La La La Human Steps

'Amjad' at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre
By Kate Snedeker
February 13, 2008 -- Edinburgh Festival Theatre
For his latest La La La Human Steps production, Edouard Lock has taken the barebones essence of two classic ballets, "Swan Lake" and "Sleeping Beauty" and filtered them through his unique choreographic style to come up with the fascinating, if overlong, "Amjad".
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'Amjad' at Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham
by David Mead
February 5, 2008 -- Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham, UK
Memories, says choreographer Edouard Lock, “always create an interesting tension in a theatre.” “Swan Lake” and “The Sleeping Beauty” are two ballets that pretty much everyone thinks they know something about, and has some sort of association or recollection of, even if they don’t really know where those memories originate.
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'Amelia' at BAM, NY
by Cecly Placenti
February 4, 2005 -- Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
If it is at all possible to set a stage on fire with lightning-fast pointe work and unbelievably quick partnering sequences, Montreal-based La La La Human Steps would be the company to do it.
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'Amelia' at Teatro Argentina, Rome
By Patrizia Vallone
October 26, 2002 -- Teatro Argentina, Rome, Italy
Another dance event of this year’s Romaeuropa Festival was Amelia, produced by the Canadian company La La La Human Steps. This show was sold out, like all the other ones presented at the Festival, which confirms the Roman public’s great interest in contemporary dance.
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Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault
'Joe' at Sadler's Wells, London

Feature by Jeni Rose
October 2004 -- Sadler's Wells, London
Rhythm is a simple tool in the creation of a dance work and provides countless possibilities in terms of movement dynamics, the structure and climax, and the relationship between dancers. Two shows immediately spring to mind when discussing rhythm, Riverdance and Stomp.
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Review by Julia Skene-Wenzel
October 2004 -- Sadler's Wells, London
Urban alienation, its effect on the individual and the loneliness within a crowd are all central and re-occurring themes since the impact of the industrial revolution on mankind. Modernism, as well as Post-modernism, has given rise to countless depictions of its reality. Twenty-one years after its creation, the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perrault introduces ‘Joe’ to British audiences. Hailed as a ‘cult-classic’, it portrays the average ‘Joe’ within the city mass.
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