What happens when you put two highly-trained male dancers and two men who have never had any kind of dance or movement training on stage and ask them to step through the same tasks? Far more than a stage version of a ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ audition, what emerges in award-winning choreographer Lucy Guerin’s Untrained is a highly entertaining collaborative work that reveals something of the nature of artistic movement and how we express and expose ourselves through our bodies.
Since premiering in 2009 at the first Dance Massive, Untrained has been performed at festivals around Australia and internationally from a youth festival in Perth to Adelaide and the Sydney Opera House, to Hong Kong and Brazil. Guerin is currently in negotiations to take Untrained to BAM in New York and it about to commence a three-month Australian regional tour.
