Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin has just landed in Melbourne from Aix-en-Provence, where she has been working on a show involving young dancers, all aged between 11 and 18. “It opens in November,” she says. “I’m going back there once more because we have to rehearse during the school holidays.” In the meantime, she’s in Australia to premiere a new show, Flux Job, at North Melbourne’s Arts House.
That eclecticism, not to mention her global reach, is typical of an artist who has always had one foot in the international scene – both for artistic reasons and practical necessity. “There aren’t a lot of touring options in Australia. If you spend a lot of time and money making a work, you want people to see it,” she says.
