Twenty-five years after founding her innovative contemporary dance company, Lucy Guerin is ready to embrace the next chapter in her career. The Australian choreographer chats to Jane Albert about her dance journey and her future plans.

The Forest, choreographed by Lucy Guerin with the Lucy Guerin Inc dancers, in a staging at Melbourne’s 2026 RISING festival. Photo © Gianna Rizzo

There have been two periods in Lucy Guerin’s professional life that she has found – in her own words – “quite tortuous”. Unsurprisingly, given her life is inextricably linked with choreography, both refer to dance, specifically solos she created on herself to perform.

What is surprising is that given how challenging she found the first solo – devised at...