References

• Heavy Heavy is based on the descent into the sleep cycle, beginning with sleep stages 1 - 4 and moving into REM or the dreaming stage. This work contrasts the clinical realm of the sleep laboratory with the dark, unreachable labyrinths of the dreaming mind.
• HEAVY Premiere: 7 November, 1998, The Athenaeum II, Melbourne. Heavy is based on the descent into the sleep cycle, beginning with sleep stages 1 – 4 and moving into REM or the dreaming stage. This work contrasts the clinical realm of the sleep laboratory with the dark, unreachable labyrinths of the dreaming mind. RESPONSES: “…choreography that is as precise and inexorable as a sewing machine and as evocative as a dream” JENNIFER DUNNING, THE NEW YORK TIMES, MAY 1999, NEW YORK “Gut-wrenching, body-blasting, mind-bending dances like Lucy Guerin’s ‘Heavy’ are so rare that watching them feels as perilous, vertiginous and weird as staring into a crevasse.” CERINA SURVANT, THE OREGONIAN, MAY 1999, PORTLAND “Guerin submits her dancers to a demanding routine that veers from the highly atheletic to the dreamily surreal” HILARY CRAMPTON, THE AGE, NOVEMBE 1998, MELBOURNE