Lucy Guerin Born in Adelaide, Australia, Lucy Guerin 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, Guerin has been commissioned by Chunky Move, One Extra Dance Company, Dance Works, Tasdance, Ros Warby, Woo Co (Denmark) and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA). Her work The Ends of Things premiered in the 2000 Melbourne Festival and received three Victorian Green Room Awards for best male dancer (Trevor Patrick), best female dancer (Ros Warby) and best dance theatre piece. In 2000 Guerin 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 and a 1994 New York Foundation for the Arts Choreographic Fellowship. In 1997 her piece Two Lies won a New York Dance and Performance Award (a 'Bessie') for choreography. In 2002 she established Lucy Guerin Inc. with producer Angharad Wynne-Jones to support the creation and performance of works which tour nationally and internationally. Guerin’s most recent piece Melt premiered in Melbourne in September 2002. In 2003 Melt and The Ends of Things will tour to seven cities in the US and Canada. Guerin was commissioned by Chunky Move to choreograph works for Arcade and Bodyparts. Most recently she has been working on the Company’s production of Tense Dave (premiere in October 2003).