Lucy Guerin Inc.

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The Lucy Guerin Inc. Collection

Lucy Guerin Inc was established in 2002 by choreographer Lucy Guerin AO to develop, create and tour new dance works. Across more than 20 years, the Melbourne-based company has maintained an impressive repertoire of concert-length works, toured extensively in the UK, Europe, Asia and North America and won dozens of awards for its artistic achievements.

The company has also supported the local dance community. It has commissioned new work from emerging and mid-career choreographers, provided residencies and mentorship programmes, hosted development showings and classes and fostered a culture of creative critical dialogue. Many of the country’s best-known choreographers and performance makers have been supported by Lucy Guerin Inc at some point in their career.

Lucy Guerin Inc has a substantial and well-maintained archive of company-related material and material relating to the early career of Lucy Guerin. There are thousands of individual items: everything from photographs, posters, programmes, flyers and tickets to video recordings, technical riders, press clippings and design sketches. It is one of the most substantial dance archives in Australia and a unique research resource.

The LGI Digital Collection

In 2017, Lucy Guerin allowed the Theatre and Dance Platform at the University of Melbourne to create an online open-access digital repository through the University’s Digitised Collections, enabling the preservation and promotion of this fascinating collection. This was the first major dataset acquired by the Theatre and Dance Platform and remains an important test case for the development of institutional repositories for the digital preservation of performing arts collections and the integration of these collections with other performing arts-related research platforms.

The Theatre and Dance Platform continues to accept new material, such as ‘born-digital’ artefacts of film or photographs, from Lucy Guerin Inc, as well as older material that has been newly digitised. Currently, there are more than 60 performance videos, more than 60 rehearsal videos, more than 220 press reviews of performances, more than 120 show programs and more than 100 photographic sets comprising thousands of images.

What does the LGI Digital Collection contain?

Individual assets in the collection are categorised according to the performance or performances to which they relate. To begin exploring the collection, select a work from the list below and click through the link. (The date of the premiere is in brackets.) This will take you to a list of performances of that production. Select a performance and click through the link. This will take you to a brief description of the performance. To browse a range of digital assets associated with the performance, click through the “items” link in the panel on the left. You can also explore the collection by resource type, author (using artists’ names), date and subject using the index in panel on the right.

LUCY GUERIN INC.

Split (2017), Attractor (2017), The Dark Chorus (2016), I'm Trying to Tell You (2015), Macbeth (2015), Microclimate (2015), Motion Picture (2015), Conversation Piece (2012), Weather (2012), Human Interest Story (2011), Untrained (2009), Corridor (2008), Structure and Sadness (2006), Aether (2005), Love Me (2005), Plasticine Park (2003), The Ends of Things (2003), Melt (2002)

LUCY GUERIN EARLY WORKS

25 Songs on 25 Lines (1998), Heavy (1998), Robbery Waitress on Bali (1998), Two Lies (1996), Venus Bay (1996), Practice (1995), Ghost in Bloom (1994), Solemn Pink (1993), Eight solos by Sara Rudner (1992), In Endless Description (1991), Irresistible Divide (1990), Tere O'Connor Works (1990), Dance Works (1988), Dance Exchange (1983-1989) Early Performances and Works (1983-1999)

General Resources

Lucy Guerin General Resources (1979-2018),

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    Dances in Deserts [Rehearsal Video Recording]
    Guerin, Lucy (1995)
    Lucy Guerin and friends on holidays create a series of dances in coastal and desert locations from Broken Hill to Eucla. This video was created between 6 September 1995 and 15 September 1995. In 1996, Guerin premiered Venus Bay, a work inspired by desert and coastal landscapes.
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    Presenting the Performing Arts: Leading artists and companies from Victoria Australia [Flyer]
    Arts Victoria (1997)
    Set of 30 promotional cards produced by Arts Victoria and presented in a cardboard sleeve. The cards include individuals, venues, arts groups, theatre companies, dance companies, orchestra, circus and performance companies. The Lucy Guerin promotional card features an image from Robbery Waitress on Bail.
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    Lucy Guerin portrait [Photograph]
    Hitzenberger, Anja (1994)
    Portrait photograph of Lucy Guerin taken by Anja Hitzenberger from a publicity shoot for Incarnadine (1994).
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    People and Buildings [Article]
    McDonald, Andrew (1990)
    Photographic essay by photographer Andrew McDonald. Article includes portrait of Lucy Guerin. "Andrew McDonald, an Australian Photographer, currently living and working in New York, was commissioned by Culture Magazine to produce a series of photographs of New York artists seen through their favorite building. We also requested Andrew to ask each of his subjects why they chose the building they did. The following photograph and text is the result of the commission".
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    Movement Research [Programme]
    Movement Research (1990)
    Show programme for Movement Research, Ethnic Folk Arts Center, New York, 17 March 1990.
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    Made to Move Participating Presenters 1998 [Document]
    Guerin, Lucy (1998)
    Lists of participating presenters at Made to Move 1998.
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    Lucy Guerin Biography [Document]
    Guerin, Lucy (1996)
    Bound biographical summary of Lucy Guerin. Content includes short biography, list for works by Guerin in repertory, schedule for 1996-7 and critics comments.
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    Lucy Guerin Professional Highlights [Scrapbook]
    Guerin, Lucy (1992)
    A book containing a collection of photos and magazine/newspaper clippings from Lucy Guerin's early career. Items include: letters of recommendation from Russell Dumas and Lisa Kraus; publicity images for the 16mm film Hector and the Harpy; Dancework's Fancy Dancing and IDA's Reeling; production images for the excerpt of Sweet Dreams performed at Darling Harbour; a short article on Guerin's fashion sense; print reviews of Dance Exchange's Double Exposure, Dancing Sara's Phrases, Circular Quay, Cote Coeur/Cote Jardin, Occasional Dances; print reviews of DanceWorks's Fancy Dancing; print reviews of Sara Rudner's Eight Solos; and print reviews of Guerin's own Sweet Dreams, In Endless Description and Out of the Past. Mentions of Guerin in the reviews are highlighted in pink.
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    Interview with Lucy Guerin (Australia/United States) [Interview]
    Ibanez-Lago, Eva (1994)
    An interview between Eva Ibanez-Lago and Lucy Guerin.
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    All the Better to Eat You [Photograph]
    Hooper, Jim (1999)
    Production image of dancer Lucy Guerin in Gideon Obarzanek's All the Better to Eat You, part of Chunky Move's Body Parts, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, 31 August 1999.