Les Gens du quai

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)
• 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

• Menace-TV^[3]

Concert

• Le Concert Insolite (Frédéric Tari & François Lopez)

Distribution

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

• in  Slovakia (Meeting, during the "Tanec Dnes" festival in Banská Bystrica),
• in  Bosnia and Herzegovina (Révoltes, during the European young artists biennale in Sarajevo, July 2001),
• in  Bulgaria :
  • Duel, for the 2014 Black Box International Festival in Plovdiv,
  • Le Concert insolite, during the 2015 Black Box International Festival,
  • Comment j'ai réussi à ne pas aplatir mon mari, for the same festival's opening,
• in  Brazil (Celui d'à côté, premiere in Rio de Janeiro, October 2015).

External links

• The company's website

References

1. ↑ (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.