pieces for small spaces 2016 small. sustainable. connected.
Lucy Guerin Inc Presents
Pieces for Small Spaces
small. sustainable. connected 14 - 18 December 2016 Lucy Guerin Inc Studio
28 Batman Street, West Melbourne
#P4SS2016
Note from Lucy Guerin - Artistic Director & Co-Curator Welcome to Pieces for Small Spaces 2016! It has been such a pleasure to work with Jo Lloyd, our Resident Director this year on the curation of this season. As in past years, the 5 artists have been invited to create a 10 minute work for the LGI studio which extends their approach to dance-making. But this year is slightly different. Included in this challenge is an invitation to the artists to consider the impact on the environment when creating their works. Matt Wicking, our sustainability expert, has consulted with the group and with each artist individually about how they could realise their ideas in the most sustainable way. Our future as art makers must intrinsically address climate change and the environment; it must be embedded in our thinking. It may seem a subtle shift, as Pieces has always been about using resources sparingly, but is crucial to the goals of our Company and the people we work with. Finally, a huge congratulations to these incredible artists for their inspiring works. We would like to say a huge thank you to Claire Bradley Duke, who has produced this season with the expert guidance of our Executive Producer Annette Vieusseux. Jo Lloyd who is our Resident Director this year has mentored the five artists which has been appreciated by us all. Thanks to our technical team Sarah Grey and Michelle Thorne and to Matt Wicking. Thanks to the Angior Family Foundation for their generous funding since 2008 and to The Besen Family Foundation who supported this special sustainable edition of Pieces for Small Spaces - both have been crucial to the ongoing success of the project. Also, The Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria and the City of Melbourne for their ongoing support of Lucy Guerin Inc. And to the Board of Lucy Guerin Inc for their belief in our work.
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CHOREOGRAPHERS: Lz Dunn | Angela Goh | Leah Landau | Chad McLachlan | Sandra Parker Co-curators: Lucy Guerin and Jo Lloyd Lighting Designer: Michelle Thorne Stage Manager: Sarah Grey Production Consultant: Emily O’Brien Greenie-in-Residence: Matt Wicking Producer: Claire Bradley Duke Intern: Inga Muribø Duration: Approx 60 mins (no interval) Auslan interpretation on Friday night’s performance provided by Auslan Stage Left. Special thanks to: Alexandra Macalister-Bills, Emily O’Brien, James Lipari, Sarah Grey, Michelle Thorne, Gus Kemp, Gregory Lorenzutti and all at the Angior Family Foundation and Besen Family Foundation. To our volunteers - Emma, Genna, Rachel, Caitlin, Ellen, Tom, Charlie, Jaala, Ben, Jai, Janine and Rosie.
HUMAN VERSION
Choreography: Sandra Parker Sound: David Franzke Costume: Helene Froisland Dancers: Isabelle Beauverd, Arabella Frahn-Starke, Kasey Lack
----For Pieces for Small Spaces 2016, I asked what might happen to the body and movement in the face of a radical scarcity of energy and resources. Will our inability to reduce consumption and our impact on the environment turn back upon our own human capacities, to the point that our expressive potential and movement functions are rationalised. Thank you: To Lucy Guerin Inc: Lucy, Annette, Claire, Jo Lloyd; and to David Franzke for jumping in; to Helene, Kasey, Arabella and Isabelle. Big thanks.
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Choreography: Lz Dunn Performer/Sound Design: Lz Dunn
Me the musical
----Towards transparency. • Speakers. Already had them. Rejects from another current project. Poor quality. Purchased online. Manufactured in and shipped from China. • Music. Ripped from YouTube. LGI still paid APRA on it. • Plastic cups. Taken from the cupboard in LGI kitchen. Disposable. • Lycra. Tried to find local supplier. Couldn’t. Purchased online from Sydney supplier. They were out of stock so shipped it from USA. • Lights. Asked Michelle to put blue gel on fluro tubes. Other lights that were there. • Transport. Walk. Live nearby. • Body. Me. Solo. Flexible rehearsals. No fee splitting - pay for the baby. • Movement. Unfixed. Past, future, present. Thank you: to Nana Biluš Abaffy, Shian Law, Martin Del Amo, Jo Lloyd and Lucy Guerin Inc.
Romancer Choreography: Leah Landau Performers: Jacqui Aylward and Leah Landau Costume Design: Geoffrey Watson SC - geoffreygeoffreygeoffrey.com This is a trap. ----How to ‘exceed excess’ without producing wasteful by-products. At the start of the process I worked more with images and words on video rather than paper. I tried to consider how much energy I was using at LGI during rehearsals, especially light and heat. We once put on a video of a fire crackling instead of turning on the heaters, and this became an important constant within the work. Geoffrey mostly used recycled fabrics and materials to create the costumes. I like to experiment with loads of materials in the studio, a lot of which are not really reusable or recyclable. I had to ask myself if materials I associate with excess (gold, marble, party poppers, champagne) were really necessary, could I explore what I was interested in another way? I had to reconsider what is actually necessary to make a dance, what is important. These questions encouraged me to go deeper into dance making, into the body. Whilst making Romancer I borrowed what is already available at LGI - yoga mats, old flowers, dance magazines. I’m interested in how a work can be informed when you borrow everything you need, and how these relationships or new trajectories can feed back into the process and take it to exciting, unexpected places. Thank you: to Jacqui, Geoffrey, Claire, Lucy, Jo, Annette, Ben, Lucile, Emile, Andrew, Jimmy, Bec, Chad, Sandra, Lz, Angela, Mum and Dad ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1161 Choreography: Angela Goh With and by: Angela Goh, Alex Mack, T1000, Bruce Lee and LUSH cosmetics. 1161 is what GC 161 and T 1000 adds up, or melts down to. A puddle of naivety and violence, somewhere between teenage girl and calculated villain. Neither good nor evil, it assumes all forms in order to become formless. ----I find the line between art and life is soft and porous, and so the sustainability aspect of this year’s Pieces for Small Spaces was a further opportunity to reflect more widely upon how I am integrating sustainable thinking and doing in my life, and how this might also be reflected in my artistic practice. I approach my work by contextualising it in a broader relation to the world, and so to extend this thinking to an environmental perspective felt welcomed and natural. Whilst it can sometimes feel like being just one person on this big planet can’t make a very big difference, it is also an empowering action to take a personal responsibility for your own actions, and so what can begin as an overwhelming, saddening thought about the state of this world, can be turned into a productive, personal and powerful undertaking. Thank you to Matt Wicking and the LGI team for being small but thinking big. Thank you: Anna May Kirk, Matt Cornell, Ellen Davies, Corin Ileto, and all at LGI.
Eternal Birthing (Constantly Crowning) // Cyborgs and Goddesses Choreography: Chad McLachlan Performers: Chad McLachlan and Milo Hyde She is a gateway to a gateway, which leads to another gateway. Distance is irrelevant. She is birth, afterbirth, before birth, false birth, unbirth, rebirth, no birth, just birth, eternal birth, distant birth, false birth, birthing again, external birth, false birth, natural birth, unnatural birth, artificial birth, organic birth, free range birth birth of death is the only confirmation. We are reborn, naturally, on stage. Achieving immortality through deception. Sustaining existence by lying and scapegoating false selfs and true selfs. ----We have been in a dialogue about social sustainability. We don’t know what this means necessarily (it could be a lot of things) but here are some questions that were of interest while we were working; How do we recycle elements of ourself and each other in order to give birth to new identities? How can we destigmatize what is natural/true and what is artificial/false? How can we work at blurring the boundaries between true and false identities? We are reborn, naturally, on stage. Achieving immortality through deception. Sustaining existence by lying and scapegoating false selfs and true selfs. Thank you: to Shian Law, Jo Lloyd, Leon and on Andon, Baden, Sheridan, Lucy Guerin, Claire
Lucy Guerin Inc
28 Batman Street, West Melbourne, VIC, 3003 admin@lucyguerininc.com | 03 9329 4213 www.lucyguerininc.com Artistic Director: Lucy Guerin Executive Producer: Annette Vieusseux Company Manager: Claire Bradley Duke Admin Assistant: Alexandra Macalister-Bills Resident Director 2016: Jo Lloyd Board: Chloe Munro (Chair), Elly Bloom, Robin Fox, Lucy Guerin (Secretary), Amy Henderson, Ian McDougall (Deputy Chair) & Margaret Parker (Treasurer). SUPPORT LUCY GUERIN INC - DOUBLE YOUR DONATION! All donations to Lucy Guerin Inc are matched by a Creative Partnerships Australia Plus1 grant, doubling your contribution to our programs supporting independent dancemakers. All donations over $2 are tax deductible. If you would like to contribute, you can do so online via Give Now: givenow.com.au/lucyguerininc. Or contact our Executive Producer Annette Vieusseux on 03 9329 4213 | annette@lucyguerininc.com Pieces for Small Spaces 2016 is generously supported by the Angior Family Foundation and The Besen Family Foundation. In 2016 Lucy Guerin Inc has also been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, Creative Victoria and The City of Melbourne. Many thanks to our local supporters and partners: Parkhill Cellars, North Melbourne Books and Dispensa Cafe. Acknowledgement of Country: Lucy Guerin Inc respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri people who are the traditional custodians of the land on which we make art, conversations & connections. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past and present. We acknowledge and uphold their continuing relationship to this land and contribution to contemporary Australian artistic practice, and extend that respect to other Indigenous Australians who join us at Lucy Guerin Inc.