Lucy Guerin:NEWRETRO, live performance. Photograph: Gregory Lorenzutti
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This is a past program.
Main exhibition gallery
Free
Join choreographer Lucy Guerin in conversation with dance researcher Andrew Fuhrmann and dance-artist Amaara Raheem, facilitated by ACCA’s Artistic Director & CEO Max Delany.
The panel will unpack new approaches to presenting archival dance-based materials, from documentation to restaging live performances, and what it means to revisit works from the past while adapting them into the future.
If you would like to request an Auslan interpreter at this event, please email programs@acca.melbourne by 10am Monday 27 March 2023. Read more about access at ACCA here.
Contributor biographies:
Max Delany commenced the role of Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer at ACCA in February 2016. He was formerly Senior Curator, Contemporary Art, at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2012–2016), and Director, Monash University Museum of Art (2004–2012), where he oversaw the development of MUMA’s award-winning architectural premises on the Caulfield campus.
Andrew Fuhrmann is researcher in dance and theatre studies with particular interest in the communicative and affective potentials of contemporary dance. He was closely involved in the creation of the Theatre and Dance Platform, a repository of significant Australasian performing arts collections hosted by the University of Melbourne that includes material from the Lucy Guerin Inc Archive. And he maintains an interest in questions about the creation, expansion and maintenance of performing arts archives in the digital realm. He is currently the dance critic for the Age newspaper in Melbourne and was previously the theatre critic for the Herald Sun.
Lucy Guerin AO established Lucy Guerin Inc in Melbourne 2002, to support the development, creation and touring of new works with a focus on challenging and extending the concepts and practice of contemporary dance. Guerin 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, Dance Works Rotterdam (Netherlands), Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA), Lyon Opera Ballet (France), Skånes Dansteater (Sweden) and Rambert (UK) among many others.
Amaara Raheem is a Sri Lankan Australian dance-artist based between Narrm/Melbourne and Black Range (regional Victoria). Her artforms – choreography and performance – takes multiple modes including live events, video, sound and text. For FRAME Amaara is facilitating ‘Sleep Activism’ a 12-hour choreographic lab exploring sleep/lessness as sites of resistance, at Lucy Guerin Inc. She sits on the Artistic Directorate for Next Wave and is inaugural thinker-in-residence for APHIDS. Recently Amaara was selected for ABC Top 5 (Arts) and commissioned to make programs for Radio National’s ‘Blueprint for Living’ on her research on artists-in-residence.
