{{short description|Australian dancer and choreographer (born 1961)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox artist | bgcolour = | name = Lucy Guerin | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100|AO}} | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1961 | birth_place = Adelaide, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | field = Dance and choreography | training = | movement = Modern dance | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = | elected = | website = }}
'''Lucy Mary Guerin''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} (born 1961) is an Australian dancer and choreographer. Her work is described as post-modern.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Australasian drama studies|issue=41|year=2002}}</ref>
==Life and career== Lucy Guerin was born in Adelaide, Australia, and began her dance education at local dance schools. She graduated from Adelaide's Center for Performing Arts in 1982 and found employment in Sydney with Russell Dumas' Dance Exchange in 1983. In 1988 she took a position in Melbourne with Nanette Hassall's Dance Works company.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lucyguerininc.com/about/Artistic_Director|title=Artistic Director|accessdate=14 January 2012}}</ref>
In 1989 Guerin relocated to New York City where she danced until 1996 with companies and choreographers including Tere O'Connor, Sara Rudner and Bebe Miller, and also began working as a choreographer. She presented ''Solemn Pink'' and ''Incarnadine'' (1996) at the Rencontres choreographiques internationales de Bagnolet in France, winning the Prix d'auteur. She toured Europe from 1997–98, and received a Bessie Award in 1996 for her ''Two Lies''. In 1996 Guerin returned to Australia, and in 2002 she established the Australian dance company Lucy Guerin Inc.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.australiadancing.org/subjects/2381.html|title=Lucy Guerin (1961-)|accessdate=14 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031126141202/http://www.australiadancing.org/subjects/2381.html|archive-date=26 November 2003|url-status=usurped}}</ref> In New York her work has been presented at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
==Honors and awards== *Prix d'auteur, 1996 *Bessie Award, 1996 *Green Room Awards *Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, 2000 *Helpmann Award for Best Dance Work, 2006
Guerin was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2020 Australia Day Honours for "distinguished service to contemporary dance as a choreographer, and as a mentor and advocate for emerging artists and new works."<ref name="AO 2020">{{cite news |title=Queen's Birthday 2020 Honours: The full list of this year's winners |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/queen-s-birthday-2020-honours-the-full-list-of-this-year-s-winners-20200607-p550cd.html |accessdate=7 June 2020 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=Nine Entertainment Co |date=8 June 2020}}</ref>
==Works== Selected works include: *''Sweet Dreams'' (1989) *''In Endless Description'' (1991) with Sarah Perron *''Ghost in Bloom'' (1994) *''Venus Bay'' (1996) *''Remote'' (1997) *''Robbery Waitress on Bail'' (1997) *''Heavy'' (1998) *''Zero'' (1999) *''Soft Centre'' (1999) *''The Ends of Things'' (2000) *''Living with Surfaces'' (2001) *''Melt'' (2002) *''Tell Me'' (2003) with Michael Lenz *''Tense Dave'' (2003) with Gideon Obarzanek and Michael Kantor *''Plasticine Park'' (2003) with Patricia Piccinini *''The Firebird'' 2003 *''Baroque Masterworks for the Australian Opera'' (2004) *'' Structure and Sadness'' (2006) *''Corridor'' (2008) *''Untrained'' (2009) *''Human Interest Story'' (2010) *''Conversation Piece'' (2012) *''Weather'' (2012) *''Microclimate'' (2015) *''Motion Picture'' (2015) *''The Dark Chorus'' (2016) *''Attractor'' (2017) *''Split'' (2017) *''Make Your Own World (2019)''<ref name="Limelight review of Make your own world">{{cite web |last1=Ryan |first1=Rhys |title=Make Your Own World (Lucy Guerin Inc, Dance Massive) An intricately composed dance work featuring an intelligent cast. |url=https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/reviews/make-your-own-world-lucy-guerin-inc-dance-massive/ |website=limelightmagazine.com.au |access-date=7 April 2021 |date=13 March 2019}}</ref> *''Metal'' (2020)<ref name="Dance Writer review of Metal">{{cite web |title='Metal': Lucy Guerin and Indonesia's Ensemble Tikoro |url=https://www.dancewriter.com.au/reviews/metal-lucy-guerin-ensemble-tikoro/ |website=Dance Writer |access-date=7 April 2021}}</ref><ref name="Review of Metal in Dance Informa">{{cite journal |last1=Ransom |first1=Paul |title=Lucy Guerin and Robi Rusdiana's 'Metal': Do opposites attract? |journal=Dance Informa |date=24 February 2020 |volume=Australian Edition |issue=Australian Dance Reviews |url=https://dancemagazine.com.au/2020/02/lucy-guerin-and-robi-rusdianas-metal-do-opposites-attract/ |access-date=7 April 2021}}</ref> *''Pendulum'' (2021) with Matthias Schack-Arnott<ref name="i428">{{cite web | title=PENDULUM with Matthias Schack-Arnott | website=Lucy Guerin Inc | url=https://lucyguerininc.com/works/pendulum#performances | access-date=2024-06-19}}</ref> (part of the 2021 RISING: festival in Melbourne)<ref name="h003">{{cite web | title=RISING: PENDULUM | website=RISING | date=2021-08-31 | url=https://2021.rising.melbourne/festival-program/pendulum | access-date=2024-06-19}}</ref> *''New Retro'' (2023)<ref name="o195">{{cite web | title=NEWRETRO | website=Lucy Guerin Inc | date=2023-04-08 | url=https://lucyguerininc.com/works/newretro | access-date=2024-06-19}}</ref> *''One Single Action: In An Ocean Of Everything'' (2024)<ref name="z070">{{cite web | title=One Single Action | website=Lucy Guerin Inc | url=https://lucyguerininc.com/works/one-single-action | access-date=2024-06-19}}</ref>(part of the 2024 RISING: festival in Melbourne)<ref name="n688">{{cite web | title=ONE SINGLE ACTION | website=RISING: Melbourne 01 | date=2024-06-16 | url=https://2024.rising.melbourne/program/one-single-action | access-date=2024-06-19}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20111108225501/http://www.lucyguerin.com/ Official site] * [https://archive.today/20130415035844/http://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/dance/lucy-guerin-inc?ref=artist&refcar=/artist/g-h Archival footage of Lucy Guerin Inc. performing ''Structure and Sadness'' in 2010 at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAnc55HFp2k Lucy Guerin Inc performs ''Aether #2''] * {{Australian Women and Leadership|WLE0531b|Guerin, Lucy (1961–)}}
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