Romancer

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Event Romancer
Venue Lucy Guerin Inc Studio, West Melbourne, VIC
Umbrella Event Pieces for Small Spaces 2016
First Date 14 December 2016
Opening Date 14 December 2016
Last Date 18 December 2016
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere Yes
Description 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.
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Dance
Secondary Genre Contemporary
Subjects Environmentalism
Waste
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Leah Landau Choreographer
Geoffrey Watson Costume Designer
Lucy Guerin Curator
Jo Lloyd Curator
Michelle Thorne Lighting Designer
Jacqui Aylward Performer
Leah Landau Performer
Claire Bradley Duke Producer
Sarah Grey Production Manager
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Web https://lucyguerininc.com/works/pieces-for-small-spaces-2016#creative-team
Event Identifier 168497
Dataset AusStage