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Love Me
Lucy Guerin Inc
25 – 28 July 2007

“psychologically dangerous yet lyrical� The Australian

Choreographed by Lucy Guerin and featuring Kirsty McCracken, Byron Perry, Kyle Kremerskothen and Stephanie Lake. Graphic Designer Michaela French, Visual Artist David Rosetzky, Music by Paul Healy, Franc Tetaz & Darrin Verhagen.

Showcasing three self contained dance works, Love Me explores human relationships in projected environments. Love Me seamlessly integrates the work of some of Australia’s best dancers with motion graphics, and a soundtrack of sparse intensity and lush beats.

The relationship between body and screen is explored in Reservoir of Giving as a woman dances under the oblivious gaze of a projected lover, while visual artist David Rosetzky coolly integrates his take on contemporary consumer culture by placing the dancers straight into a lifestyle magazine. In Melt the audience can feel the rise in temperature from freezing to boiling as each degree is explored in this female duet. Finally in On, light and projection are used to illuminate and conceal the interlacing of two bodies moving through pockets of light where motion graphics designer Michaela French seamlessly frames the performers in rhythmic images of textural light.

Lucy Guerin graduated from Adelaide’s Centre for Performing Arts in 1982. Having danced in New York for seven years, she is now based in Melbourne and has been commissioned by Chunky Move, Ros Warby, Woo Co (Denmark), Ricochet (UK) the Berlin Literature Festival, JCDN/Hirano (Japan), Dance Works Rotterdam and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA) among others. In 2002 she formed her company Lucy Guerin Inc to create and present her own dance works.

Guerin’s work is renowned for its high level of detail and for its ability to synthesise the conceptual and physical. Her awards include the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award for achievement by an individual (2000), the Prix d’auteur from the Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Bagnolet in France, a New York Foundation for the Arts Choreographic Fellowship (1994) and several Green Room awards from the Victorian Arts Centre. Lucy’s works have toured throughout Europe, the US and Canada.

Guerin’s most recent work Structure and Sadness, based on the construction and collapse of the Westgate Bridge, was presented at the Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2006 and later at the Sydney Festival in 2007, it was awarded a Green Room Award for Best Choreography.

After critically acclaimed seasons in Ireland and Britain, Love Me begins a tour of Australia at Arts House, Meat Market in July, followed by performances in Hobart, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.
 
Dates: Wednesday 25 July to Saturday 28 July at 7:30pm
Venue: Arts House, Meat Market, 5 Blackwood St, North Melbourne  
Tickets: Full $20, Conc $15
Bookings: easytix.com.au/artshouse or (03) 9639 0096