Lucy Guerin celebrates 21 years

Lucy Guerin Inc celebrates its 21st anniversary this year. To celebrate this remarkable milestone, the company is presenting a performance installation called NEWRETRO which will look back at Artistic Director Lucy Guerin's body of work.

Drawing on fragments and excerpts from 21 dance works, NEWRETRO will take the form of a captivating three-hour, site-responsive work held in the 21-year-old galleries of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne. 

In keeping with the anniversary theme, the presentation will feature a cast of 21 dancers, some reprising their original roles, and others joining the company for the first time.

NEWRETRO is not being described as just a retrospective, however, but as an occasion which will bring "past ideas and different generations into a new relationship to the present moment – a living archive built from a synthesis of ideas, movement material, and choreographic processes. It is an exhilarating celebration of the dancers, the artform and the company".

"It’s thrilling to see the artistry and focus that this glorious cast brings into one space," Guerin says of the show. "The galleries at ACCA create a new frame for the audience to experience a constantly morphing structure of movement and the vast embodiment of knowledge that is at the core of my choreography."

The dancers performing during the season are 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 and Tra Mi Dinh.

NEWRETRO is being presented from March 25 to April 2 as part of the FRAME dance festival held over March in Melbourne.

Look out for Lucy Guerin's own reminiscences of her 21 years of creations in the April/May/June issue of 'Dance Australia'.