Les Gens du quai

Les Gens du Quai
General information
Name Les Gens du Quai
Year founded 1993 (1993)
Founders Anne Lopez & François Lopez
Website gensduquai.org
Idiots Mais Rusés (stage set)

Les Gens du Quai (in English People of the Quay) is a Contemporary dance company founded in 1993 in Montpellier, France.

It is directed by its co-founders, Anne Lopez (choreographer, dancer) and François Lopez (composer, performer), who are brother and sister.

Besides their choreographic creations, performances and concerts, the Gens du Quai offer workshops in schools, medico-educational or psychiatric institutions.

Anne Lopez, who received in 2004 the prize of the new choreographic talent of the French Authors and Playwrights Union for her piece De l'avant invariablement, is also a teacher[1] and a lecturer.

Works

Choreographic creations

  • Paradox (2016)
  • Trident (2016)
  • Celui d'à côté (2015)
  • Comment j'ai réussi à ne pas aplatir mon mari (2015)
  • Miracle (2013)
  • Mademoiselle Lopez (solo, 2012)
  • Feu à volonté (2010)
  • Duel (2009)
  • La Menace (2008)
  • Idiots mais Rusés (2007)
  • Face à vous (2005)
  • De l'avant invariablement (2004)
  • Litanies (2002)
  • De l'autre (solo, 2002)
  • Révoltes (2000)
  • Écoute œnone (solo, 1999)
  • L'Invité (1999)
  • Meeting (1998)

Performances

Anne Lopez et François Lopez
  • Le Grand Direct (2009)
  • Potlatch
  • Organic
  • Pixels
  • Vox populi
  • Petite ligne
  • La Ligne jaune

Films

  • 10 Petits Danseurs[2]
  • Les Géographes, ceux qui écrivent l'espace[2]

Web

Concert

  • Le Concert Insolite (Frédéric Tari & François Lopez)

Distribution

Except their country of origin, the Gens du Quai showed their work:

References

  1. ↑ (in French) Anne Lopez' lessons, « Exploration in movement », on the Sciences Po website
  2. 1 2 Released on France 3 Sud television channel in december, 2000
  3. ↑ menace-tv, the website

Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at fr:Les Gens du Quai; see its history for attribution.

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