Lou

The origin of Lou lies in the encounter between the  choreographer Mickaël Phelippeau, whose bi-portraits have gradually  turned his choreographic project into a tool for studying  intersubjectivity, and Béatrice Massin, whose Fêtes Galantes promotes  the renaissance of baroque dance. Lou is Lou Cantor, a young  performer, trained by Béatrice Massin since her childhood. Consistent  with his approach favouring the individual, dialogue and evolving  practices, Mickaël Phelippeau conceived this portrait as a levelling: a  blank page, allowing for a comprehension of Lou Cantor’s apprenticeship  in dance, alongside the trajectory leading from the birth of a gesture  to its being put into action. In this way, each element in space – the  score, steps, music, costumes –put back together a piece of the enigma:  what links an individual with their practice? With Lou, the pleasure of  precisely placing each gesture – the position of the feet, the legs,  arms and hands – emphasises the basic dimension which is at play: with  different versions of Aria della Folia, space and motion become  structured, sketching out in the background the story of a body being  constructed by baroque dance, from childhood to adulthood.

Source: programme of the CN D