La La La Human Steps Dance Company
La La La Human Steps Founder, Artistic Director and Choreographer, Édouard Lock, began his choreographic career at the age of 20, creating works from 1974 to 1979 for a variety of Canadian dance companies and institutions. In 1980 he founded La La La Human Steps around a three-week series of performances in L’Eskabel, a tiny Montréal theatre. Since then, the company has become one of the most internationally-acclaimed dance companies, earning this recognition by developing a unique choreographic language which has been constantly reinvented over its 29 year history.
La La La Human Steps has encouraged its dancers to question, define, renew, and restate performances based on sound technical fundamentals and a renewal of performance values that range from the hyper physical to the lyrical. The company has collaborated with institutions as varied as the Paris Opera and Frank Zappa.
Since the creation of Human Sex in 1985, La La La Human Steps international tours have brought its creations – New Demons (1987), Infante, c’est destroy (1991), 2 (1995), exaulté/Salt (1998), Amelia (2002), and Amjad (2007) - to the world’s major capitals in Europe, Asia and America. Over the last fifteen years, the company has also received co-production support from many international dance festivals to produce Édouard Lock’s creations, such as Theatre de la Ville de Paris, deSingel in Anvers, the Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, the ImPulsTanz in Vienna, the National Arts Centre in Canada, Festival Montréal en lumière, the LG Arts Centre in Seoul and the Saimata arts Foundation in Japan.
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