One Single Action

Dance
Her Majesty’s Theatre Ballarat & Lucy Guerin Inc Presents
One Single Action
13 Feb 2025
Sessions
Thursday
February 13, 2025

19:30 – 20:30
Tickets
Information
Show type Dance
duration 60 minutes
Location Her Majesty's Theatre Ballarat
Prices A Reserve $49
B Reserve $44
C Reserve $40
Cheap Seats $25 (restricted view)
Under 30 $30
Mob Tix $25

We are proud to offer Mob Tix. These are discounted tickets for self-identified First Nations People to selected shows at Ballarat’s Cultural Venues.

One Single Action
is a new dance work from internationally acclaimed choreographer Lucy Guerin. Two dancers traverse a narrow path, in and out of sync, in conflict and in harmony – moving through fragmented terrain that leads in one direction. In an attempt to interrupt the acceleration of our times and pause the relentless scrolling of their thoughts, they resort to a single desperate action. 

Performed by Amber McCartney and Geoffrey Watson, this captivating duet embodies the disjuncture between the internal and external dimensions of the human experience in a world fraught with interference. Following the premieres of two large-scale works in 2021 (PENDULUM) and 2023 (NEWRETRO), One Single Action is a return to the intimacy of Guerin’s award-winning work SplitOne Single Action first premiered at Chunky Move Studios for RISING in Melbourne, June 2024.


Cast & Creatives
Program
Doors 7pm
Show Commences 7:30pm

Artists
Choreography: Lucy Guerin with the dancers
Dancers: Amber McCartney, Geoffrey Watson
Lighting Design: Paul Lim
Costume Design: Kate Davis
Composition & Sound Design: CS + Kreme
Producer: Estelle Conley
Executive Producer: Ally Harvey

LUCY GUERIN
Award-winning choreographer Lucy Guerin was born in Adelaide, Australia, and graduated from the Centre for Performing Arts in 1982 before dancing with Russell Dumas (Dance Exchange) and Nanette Hassall (Danceworks). Guerin moved to New York in 1989 for seven years where she danced with Tere O’Connor Dance, the Bebe Miller Company and Sara Rudner, and began to produce her first choreographic works.

In 2002 she founded Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI) in Melbourne, to support the development and creation of new works with a focus on challenging and extending the discourse and practice of dance and building a vibrant community of dance artists. Guerin’s works have merged with film, words, music, design, and visual art in collaboration with many other artists. New productions are generated through an experimental approach to thecreative process. Guerin works towards creating small societies in her productions that devise their rules from the human body’s relationship to space, rhythm, and other people. The dancers are her primary collaborators.

Guerin has been commissioned by companies including Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project (USA), Lyon Opera Ballet (France), Chunky Move (Australia), Dance Works Rotterdam (Netherlands), Skånes Dansteater (Sweden), and Rambert (UK). Her awards include the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, a New York Dance and Performance Award (‘Bessie’) and multiple Green Room, Helpmann, and Australian Dance Awards. In 2016, Guerin received the Australia Council Award for Dance, and in 2020 the Order of Australia(AO).

AMBER McCARTNEY
Amber McCartney is a Naarm/Melbourne-based dancer and choreographer. Her practice incorporates prosthetics, mask-making, film and practical special effects to create new augmented bodies, unfamiliar to both the performer and viewer. Amber has worked extensively with Chunky Move and Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI) and is a creative associate of Tasdance.

Amber received a John Truscott Artists Award for her solo Tiny Infinite Deaths, performed in RISING 2023 at the National Gallery of Victoria. This work was originally commissioned by LGI for PIECES2022, co-presented by LGI and The Substation. In 2023, she premiered her solo Baby Girl, commissioned by Tasdance, for MONA FOMA in the Nolan Gallery, MONA.

In 2022 Amber was honoured to receive a Chloe Munro Fellowship through LGI. She also won a Green Room Award for Best Performer in Prue Lang’s Project F and was a finalist for the Telstra Emerging Choreographer Award. Her film Tiny Passenger was screened in dance(lens) at Dancehouse. In 2020, Amber was a recipient of Solitude 1, Chunky Move’s home-based residency program and created her film Soft Trap for the 2021 Activators program.

GEOFFREY WATSON
Geoffrey Watson is a Melbourne-based artist whose work is rooted in choreography but has branches in wearable design, text, lighting, sculpture and photography. Through this work, Geoffrey advocates for a state of perceptual unrest: an agent to further confound the already confusing landscapes of art, history and reality.

Geoffrey’s performance works include Camel (Arts House, 2016), Loving You Ad Nauseam (Trades Hall, 2016) DISTRACTION: Smackdown! (Melbourne Fashion Festival, 2017), DISTRACTION: T.C.F’d Up (Counihan Gallery, 2017), Geoffrey’s Corpse: Violet Spurlock (Ufer studios Berlin, 2019), Rachael Wisby (The Substation, 2019), and ongoing visual arts mission Reverse Fruit.

As a performer, Geoffrey has worked with companies and artists including Ballet Lab, Nana Biluš-Abaffy, Lucy Guerin Inc. Lee Serle, Alisdair Macindoe, and Gekidan Kaitaisha. His costumes have been featured in Virgin Australia Fashion Festival, Melbourne Fashion Week, and in works by Lilian Steiner, Brooke Stamp, Matthew Bird et al.