LUCY GUERIN
CHOREOGRAPHER & DIRECTOR
Born in Adelaide, Lucy graduated from the
Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 before
joining the companies of Russell Dumas (Dance
Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks).
She moved to New York in 1989 for seven years
where she danced with Tere O’Connor Dance,
the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner,
and began to produce her first choreographic
works. In 2002 she established Lucy Guerin
Inc in Melbourne to support the development,
creation and touring of new works with a focus
on challenging and extending the concepts and
practice of contemporary dance.
Major Lucy Guerin Inc works include Structure
and Sadness (2006), Corridor (2008), Untrained
(2009), Human Interest Story (2010), Conversation
Piece (2012), Weather (2012), Motion Picture
(2015) and The Dark Chorus (2016).
Lucy has toured her work extensively in Europe,
Asia and North America as well as to most of
Australia’s major festivals and venues. She has
been commissioned by Chunky Move, Mikhail
Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA),
Lyon Opera Ballet (France), and Rambert (UK)
among many others. Her awards include the
Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, a New
York Dance and Performance Award (a ‘Bessie’),
numerous Green Room Awards, a Helpmann
Award and two Australian Dance Awards. In
2016 she was awarded the Australia Council
Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dance.