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NEWRETRO
Presented by Lucy Guerin Inc and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)
“NEWRETRO” is an epic new performance installation by leading Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin, celebrating Melbourne’s award-winning dance company Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI).
A large-scale assemblage of ideas, structures, and excerpts of Guerin’s choreography from LGI’s past productions is reconfigured to create a new long-form work inhabiting the iconic galleries at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).
Involving many of Melbourne’s most exceptional dancers, some who are original cast members and some who are new to the work, it addresses memory, ephemeral lineages and the dancer’s embodied knowledge. The ACCA galleries will frame the performers in a singular relationship to architecture and the spectator, to create an immersive experience both intimate and spectacular.
While reflective in its concept, “NEWRETRO” defies description as a retrospective, bringing past ideas and different generations into a new relationship to the present moment.
Lucy Guerin is one of Australia’s foremost choreographers and “NEWRETRO” is an exhilarating celebration of the dancers, the artform and a significant body of work.
Please note: audience members are free to roam and may come and go during the performance.
Credits
Choreographer and Director: Lucy Guerin
Dancers: Alice Dixon, Amber McCartney, Antony Hamilton, Benjamin Hancock, Caitlin Mewett, Claire Leske, Cora Hughes, Deanne Butterworth, Geoffrey Watson, Georgia Rudd, Harrison Ritchie-Jones, Lee Serle, Lilian Steiner, Melanie Lane, Michelle Heaven, Ngioka Bunda-Heath, Raina Peterson, Rebecca Jensen, Samantha Hines, Stephanie Halyburton, Tra Mi Dinh
Lighting Designer: Paul Lim
Sound Designer and Composer: Jethro Woodward
Costume Designer: Kate Davis
Curator, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art: Elyse Goldfinch
Rehearsal Director: Rachel Coulson
Production Manager: Genevieve Cizevskis
Stage Manager: Zsuzsa Gaynor Mihaly
Producer: Estelle Conley
Executive Producer: Brendan O’Connell
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Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI) is an Australian dance company established in Melbourne in 2002 to create and tour new dance works. The company has been based at its own venue, WXYZ Studios in North Melbourne, since 2018. Renowned for the skill and originality of its small group of performers, LGI is dedicated to challenging and extending the art of contemporary dance, which is realised through the creation of new dance works which regularly tour nationally and internationally. Over the last 21 years, LGI has evolved from a structure that enables Guerin’s choreographic projects, to an organisation that also supports the development of independent dance artists in Melbourne. Through a program of residencies, classes, workshops, presentations, and mentoring opportunities, it is responsive to the shifting ideas and contexts generated by dance and choreography in the world today.
Partners
A Lucy Guerin Inc production, presented in partnership with the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). Lucy Guerin Inc is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts and funding advisory body, by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and by the City of Melbourne.