Following a critically acclaimed premiere season at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in 2023, Lucy Guerin Inc’s NEWRETRO will be reinvented for Melbourne Art Fair in 2024 with NEWRETRO REDUX.
This thrilling site-responsive performance installation reconstructs fragments from Lucy Guerin’s incredible back-catalogue, condensing choreography from different time periods into the same temporal space creating a living archive of new, corporeal gestures.
Featuring a cast of 10 exceptional Melbourne dancers, NEWRETRO REDUX will unfold over one-hour, inviting audiences to witness the performance from all sides in an experience at once intimate and spectacular.
A moving celebration of Lucy Guerin the artist, a testimony to her decades-long investment in dancers and dancing and the field of artistic creation. – Philipa Rothfield, The Saturday Paper
Audience members are free to roam and may enter and leave the performance space at any time within the one-hour duration of the performance.
About Lucy Guerin Inc
Established in Melbourne in 2002 by Artistic Director Lucy Guerin, Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI) is an Australian dance company dedicated to challenging and extending the art of contemporary dance.
Melbourne Art Foundation thanks its patrons for generously donating to support this commission:
Peter Jopling AM KC
Michaela and Rob Webb
Maree and Andrew Di Pasquale
Rose Hiscock and Virginia Lovett
Justin Homer
This presentation would not have been possible without the generous support of the late Chloe Munro AO and Lucy Guerin Inc’s Commissioning Circle.
Creative Team
Choreographer: Lucy Guerin
Dancers: Alice Dixon, Amber McCartney, Benjamin Hancock, Caitlin Mewett, Claire Leske, Deanne Butterworth, Geoffrey Watson, Georgia Rudd, Michelle Heaven, Tra Mi Dinh
Composer & Sound Designer: Jethro Woodward
Lighting Designer: Paul Lim
Costume Designer: Kate Davis
Producer: Estelle Conley
Executive Producer: Brendan O’Connell
This is a free event and does not require a ticket. Register your attendance below to receive a reminder the day before.
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