | Antony Hamilton | Byron Perry | Jo Lloyd | Kyle Kremerskothen | Shannon Bott The inaugural season of Lucy Guerin Inc’s…
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Supported by LGI
Memories from Suspended Places
2023
Memories from Suspended Places delves into the profound language of the body, unravelling the threads that bind us and bridging the gap…
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