Presented with Arts House
★★★★
Masterfully performed.
— THE AGE
★★★★
Showcases everything
that’s exciting about
dance as an art form.
— THE MUSIC
Lucy Guerin Inc
Split
Meat Market
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OCT
7 8
14 15
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2
9
16
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3
10
17
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4
11
18
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5
12
19
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6
13
20
Wed—Sat 7pm
Sat also 2pm
Sun 5.30pm
50 mins no interval
Tickets $39
Eligible for
Transaction fees may apply
festival.melbourne
Arts House 03 9322 3720
Two dancers occupy the same space; one
is naked, one is clothed. As room to move
grows smaller and smaller, the challenge
of sharing a shrinking world becomes ever
more desperate.
Lucy Guerin’s Split is both simple in conceit
and brilliant in execution. The Melbourne-
based choreographer plays with time
and space to hypnotic effect, spinning
from the movements of the two dancers
a power struggle of desires and demands.
Set to a driving soundtrack by electronic
composer Scanner and performed by two
of the most virtuosic dancers working
in Australia today, this is a gripping
performance with deep resonances for a
world in an ever-more precarious state.
A duet that verges on thriller territory,
Split is the work of a modern master at
the height of her powers.
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