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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    Dancing in the Dark [Article]
    Harris, Sarah (2015)
    Preview of the premiere season of Lucy Guerin's Motion Picture, presented as part of Dance Massive at Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall , North Melbourne, 17-22 March 2015. Includes interview with Lucy Guerin.
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    Motion Picture: Choreographer Lucy Guerin dances around film [Article]
    Hawker, Philippa (2015)
    Review of the premiere season of Lucy Guerin's Motion Picture, presented as part of Dance Massive at Arts House North Melbourne Town Hall , North Melbourne, 17-22 March 2015.
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    Lucy Guerin Inc Celebrates 15 Years [Article]
    Australia Council for the Arts (2017)
    Interview with Lucy Guerin produced by the Australian Council, acknowledging Lucy Guerin Inc's 15 years in operation.
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    Awards honour Australian artists [Article]
    Ross, Annabel (2016)
    Article about the 2016 Australia Council Awards.
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    Where the magic happens [Article]
    Levy, Nina (2016)
    Preview of the premiere season of Lucy Guerin's The Dark Chorus at Arts House Meat Market, North Melbourne, 6-12 October 2016. Includes interview with choreographer Lucy Guerin.
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    Evolving Bodies [Article]
    Cawthorne, Zelda (2003)
    Article about Lucy Guerin and her work Plasticine Park, ACMI Screen Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, 11 October 2003. This file also includes a clipping of an article by Clare Barker, Piccinini's Enigmas, on Patricia Piccinini's work for Plasticine Park.
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    Lucy Guerin is a Choreographer [Article]
    Vashti, Lorelai (2011)
    Interview with Lucy Guerin.
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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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    Documents in Australian postmodern dance: two interviews with Lucy Guerin [Article]
    Marshall, Jonathan (2002)
    Interview with choreographer Lucy Guerin.
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    Rare Jocob's Pillow dance films now available online [Article]
    (2011)
    Article about the launch of Jacob's Pillow Interactive, an online video collection that includes clips of Lucy Guerin Inc performances.