Choreographer Lucy Guerin is looking for untrained male dancers to be part of her latest show.

If you think you can’t dance, then ‘Untrained’ is for you!

It’s a professional, contemporary dance show featuring two entirely untrained dancers, and they’re holding auditions in Bendigo for you to be part of it.

Acclaimed choreographer Lucy Guerin is behind this intriguing production, and as she explained the concept to Fiona Parker.

“It’s sort of a comparison between how dancers that are highly trained approach activities compared to just your regular ordinary person,” she says.

“I think the interesting thing about the work is that we do get to see how amazing (professional) dancers are… (and) see how interesting it is to watch the effort of someone who perhaps can’t do these things quite as well, but how intriguing it is to just watch that focus and effort go into attempting some of these things.”

Lucy says the moves “look simple when you watch them, but you see when an untrained dancer attempts to do say a simple straight-legged jump, that they just (can’t) extend their arms and legs in a straight line, so they’re not quite as aware where they’re bodies are in space.”

The footage from past productions (available on YouTube) shows the audience laughing at the untrained dancers’ efforts, but while Guerin describes it as “quite a funny show,” she says that people aren’t laughing AT the untrained dancers, instead, “they’re really behind them” and want them to succeed.

So what do you think fellas? This is your chance to shine on stage, and get paid for it.

Auditions are on in Bendigo on Friday 11th March, 2011, with the tour through Central, Western and North West Victoria in July.

For more information call Anne at the Capital on (03) 5434 6007.

Someone send Mark over to do this!