NEWRETRO

NEWRETRO

21 works / 21 dancers / 21 years in the making

NEWRETRO is an epic new performance installation by leading Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin, celebrating Melbourne’s award-winning dance company Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI).

A large-scale assemblage of ideas, structures, and excerpts of Guerin’s choreography from LGI’s past productions is reconfigured to create a new long-form work inhabiting the iconic galleries at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).

Involving many of Melbourne’s most exceptional dancers, some who are original cast members and some who are new to the work, it addresses memory, ephemeral lineages and the dancer’s embodied knowledge. The ACCA galleries will frame the performers in a singular relationship to architecture and the spectator, to create an immersive experience both intimate and spectacular.

While reflective in its concept, NEWRETRO defies description as a retrospective, bringing past ideas and different generations into a new relationship to the present moment.

Lucy Guerin is one of Australia’s foremost choreographers and NEWRETRO is an exhilarating celebration of the dancers, the artform and a significant body of work.

"A singularly joyous experience, a celebration of the innate subversiveness of the human body."
– Alison Croggon on ‘Corridor’

Please note: audience members are free to roam and may come and go during the performance.

A Lucy Guerin Inc production presented in partnership with the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), as part of FRAME: A biennial of dance.

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Important information

NEWRETRO is a three-hour performance. 

Audience may choose their arrival time, and may come and go during the performance.

During the performance, patrons are free to roam through the gallery spaces. 

This is a standing performance. Some seating will be made available as required. 

The performance contains dynamic sounds.

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Pricing

Full $45 
Concession $35
FRAME Pass $30 (conditions apply)
BlaxTIX $20

Concession prices are available with a full-time student card, Centrelink Pensioner concession card or Veterans’ Affairs cards. 

Purchase a FRAME Pass for a minimum 15% discount on tickets to FRAME: A biennial of dance events. You must show your FRAME pass at the ACCA Box Office when you arrive.

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Panel discussions

Reframing the archive 
Lucy Guerin in conversation with dance researcher Andrew Fuhrmann and dance-artist Amaara Raheem, facilitated by ACCA’s Artistic Director & CEO Max Delany.
Wednesday 29 March, 4-5pm
Free!
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Dance Lineages and Legacies: Embodied transmissions through the generations
Lucy Guerin in conversation with French-Senegalese choreographer, dancer and pedagogue Germaine Acogny and philosopher, writer and dance critic Dr Philipa Rothfield, facilitated by dance curator and researcher Angela Conquet.
Saturday 1 April, 12–1pm
Free!
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Access

ACCA is wheelchair accessible.

The performance contains dynamic sounds.

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Creative team

Choreographer & Director: Lucy Guerin

Dancers: Alice Dixon, Amber McCartney, Antony Hamilton, Benjamin Hancock, Caitlin Mewett, Claire Leske, Cora Hughes, Deanne Butterworth, Geoffrey Watson, Georgia Rudd, Harrison Ritchie-Jones, Lee Serle, Lilian Steiner, Melanie Lane, Michelle Heaven, Ngioka Bunda-Heath, Raina Peterson, Rebecca Jensen, Samantha Hines, Stephanie Halyburton, Tra Mi Dinh

Guest Artists: Stephanie Lake and Alisdair Macindoe (select performances)

Lighting Designer: Paul Lim
Sound Designer & Composer: Jethro Woodward
Costume Designer: Kate Davis
Curator, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art: Elyse Goldfinch
Costume Construction: Janice Chalmers
Lighting Design Associate & Technical Operator: Nick Moloney
Production Manager: Genevieve Cizevskis
Stage Manager: Zsuzsa Gaynor Mihaly
Deputy Stage Manager: Giovanna Yate Gonzalez
Producer: Estelle Conley
Executive Producer: Brendan O'Connell

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Thank you

This project is supported by the Besen Family Foundation and the Playking Foundation. This presentation would not have been possible without the generous support of the late Chloe Munro AO.

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Image credit: Gregory Lorenzutti