Louise Lecavalier
| Louise Lecavalier | |
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Lecavalier performing in 2007
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| Born |
October 3, 1958 Montreal, Canada |
| Occupation | Dancer and Choreographer |
| Years active | 40 |
| Website | www |
| Former groups | Le Groupe Nouvelle Aire Pointépiénu La La La Human Steps |
| Dances | Contemporary dance |
Louise Lecavalier, OC (born October 3, 1958) is a Canadian dancer, known as one of the icons of Canadian contemporary dance.
Lecavalier was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She began her professional dance career at the age of eighteen when she joined Le Groupe Nouvelle Aire. It was there that she met Édouard Lock.
Lecavalier became Lock's main character and inspiration in his company La La La Human Steps. With her mane of platinum dreadlocks, her physical power and her mastery of the full-body barrel jump, which looks like a horizontal pirouette, her image was a signature for the company. She was the embodiment of Lock's frenetic and technically challenging androgynous aesthetic in works such as Human Sex (1985) and Infante, c'est destroy (1991).
She joined La La La Human Steps in 1981 for its production of Oranges and went on to perform in each of the company’s productions up until Salt in 1998.
In 1985, Louise Lecavalier became the first Canadian to win a Bessie Award in New York for her performance in Businessman in the Process of Becoming an Angel (1983). The London Times critic found Lock's "extravagant" play poor but stated that there were
She danced in Human Sex (1985), New Demons (1987), Infante, c'est destroy (1991) and finally, 2 (1995) and Salt (1998).
Lecavalier also participated in each of La La La’s major collaborations, including David Bowie’s Sound+Vision Tour in 1990 and Fame '90 music video, The Yellow Shark concerts, performed by Frank Zappa and Germany's Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Vienna in 1992, and the film Inspirations from director Michael Apted in 1996.
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