La La La Human Steps is no more

[volcanohunter]

The money has run out for La La La Human Steps. Édouard Lock has resigned, and the company has been dissolved after 35 years.

http://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/arts/la-la-la-human-steps-is-no-more-edouard-locke-announces

[sandik]

I saw this yesterday -- I am so sad. Lock and his dancers (especially Louise Lecavalier) exemplified the high-risk, maximum velocity choreography of the late 20th century.

[volcanohunter]

I prefered the earlier horizontal choreography to the work Lock did after he put his dancers on pointe. The latter was fetishistically vertical and stationary, and dancers only ever seemed to move from point A to point B by stopping what they were doing, walking heel first to another place on the stage, and then resuming their windmills.

I last saw Lecavalier on stage 2-3 years ago, and even in her mid-fifties she was still doing some jaw-droppingly crazy things. It's somehow comforting that she endures.

http://www.louiselecavalier.com/index_en.html

[sandik]

My memory of them (and of others, like Ginette Laurin) was that they were several feet off the ground most of the time. "jaw-droppingly crazy things" -- yup.