Dancing into the gallery: Lucy Guerin Inc turns 21

LGI’s NEWRETRO remixes 21 years of choreographic practice.

22 Mar 2023 13:26

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Lucy Guerin Inc’s ‘NEWRETRO’ at ACCA. Photo: Gregory Lorenzutti.

Choreographer Lucy Guerin has decided on a unique way to celebrate the 21^st anniversary of her contemporary dance company, Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI).

‘I had this idea that I wanted to take 21 works [from across 21 years] and just select excerpts and fragments of material from them and then reassemble them into a new work,’ Guerin explains.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts