Human Interest Story (2010) program

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HUMAN INTEREST STORY CHOREOGRAPHER LUCY GUERIN SET DESIGNER GIDEON OBARZANEK REALISING DESIGNER ANNA CORDINGLEY COSTUME DESIGNER PAULA LEVIS LIGHTING DESIGNER PAUL JACKSON COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER JETHRO WOODWARD PERFORMED BY STEPHANIE LAKE ALISDAIR MACINDOE TALITHA MASLIN HARRIET RITCHIE STUART SHUGG JESSICA WONG SPECIAL NEWSCAST BY ANTON ENUS NEWSCAST SCRIPT BY STEPHANIE LAKE STAGE MANAGERS RICHARD DINNEN & MATTHEW SCOTT FOR MEGAFUN SOUND OPERATOR NAT BRISTOW LIGHTING OPERATOR STEWART CAMPBELL SET & PROP CONSTRUCTION BY MALTHOUSE THEATRE WORKSHOP COSTUMES BY MALTHOUSE THEATRE WARDROBE CONSULTANT DRAMATURGE SIMON STONE THIS PROJECT IS SUPPORTED BY THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT THROUGH ARTS VICTORIA, INTERCONNECTIONS AND NEW WORK FOR FESTIVALS INITIATIVES MANAGED BY THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL, THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT’S ARTS FUNDING AND ADVISORY BODY. LUCY GUERIN INC WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THE DANCERS FOR THIER INSPIRATIONAL INPUT INTO THE CHOREOGRAPHY FOR HUMAN INTEREST STORY. THANKS TO RACHEL BAUGH, TRACEE HUTCHISON, MADELEINE KRENEK, LEE SERLE, ANGHARAD WYNNE-JONES, CHARMENE YAP AND ALISDAIR MACINDOE FOR HIS HOMEMADE SYNTHESISER. SPECIAL THANKS TO ANTON ENUS FOR HIS GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE NEWS REPORT AND MAKING IT THE ‘REAL THING’.

STUART SHUGG APPEARS COURTESY OF DANCE EXCHANGE. Lucy Guerin Inc and Malthouse Theatre gratefully acknowledge the support of ACMI; providing the recording studio for ‘the News’, with Anton Enus.

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A NOTE FROM LUCY GUERIN Human Interest Story aims to synthesise the many relationships between the news and our experience. My own relationship to current events feels complex and not without a certain amount of anxiety. The trivialities of daily life tend to overtake so easily the infuriating and heart rending events which are reported to us everyday. Of course this is normal and as it should be. We cannot live our lives constantly responding emotionally, intellectually and financially to the rollercoaster of the day’s headlines. But there is a responsibility to know what’s going on in the world. Most of us have some kind of routine for staying in touch with world events; listening to the news in the car, reading the paper, watching TV at night, which fits into and overlaps with our domestic routine.

It is this interweaving of mundane daily detail and devastating global happenings which is at the core of Human Interest Story. Here in Australia it often feels like a safe haven; removed from the threats of war, famine and terrorism.

We have serious issues to deal with in our country but most of us don’t know what it is to live in an unstable, dangerous place where our freedoms are severely threatened by outside forces. But it’s always a possibility: as we saw with the Black Saturday bushfires, we can be touched. We are not immune to large scale tragedy, but it feels like a distant threat.

The fortunes of our planet are transmitted to us in a constant stream of words and images that cause us to swing from anger, to empathy, to indifference, to fear, to ignorance, to helpless inertia and sometimes into action. There are days when the news is on the tip of our tongues and others when our own personal concerns consume us and we don’t give it a thought.

News events may seem an odd choice for a dance piece. They are factual and cut and dried, belonging to a world documented through words and images. Dance is often considered a less ‘pointy’ form of communication. It affects us in complex and not always easily articulated ways and cannot give us the detailed information of a news broadcast with the same efficacy. But it can synthesise a complex web of information, ideas and emotions. The news is dazzling in its speed and detail, beaming directly to our inner sanctums and connecting us with the messy, dangerous, frightening and sad stories of our world. Its language and format are almost comforting in their familiarity, in spite of the horrors they convey. It is these tensions that have become the physical material of Human Interest Story.

CREDIT: IMAGE FROM REHEARSAL DVD. PICTURED: (L - R) STUART SHUGG, STEPHANIE LAKE, ALISDAIR MACINDOE,TALITHA MASLIN, HARRIET RITCHIE, JESSICA WONG

ANNA CORDINGLEY

LUCY GUERIN

PAUL JACKSON

ANNA CORDINGLEY REALISING DESIGNER As Resident Designer at Malthouse Theatre, Anna Cordingley’s set and costume credits include The Threepenny Opera, Elizabeth - Almost By Chance A Woman, Furious Mattress, One Night the Moon, Knives in Hens, Happy Days, A Commercial Farce, Rogue, Woyzeck (as Assistant Designer) and, as a freelance designer, Not Like Beckett and Autobiography of Red. Beyond the theatre, Anna has designed for Simon Barley (Bambuco) with The Eighth Bridge over the River Tyne (UK) and Spine, Ludo and Rue Faidherbe Lille 2004 (France) and for Well, The Great Wall of Books (Macau). Her exhibitions include An Account of Bridges at the Baltic Contemporary Art Centre/Sage Gateshead (UK) and Facilitation for Brook Andrew in Colony in the 2007 Den Haag Sculpture Exhibition (The Netherlands).

Her public events include the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony (Indigenous Section) and Closing Ceremony (Marvelous Melbourne).

Anna has a Bachelor of Dramatic Art, Production Design from the Victorian College of the Arts and is midway through a Masters of Curatorship at Melbourne University.

Warby, Woo Co (Denmark), Ricochet (UK), The Berlin Literature Festival (with poet Michael Lenz), JCDN/Hirano (Japan), Dance Works Rotterdam and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA), among others. In 2002 she formed her company Lucy Guerin Inc. Her works have toured to France, The Netherlands, UK, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Singapore, Korea, Shanghai, Canada and throughout the USA. In 2000 Lucy was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award for achievement by an individual.

Other awards include the Prix d’auteur from the Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Bagnolet in France, a 1994 New York Foundation for the Arts Choreographic Fellowship and a 1997 New York Dance and Performance Award (a ‘Bessie’) for her piece Two Lies. In 2007, Structure and Sadness won an Australian Green Room award for Best Choreography, a Helpmann Award for Best Dance Work and an Australian Dance Award for Best Performance by a Company. Recent works for Lucy Guerin Inc include Structure and Sadness, Corridor and Untrained. She has also collaborated on projects with visual artist David Rosetzky, ACMI screen gallery, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Australian Opera.

LUCY GUERIN CHOREOGRAPHER Lucy Guerin was born in Adelaide, Australia and graduated from the Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 before joining the companies of Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks). She moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where she danced with Tere O’Connor Dance, the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner. Now based in Melbourne, Lucy has been commissioned by Chunky Move, Ros

PAUL JACKSON LIGHTING DESIGNER Paul Jackson works for Melbourne based firm The Flaming Beacon as a theatre, architectural and events lighting designer, is an Artist-in-Residence at Malthouse Theatre, and is the Lighting Designer for the Australian Art Orchestra. His design work for performance includes lighting designs for The Australian Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet, West Australian Ballet, Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Playbox Theatre

STEPHANIE LAKE

Company, Malthouse Theatre, BalletLab, Not Yet It’s Difficult performance group, Victorian Opera, Oz Opera, Chamber Made Opera, Melbourne Opera, Melbourne Workers Theatre, Black Swan Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Company, The Production Company, Lucy Guerin Inc, Neon Heart Theatre, La Mama, Ranters Theatre and others. He has lectured in design and associated studies at the University of Melbourne, RMIT University, NMIT and Victorian College of the Arts.

A co-founder and technical manager of the award–winning Not Yet It’s Difficult performance group, Paul was co-designer of K, presented at the 2002 Melbourne Festival, the 2003 Vienna Festival and the 2005 Seoul Festival. Paul has been nominated for 18 Victorian Green Room Awards for set and lighting design and was the winner of the Best Lighting (Opera) Award for 2004, Best Design (Cabaret) 2005 and Best Lighting (Drama) 2006. He has been nominated for several Helpmann Awards and Sydney Theatre Critics Circle Awards. A key creative team member on numerous award-winning shows, Paul was also named in the Arts and Entertainment section of The Bulletin’s Smart 100 for 2004 and was the Gilbert Spottiswood Churchill Fellow for 2007.

STEPHANIE LAKE PERFORMER Stephanie Lake is a Melbourne based dancer, choreographer and teacher. As a teenager in Launceston she was a founding member of Stompin and did an apprenticeship with TasDance before moving to Melbourne. Graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2000, Stephanie has spent the past ten years working with choreographers including Lucy Guerin, Gideon Obarzanek at Chunky Move, Phillip Adams’ BalletLab, Antony

PAULA LEVIS

Hamilton and Byron Perry and GoD BE IN MY MouTH. She has toured Australia, Europe, the UK, the US, Canada and Asia.

Stephanie won the Green Room Award for Best Emerging Dancer in 2000 and the Melbourne Festival Choice Award for Trike, which she co-directed in the same year. She has been nominated for an Australian Dance Award and Green Room Award for her work with Lucy. Stephanie has also had acclaim as a choreographer with several commissions for short works from Chunky Move, Lucy Guerin, Stompin and Natalie Cursio as well as her own projects. She has lectured and choreographed regularly for the students at the Faculty of the VCA and Music for the past ten years. Stephanie created a large participatory dance work for 100 people for Chunky Move/Ausdance in 2009 that was performed in Federation Square and a City of Melbourne mob dance for 400 dancers performed in Bourke St Mall in January this year. This year Stephanie is associate choreographer to Gideon Obarzanek for his new work, is creating a “pop-up” project for Melbourne Festival and will choreograph her own full-length piece, Mix Tape for Chunky Move as part of the Next Move program.

PAULA LEVIS COSTUME DESIGNER Paula Levis studied fashion design at RMIT and completed a Graduate Diploma in Theatre Design at VCA in 2001. She has designed for numerous production companies including Victorian Opera, Danceworks, Dancehouse, DanceNorth, Red Stitch Actor’s Theatre and La Mama.

Recently she has designed costumes for Chunky Move (GLOW, Singularity, I Want to Dance Better at Parties), Lucy Guerin Inc (Structure & Sadness, Aether, Lost Air), Rebecca Hilton (Historia), and KAGE

TALITHA MASLIN

ALISDAIR MACINDOE

(Headlock, Nowhere Man) and Costume/ Concept Design for Australian Resident Company- World Expo, Japan). She was design assistant and illustrator on the film Tom White and teaches design at RMIT. TALITHA MASLIN PERFORMER Talitha Maslin was born in Manjimup, a small town in the south of Western Australia. She trained in the Royal Academy of Dance syllibus before being accepted into the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts Advanced Diploma program. While at WAAPA she performed in classical works La Sylphide, Giselle and La Vivandere. She undertook secondment with Leigh Warren and Dancers and has choreographed for her former ballet school. In her final year she performed contemporary works by Timothy Harbour, Sue Peacock, Natalie Weir and Lucy Guerin.

Upon graduating Talitha received the Finley Award for the most improved. This year Talitha is working as a part of LINK dance company at WAAPA to complete her Bachelor of Arts.

ALISDAIR MACINDOE PERFORMER Alisdair Macindoe is a Melbourne based dancer who trained in dance at The Victorian Collage of the Arts. Performance highlights include his own works Bromance and Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain, Lucy Guerin Inc’s Structure and Sadness, Katrina Lazarof’s Pomona Road pt 3, Lina Limosani’s The Tighter You Squeeze (development showing) and Seven with Leigh Warren and Dancers.

Alisdair has also performed in work by Nat Cursio Inc (short works by Nat Cursio, Jo Lloyd and Gerard Van Dyke), Underpass, Bare Bones Collective, Chunky Move and Coby Orger.

GIDEON OBARZANEK

GIDEON OBARZANEK SET DESIGNER Gideon Obarzanek became interested in dance towards the end of high school and after graduating deferred science at university to study at the Australian Ballet School. He later danced with the Queensland Ballet and the Sydney Dance Company before working as an independent performer and choreographer with various dance companies and independent projects within Australia and abroad.

These have included commissions from the Australian Ballet Company, The Sydney Dance Company, Opera Australia and the Netherlands Dance Theatre. Gideon founded Chunky Move in 1995 and has been its artistic director to date. While the company mostly features his work, it also commissions various other Australian choreographers and invites international choreographers to give workshops in its home city of Melbourne, Australia.

Gideon’s works have been diverse in form and content including stage productions, installations, site-specific works and film.

His works have been performed in many festivals and theatres around the world in the U.K, Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Most recently, Gideon’s film, Dance Like Your Old Man, co-directed with Edwina Throsby won best short documentary at the 2007 Melbourne International Film Festival, 2008 Flickerfest International Short Film Festival and Best Film at the Cinedans Festival in Amsterdam. In collaboration with Lucy Guerin and Michael Kantor, Gideon has also received a New York Bessie award for outstanding choreography and creation for Chunky Move’s production of Tense Dave. In 2008 he received two Australian Helpmann Awards for GLOW and Mortal Engine.

HARRIET RITCHIE

STUART SHUGG

HARRIET RITCHIE PERFORMER Harriet Ritchie trained in Sydney before graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Dance in 2005, and Honours in 2007. While studying she received the Inaugural Dr Phillip Law Travel Scholarship. Since then she has toured throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and the USA performing and developing works for Chunky Move (Glow, Mortal Engine), Finucane & Smith (The Burlesque Hour, Salon de Dance), Shaun Parker (Happy as Larry), Antony Hamilton (The Counting), Byron Perry (A Volume Problem) and Lucy Guerin Inc (Melt, Aether, Structure and Sadness, Corridor, Human Interest Story). Harriet was part of the Lucy Guerin Inc Aether company that won the 2007 Greenroom Award for Best Dance Ensemble, and she was nominated for a 2008 Greenroom Award for Most Outstanding Female Dancer, for her work in Corridor. Harriet’s choreographic credits include Pop Love, a work she created for Lucy Guerin Inc’s Pieces For Small Spaces and That’s Bloody Right for the 2010 Next Wave Festival. She is also a founding member of the dance collective Rogue, and collaborated in creating Ocular Proof for the 2008 Next Wave Festival and Puck for Dance Massive.

STUART SHUGG PERFORMER Stuart Shugg graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Dance in 2008. While studying he received the award for Most Improved in Ballet in 2007 and Most Outstanding Talent in 2008.

He has performed in Antony Hamilton’s Blazeblue Oneline and BalletLab’s Axeman Lullaby. Since 2009 he has been dancing with Russell Dumas’ Dance Exchange performing in Dance Massive’s Huit a’ Huit and Dance for the Time Being. He

JESSICA WONG

JETHRO WOODWARD

recently received an ArtStart grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to use film technology to document and develop his dance practice.

JESSICA WONG PERFORMER Jessica Wong trained at Manly Dance Arts Centre in Sydney prior to attending The Victorian College of the Arts where she graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Dance. During her studies Jessica performed in works by Neil Adams, Rebecca Hilton, Phillip Adams, Lina Limosani, Antony Hamilton, Stephanie Lake and Sue Healey. Human Interest Story is Jessica’s debut performance with Lucy Guerin Inc. JETHRO WOODWARD COMPOSER Jethro Woodward graduated from the VCA School of Music in 2000 and since then has worked as a composer for a range of theatre companies including Malthouse Theatre (Human Interest Story with Lucy Guerin Inc, Furious Mattress, The Eisteddfod, Black Swan of Trespass with Stuck Pigs Squealing, A Quarrelling Pair, Apples and Ladders with Aphids, Black Medea with Company B Belvoir), Malthouse Theatre and Arena Theatre Company co-productions (Moth, Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd, Criminology), Company B Belvoir (Antigone, Pillowman), Stuck Pigs Squealing (Apocalypse Bear, Lally Katz and the Terrible Mysteries of the Volcano), Windmill (The Wizard Of Oz), Rawcus (The Heart Of Another Is A Dark Forest, Hunger with MSO, Sideshow), Rear Window Ensemble (Inhabited Man) and Liminal Theatre (Duets Of Desire, Damask Drum). Jethro has also worked for the Australia Dance Theatre (Zero Sum, Slack) and composed music for film including Van Dieman’s Land, Hell’s Gate’s and The Heartbreak Tour (for SBS).

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LUCY GUERIN INC Lucy Guerin Inc is an Australian dance company established in Melbourne in 2002 to create and tour new dance works. Renowned for the skill and originality of its small group of performers, it is a flexible organisation dedicated to challenging and extending the art of contemporary dance.

The company is committed to the exploration of everyday events and the redefinition of the formal concerns of dance. New productions are generated through an experimental approach to creative process and may involve voice, video, sound, text and industrial design as well as Guerin’s lucid physical structures. Crucially, this is always a choreographic exploration, striving for visual, emotional and physical revelations that could not be generated or communicated in any other artform than dance.

Lucy Guerin Inc has been a major influence on the growing identity of Australian dance. This stems from the company’s programmatic research into choreographic practice supported through several initiatives. To this end Lucy Guerin Inc has instigated a development program which includes: Space Residencies for choreographers to use space at the Lucy Guerin Inc Studio in West Melbourne to work on a new contemporary dance project. In 2010 these include Tim Darbyshire, Holly Durant, Luke George, Antony Hamilton, Alisdair Macindoe, Rennie McDougall and Brook Stamp.

Pieces for Small Spaces is an annual curated program for new dance works by emerging choreographers in Melbourne. In 2010 these include Deanne Butterworth, Tim Darbyshire, Matthew Day, Amber Haines and Frankie Snowdon.

Hot Bed is a workshop program for professional dancers. Workshops are led by local and international choreographers to encourage a broad understanding in the local dance community of current contemporary dance thinking and practice. The 2010 workshops are

by Mette Ingvartsen (Denmark) and Tere O’Connonr (USA).

First Run is a bi-monthly event at Lucy Guerin Inc Studio which provides an opportunity for artists to share their current practice through studio showings of first draft works.

Commissioning of new works by emerging choreographers. In 2010 Lucy Guerin Inc commissioned two works including Alisdair Macindoe’s Bromance, which was presented at both the Arts House Meat Market as part of the Next Wave Festival and at Performance Space in Sydney. And Luke George’s Now Now Now that will be presented at Dancehouse from Wednesday 28 July to Sunday 1 August 2010. For further information visit: www.dancehouse.com.au

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