SEARCHLIGHT

Weather
Lucy Guerin Inc

Venue: Piano Bar
When: Mon 27 Feb 09:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Genre: Dance
Main Audience: All Ages
Producer: Michaela Coventry
No. in touring party: 12

Weather

Weather will be a highly visual and physical dance work that explores our relationship to the environment and larger forces beyond our control.

Weather has a profound affect on human affairs, both for good and ill, causing life and causing death. Weather phenomena are no longer simply uncontrollable and inevitable forces of nature, but something of our own doing; a symptom of our abuse of the planet that we must take drastic steps to reverse. But in spite of the devastation that weather inflicts, most people have experienced a thrill at the sheer force and breadth of a storm, and our powerlessness to escape or divert it.

Choreographer Lucy Guerin will work with designer Robert Cousins (Cloud Street, War of the Roses) to create an atmospheric environment on stage that will impact on the dancers and in turn, be affected by them. The design for the piece will be formed of ephemeral elements including wind, fog and light, which will make visible the invisible forces in the atmosphere. This cause and affect, set up between the moving human body and the unseen forces of weather, will describe all the delicacy and brutality inherent in our conflicted relationship with the earth.

Lucy Guerin Inc

Lucy Guerin Inc is an Australian dance company established in Melbourne in 2002 to create and tour new dance works. Renowned for the skill and originality of its small group of performers, it is a flexible organisation dedicated to challenging and extending the art of contemporary dance. The company is committed to the exploration of everyday events and the redefinition of the formal concerns of dance.

New productions are generated through an experimental approach to creative process and may involve voice, video, sound, text and industrial design as well as Guerin’s lucid physical structures. Crucially, this is always a choreographic exploration, striving for visual, emotional and physical revelations that could not be generated or communicated in any artform other than dance. Lucy Guerin Inc has been a major influence on the growing identity of Australian dance, which stems from the company’s programmatic research into choreographic practice supported through several initiatives.

See www.lucyguerininc.com for further details and artist biographies.

Artistic Director: Lucy Guerin
Executive Producer: Michaela Coventry