Split review – Lucy Guerin's sparse and powerful portrait of escalating conflict

Guerin pairs a clothed performer with a nude one for another compelling and precisely structured work

Is there a more consistently engaging choreographer in Australia than Lucy Guerin? Since it was founded in 2002, her company, Lucy Guerin Inc, has produced some of the most varied, compelling and original works of contemporary dance in the country.

Consider, for instance, 2012’s Conversation Piece – an unremarkable name for a truly remarkable work. Developed in conjunction with Belvoir, six performers, three actors and three dancers stand on stage and have an eight-minute conversation, which they record on their iPhones. That conversation, completely improvised and therefore different in every performance, becomes the script for the work that follows, looping back over itself as the performers slot the words into pre-existing performance structures, simultaneously changing the intended meaning of both in ways that are surprising, hilarious and profound.

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