Newspaper article, Heavy (dance) performed at Athenaeum Theatre Two on 7 November 1998, Lucy Guerin as Choreographer
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HeavyHeavy 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.
HEAVYPremiere: 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
