Édouard Lock

La La La Human Steps Founder, Artistic Director and Choreographer Édouard Lock began his choreographic career at the age of 20, creating works from 1974 to 1979 for a variety of Canadian dance companies and institutions, including Groupe Nouvelle Aire, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal. In 1980 he founded La La La Human Steps, a company that has garnered strong national and international recognition and that celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2006. Over the years Mr. Lock has been invited to create works for some of the world’s leading dance companies, including the Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, the Nederlands Dans Theater and Het Nationale Ballet of Holland. His works have garnered many awards, including Canada’s most important choreographic award. Mr. Lock co-conceived and was Artistic Director for David Bowie’s world tour, “Sound and Vision”, in 1990. He also collaborated with Frank Zappa on “the Yellow Shark concert” -an occasion that marked Mr. Zappa’s final performances-alongside Germany’s Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt’s Alte Oper, the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna’s KonzertHaus. 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) and “Amjad” (2007) -on international tours, two years for each creation, in the major capitals of Europe, Asia and America. Edouard Lock created “The Seasons” (2014) for the Sao Paulo Dance Company, revisiting Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. The company has been dissolved in 2015.

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