Louise Lecavalier

T666116709

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Archive :: production:T666116709, dance or ballet:S211253596, venue:V423

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So Blue

A 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. Queen Elizabeth Hall