Place Dances

Place Dances is a new solo work by Lucy Guerin, premiering at Buxton Contemporary.

Place Dances arrives at a significant moment. After twenty-five years as the founding Artistic Director of Lucy Guerin Inc, Guerin has announced that she will step down from the role at the end of 2026. Returning to perform herself for the first time in thirteen years, Guerin embodies what it looks like to remain a practising artist across a lifetime. The work is a live reckoning with sixty years of dance thinking, made visible in the body that has done that thinking. For audiences—dancers and non-dancers alike—this is a rare chance to witness the full arc of a life in dance.

The October 2026 premiere season at Buxton Contemporary marks the first iteration of what will be an ongoing research process.

Performance Dates + Times:

• Thursday 15 October, 7:30pm - 8:15pm
• Friday 16 October, 6:30pm - 7:15pm (with a post-performance talk)
• Saturday 17 October, 3pm - 3:45pm
• Saturday 17 October, 7:30pm - 8:15pm
• Sunday 18 October, 5pm - 5:45pm

Ticket Prices:

$42 Full (+ service fees)
$30 Concession (+ service fees)
$18 Blaktix (+ service fees)

Partners

This project is presented by Lucy Guerin Inc and supported by the Sidney Myer Fund and Lucy Guerin Inc’s Commissioning Circle. This presentation would not have been possible without the generous support of the late Chloe Munro AO, Terry Wu and WXYZ Studios.