Three workshops presented by Lucy Guerin Inc – free of charge

February/March 2009
Applications open – Deadline: 5pm Monday 15th December 2008

Hilton, Guerin & Warby - Two Lies, New York City, 1997

Hilton, Guerin & Warby - Two Lies, New York City, 1997

Ros Warby, Rebecca Hilton and Lucy Guerin will each give workshops of one week to share their process and current creative approaches to movement, with professional dancers in the local community. These dance artists have worked together as well as with other Australian and international choreographers and have built unique reputations on their choreographic and dancing expertise, and their possession of a rich store of information about physical movement and structures.

Warby, Hilton and Guerin have all danced with Russell Dumas, Danceworks and Lucy Guerin Inc. They have also had different experiences with a range of choreographers and have arrived at individual places in their careers. It is hoped that many participants in these workshops can attend all three and therefore gain and understanding of how these artist have developed different yet connected practices from similar backgrounds.

Workshop #1 – Ros Warby
2 – 6 February 2009 12.30pm to 4:30pm
Warby’s teaching focuses on the development of the dancer’s performance practice. She encourages the students to eliminate attachment to prescribed techniques or choreographic approaches and invites the body to undo any pre-conceived notions of what dance is, thereby creating a chance for the dancer to express a complex and indefinable range of experience through the humour, intelligence and emotional engagement of the dancing body. Creating a solo adaptation from one of her choreographies she would use this form to introduce the dancers to these ideas.

Workshop #2 - Rebecca Hilton
2 – 6 March 2009 1pm to 5pm
Extraordinary ordinary
Hilton’s present interest is in making art that reflects contemporary community/society/humanity. She is looking to develop a movement vocabulary that directly reflects that idea rather than abstracting it, but without being mimetic or imitative. In the context of this workshop, participants will research physical habit and nuance in a variety of ways. They will secretly stalk people in public spaces, gather images from visual art and media and microscopically examine their friends and family in private to assemble material that is both phenomenally complex and infinitely possible. They will work on layering and juxtaposing streams of postural/gestural information and on developing a vocabulary that is both accessible and virtuosic, familiar and strange.

Workshop #3 - Lucy Guerin
23 – 27 March 2009 1pm to 5pm
In her workshops, Guerin continues with current concepts that she is exploring in her dance making, inviting the participants to take part in her creative process. This workshop will focus on the connection between language and dance which Guerin has begun to examine in recent works. It will generate a vocabulary that utilises, but is not aesthetically defined by each person’s technical training and will delve into the body’s infinite capacity for spontaneous originality.

Discussion
Friday 27 March 2009 6pm – 7.30pm
These workshops will culminate in a discussion between Hilton, Guerin and Warby led by a moderator. This discussion will explore both the individual concerns and pathways of each artist and their perspectives on current dance practice. It is intended that it will be attended by all workshop participants but will also be open to other members of the dance community.

For an application form email – info@lucyguerin.com
Deadline: 5pm Monday 15th December 2008