Lucy Guerin Inc

STRUCTURE AND SADNESS

• Venue: Project Arts Centre - Space Upstairs
• Dates: Friday 22 / Saturday 23 May
• Nationality: Australia
• Time: 8pm
• Duration: 55 mins (No interval)
• Tickets: €22 (Full price) / €18 (Concessions)

Choreographer Lucy Guerin takes the 1970 collapse of Melbourne’s Westgate Bridge as a starting point for Structure and Sadness. A complex and arresting dance work, Structure and Sadness bases its movement vocabulary on the engineering principles of compression, suspension, torsion and failure.

On stage, the six dancers construct a precarious world teetering on the point of breakdown. From the concrete and definable forms of the bridge under construction to the grief and chaos that followed, Structure and Sadness presents a physical, emotional and visual response to a devastating accident.

Guerin collaborates with motion graphics designer Michaela French, Scottish composer Gerald Mair and set and lighting designers Bluebottle. Structure and Sadness was awarded a 2007 Helpmann Award for Best Dance Work and an Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Performance by a Company.

See Structure and Sadness on YouTube

Director: Lucy Guerin

Choreography: Lucy Guerin and dancers

Photo Credit: Jeff Busby

Structure and Sadness has been supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts’ New Australian Story Initiative and its Major Festival Initiative, managed by the Australia Council for the Arts in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals, Melbourne International Arts Festival and Sydney Festival, Arts Victoria and the City of Melbourne. This tour was also supported by Arts Victoria.