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Louise Lecavalier: Danses Vagabondes – part witchy raver, part manic pixie dream grandmother
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Louise Lecavalier: Danses Vagabondes – part witchy raver, part manic pixie dream grandmother

The Guardian·Lyndsey Winship·about 1 month ago
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Sadler’s Wells East, London At 67, the mercurial Lecavalier is in the I’ll-do-whatever-I-want phase of her career, choreographing solos that are worlds away from cosy retirement Louise Lecavalier is known for dancing with David Bowie (on his Sound + Vision tour and Fame 90 video) and for being the face of Canadian dance company La La La Human Steps in the 1980s and 90s. She’s also known for being contemporary dance’s most athletic, acrobatic performer, hurtling through the air like a flying bullet, launching into barrel jumps, corkscrewing on a horizontal axis. She’s always been an exceptional dancing body, and that still holds true at the age of 67, where Lecavalier seems to have entered the uncompromising, I’ll-do-whatever-I-want phase of her career, choreographing her own solos that are worlds away from any idea of cosy retirement. Lecavalier comes scampering backwards on stage, dressed in long coat and hood (druid vibes).…

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