danses vagabondes

Louise Lecavalier

2024/25 Große Stücke Tanz Kulturpass

The exceptional dancer and icon of contemporary Canadian dance Louise Lecavalier has cult status and is returning to HELLERAU with a new creation. Once again, the energetic dancer will take dance to a virtuoso peak with her speed and precision. The starting point of Louise Lecavalier’s work is her fascination with the impulse of movement, which precedes all forms of human communication. With this approach, Louise Lecavalier takes risks and unconditionally explores the ‘absolute’ in dance as a metaphor for the absolute in humanity.

Louise Lecavalier worked with Édouard Lock and La La La Human Steps from 1981 to 1999. The works she created during this time now enjoy cult status – not least because she performed on stage with David Bowie and Frank Zappa. With the founding of her company ‘Fou glorieux’ in 2006, she transferred her overwhelmingly energetic dance style into her own choreographies. Her first major production was ‘So Blue’ (2012), followed by ‘Battleground’ (2016) and ‘Stations’ (2020), both of which were performed at HELLERAU. Louise Lecavalier received an honorary doctorate from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in 2017.

Duration: ca. 1 h

13.12. there will be a reception following the performance
14.12. following the performance there will be an audience discussion 

Dancer and choreographer Louise Lecavalier worked with Édouard Lock and La La La Human Steps from 1981 to 1999, a period of exceptional intensity punctuated by works that have since become mythical along with scintillating collaborations with David Bowie and Frank Zappa. Her extreme dance, filled with a fiery energy, caught the imagination of a whole generation. Since founding her own company, Fou glorieux, in 2006, her movement research has been emblematic of her whole career, emphasizing the surpassing of limits and risk-taking, a search for the absolute in which she seeks to bring out the “more-than-human in the human”. She created her first full-length piece, So Blue, in 2012, followed by Battleground four years later. Both works premiered at tanzhaus nrw. Most recently, she premiered the work Stations on our main stage in 2020. Now she is back at tanzhaus nrw with danses vagabondes. Those works have toured extensively, nationally and internationally Louise has received many prestigious awards during her career.

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Creation: danses vagabondes
Choreography & performance: Louise Lecavalier
Choregraphy assistant & rehearsal director: France Bruyère
Lighting & video design: Jean-François Piché
Video: Marlene Millar
Music: Dawn of Midi, The Black Dog, Antoine Berthiaume, Kiasmos, Nils Frahm, Trentmoller, Nick Cave
Music consultant: Patrick Lamothe
Artistic consultant: François Blouin
Costume production: Yso
Production & Technical Director: François Marceau
Production: Fou glorieux
Co-production: tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf, Hellerau Dresden, FTA Montréal, National Arts Center Ottawa

The Fou Glorieux company is supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Montreal Arts Council.

With the generous support of the Québec Government Office in Berlin.