Louise Lecavalier

For Louise Lecavalier, working on something new in the studio is synonymous with rapture. Spending endless afternoons searching for movements, confronting doubt with curiosity and gradually discovering something. Dancing in the studio, at a distance from earlier works, leads her to the dancer she is today. danses vagabondes bears witness to these moments of freedom in which Lecavalier encounters something new: A dance that breathes and becomes tangible, a dance that speaks of itself and that at times becomes luminescent.

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.

Duration: 60 min.

 ‘So now [...] she is back with a bang and is being celebrated by the audience of Düsseldorf.’

Claudia Hötzendorfer, Rheinische Post, 06.12.2024 (translated in English by tanzhaus nrw, original version in German).