So Blue - T666116709A high-voltage, radical, raw contemporary dance piece by the celebrated Canadian dancer Louise Lecavalier. From 1981 to 1998, Lecavalier was the star of of ?douard Lock's acclaimed company La La La Human Steps. She has worked with David Bowie on his Sound and Vision tour, Frank Zappa. Melody Maker described her as 'the most tragically brilliant dancer alive today.' Lecavalier has choreographed her first show entirely by herself, an intensely personal work called So Blue. It comes to London's Southbank Centre as part of a world tour. So Blue moves through vivid obsessive sequences of movement inspired by simple everyday gestures. The piece is performed to DJ Mercan Dede's fast-paced, intensely rhythmical soundtrack, which produces waves that ripple through the bodies of the dancers. Louise Lecavalier and Frederic Tavernini examine spontaneity and speed to expose the laws of the human body and its limitations. | |
| 2 Jul 14 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L675737204 |
Children + A Few Minutes of Lock - T0660013779Making her first ever visit to the New Territories Festival, Lecavalier presents her recent double bill of duets. The first, Children, conceived by choreographer Nigel Charnock, the unrepentant enfant terrible of British physical theatre, is a playful take on the heaven and hell of a couple where the fireworks are non-stop. In A Few Minutes of Lock, Lecavalier plunges back into her former accomplice Édouard Lock’s extreme, incandescent style of dance. Eleven years after she left La La La, she is spurred by the challenge of its physicality and by the desire to find out “what the body remembers.” Set to the incantatory music of Iggy Pop, A Few Minutes of Lock features three updated duets – excerpts from 2 and Salt – that distil the sheer adventure, intimacy and passion of these pieces. | |
| 8 Mar 11 | The Tramway, Glasgow :: V621 listing details L0727983449 |
