louise

I first encountered Louise Lecavalier in the mid-90s, when dance for video was becoming its own genre (vs. recorded live performances) and I was hungrily scrounging around for as much info I could find about choreographers working on the N. American - European circuit. I remember the first time I saw a video of La La La Human Steps: her strength, her fearlessness .. in some ways she seems more like an icon made flesh than a regular human. I never saw her/them live, alas, but she has always held a place among the collection of amazing dance moments that lives in my brain.

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

From Wikipedia:
Louise Lecavalier (born 1958) is a Canadian dancer, known as one of the icons of Canadian contemporary dance. Lecavalier was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She began her professional dance career at the age of eighteen when she joined Le Groupe Nouvelle Aire. It was there that she met Édouard Lock. Lecavalier became Lock's muse in his company La La La Human Steps. With her mane of platinum dreadlocks, her physical power and her mastery of the full-body barrel jump, which looks like a horizontal pirouette, her image was a signature for the company. She was the perfect embodiment of Lock's frenetic and technically punishing androgynous aesthetic in works such as Human Sex (1985) and Infante, c'est destroy (1991).