Choreographer Lucy Guerin is looking for untrained male dancers to be part of her latest show.
If you think you can’t dance, then ‘Untrained’ is for you!
It’s a professional, contemporary dance show featuring two entirely untrained dancers, and they’re holding auditions in Bendigo for you to be part of it.
Acclaimed choreographer Lucy Guerin is behind this intriguing production, and as she explained the concept to Fiona Parker.
“It’s sort of a comparison between how dancers that are highly trained approach activities compared to just your regular ordinary person,” she says.
“I think the interesting thing about the work is that we do get to see how amazing (professional) dancers are… (and) see how interesting it is to watch the effort of someone who perhaps can’t do these things quite as well, but how intriguing it is to just watch that focus and effort go into attempting some of these things.”
Auditions are on in Bendigo on Friday 11th March, 2011, with the tour through Central, Western and North West Victoria in July.
For more information call Anne at the Capital on (03) 5434 6007.
lucy guerin is an accomplished choreographer. i’ve always enjoyed her work - and i particularly like the fact that she’s putting up archives of her older material on her website. some of these old works were simply stunning for the simplicity of design and focus on dance alone. i also saw them when contemporary dance was very new to me - so they’ve left a big mark.
I haven’t seen untrained so really can’t comment on what it’s like. while the premise is interesting, i think it’s a bit of a one trick pony. it appears to use task based choreography to expose the difference between un/trained bodies for some entertainment - which is not necessarily a bad thing. but what i find fascinating about untrained bodies is not how well/poorly they can execute instructions (as compared to a trained body), but what they can convey in movement that isn’t informed by years of patterning exercises developed with their own understanding of dance/choreography. rather than imposed rules to make untrained dance, i think it’s far more engaging to see people using resources/tools to create their own dance.
(Source: bridgettelizabeth)
