Legendary Louise Lecavalier returns to Vancouver with new solo Stations, at DanceHouse November 23 to 26
Fou glorieux artistic director and La La La Human steps alumna pushes her body to the edge, exploring fluidity, control, meditation, and obsession
Louise Lecavalier in Stations. Photo by Andre Cornellier
DanceHouse has hosted the extraordinary dancer and creator Louise Lecavalier twice before, and is bringing her back for its 15th anniversary season. As the choreographer and artistic director of Fou glorieux, Lecavalier explores the limits of the human body, taking risks to surpass those limits and unveiling the “more-than-human within the human”.
Lecavalier has been known for her superhuman movement skills for decades, ever since she joined Édouard Lock’s La La La Human Steps in 1981. She quickly rose through the ranks and became an iconic member of the company, starring in the notorious work Human Sex (1985).
The native Montrealer founded her own company, Fou glorieux, in 2006. In 2012 she choreographed her first full-length work, her solo So Blue, which won the Dora Mavor Moore Prize for Outstanding Production.
Her latest work, Stations, which premiered in Dusseldorf in early 2020, explores the primeval movements we call dance. In four stations—fluidity, control, meditation, and obsession—she presents a fiery solo that pushes her body to the edge, expressing something that is beyond words.
She is finding a balance between the desire to soar but also to stay anchored in the present. Four columns of light and four original musical arrangements correspond with the four stations, driving Lecavalier forward endlessly, like the changing of the seasons.
Stations will be co-presented by DanceHouse and SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs from November 23 to 26. The 60-minute piece will play at the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, at SFU Woodward’s.
Lecavalier has won many prestigious awards over the course of her career, including the Order of Canada, Dance Personality of the Year, the Prix de la danse de Montréal, the Governor General Performing Arts Award for lifetime achievement, and an honourary doctorate from l’Université du Québec à Montréal.
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