La la la human steps

Artistic direction: Edouard Lock

Creation: 1980

La La La Human Steps was founded in 1980 around a three-week series of performances in the small theatre l’Eskabel in Montréal’s St-Henri district, which led the troupe to The Kitchen in New York City, the epicentre of contemporary dance at the time. Since then, the troupe has become one of the world’s most recognized dance companies, thanks to the unique choreographic language it developed and has constantly reinvented since its inception. Choreographic complexity, the alteration of balletic structures and the intertwining of choreographic, musical and cinematic strands are among the elements that create a sense of perceptual distortion and renewal, that encourage audiences to both reinvent and rediscover the body and its dance. The company requires that its dancers constantly redefine, question and renew themselves, to bring out performances that move from extreme physical challenge to the greatest of lyricism. The Montréal troupe has collaborated with institutions both prestigious and eclectic, from the Opéra de Paris to Frank Zappa. Since Human Sex in 1985, which catapulted La La La Human Steps to the forefront of the international dance scene, the troupe has performed shows – “New Demons” (1987), “Infante, c’est destroy” (1991), “2” (1995), “Exaucé/Salt” (1998), “Amelia” (2002) et “Amjad” (2007) – on international tours, two years for each creation, in the major capitals of Europe, Asia and America. The company was dissolved in 2015.

Source: Epidemic

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