A new residency program for Senior First Nations dance artists has been announced by Lucy Guerin Inc and BlakDance, with Narangga and...
Sitting in the theatre in late February, watching Lucy Guerin’s Metal, with its metaphors of strength, fluidity and animal imperative, we knew it...
Arts Centre, Melbourne. 24 February 2020. It does not take long for the boundaries to be tested. Indeed, at times Metal pushes into terrain that...
Ensemble Tikoro has a motto: And contemporary music for all. Metalheads will recognise this as a paraphrasing of …And Justice For All, the title...
“In the same space, there are two things working,” says Chinese dance star Hu Shenyuan. We are in a rehearsal break, sitting...
This year’s Melbourne International Arts Festival has already made news. Not only is it Jonathan Holloway’s final year as Artistic Director, but...
It seems strange to be writing an article about contemporary dancers and choreographers carrying a legacy from the pioneers of the artform...
Arts House, Melbourne. 12 March 2019. Dance Massive 2019’s first night saw the gallery near capacity as one of Australia’s favourite contemporary...
Just a couple months in, 2019 has already proven to be a busy and creative year for Australia’s legion of dancers, dance...
Dancers can become memorable through a number of ways: Sometimes they are lionised for their youthful athleticism, sometimes for their technical virtuosity,...
On 1 November, Lucy Guerin Inc moved into its new home, WXYZ Studios, in north Melbourne. It’s not just a new home...
Dance Informa had the opportunity to chat with freelance dancer/choreographer Lilian Steiner, fresh off the back of the Sydney leg of the...
Stephanie Lake has been described as “one of the most important voices in contemporary choreography”, with “gutsy physicality and kooky poetics”. With...
Sydney Opera House, Sydney. 8 August 2018. The audience are seated in the ‘Studio’ at the Sydney Opera House, where graduated seating...
Lucy Guerin’s work has been described as “poignant” and “provocative”, “contemporary dance that reaches back to the roots of ancient theatre”. Dance Informa...
In this second instalment of our Choreography Advice Series (you can find our first interview with Sydney Dance Company’s Rafael Bonachela here),...
The Australian Dance Awards were a star-studded night of all that’s great about Australian dance -creativity, diversity and collaboration. Held at the...
Winners of the 2017 Australian Dance Awards were announced last night, Sunday 24 September, at the Arts Centre Melbourne during a glittering...
It’s not often that we get to legitimately quote ourselves in the articles we pen, but this is one such instance because,...
Arts House, Melbourne. 17 March 2017. Lucy Guerin loves to deconstruct cultural phenomena in her work. In Spilt, presented as part of...
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne. February 26, 2017. The tagline proclaims: “ecstatic music/dance ritual for non-believers”. For once, the marketing mavens may have...
It is 1950. A man turns up to report a murder. His own. By slow poison. From the classic American film noir...