Lucy Guerin Inc
Structure and Sadness
Pre-Show Coffee and Conversation: Oct 1 at 6:30pm
Post-Show Talk with Tere O'Connor Oct 2
Pre-show cocktail reception followed by performance
Thursday Oct 1
$50
RSVP: 212.691.6500 X383 or email sarahk@dtw.org
Presented in partnership with Baryshnikov Arts Center
in association with Temple St. Clair Carr and Paul S. Engler through the David R. White Producers Circle
“The portrayal of balance…as well as the huge forces at play in construction, is beautifully executed…this is a clever, thoughtful piece” – The Daily Telegraph
“Structure and Sadness examines the beauty of solid forms and the tragedy of their transience, both in the fragile human body and the fallible structures in which we place our trust.” - Lucy Guerin
Australian choreographer Lucy Guerin uses the 1970 collapse of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne Australia, where 35 men lost their lives, as a starting point for Structure and Sadness. The work explores these events as a physical, emotional and visual response to a devastating accident. On stage, the six performers employ a movement vocabulary based on the engineering principles of compression, suspension, torsion and failure to construct a precarious world teetering on the point of collapse.
Please also visit bacnyc.org for information and to buy tickets for Lucy Guerin’s U.S. Premiere of Corridor at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Sep 16 - 20.
- Structure and Sadness (and Corridor, which is being presented at Baryshnikov Arts Center in partnership with Dance Theater Workshop) are funded, in part, by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding form the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. 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. It was also supported by Arts Victoria and the City of Melbourne.