ABOUT

Lou is a french-norwegian dance artist based in Oslo (NO). She works freelance as a performer, choreographer, facilitator and teacher. She recently joined the team of Punchdrunk for their London-based immersive production The Burnt City (2023).

In 2020 she acquiring her Master in Arts, where she toured with pieces by Botis Seva, Lali Ayguadé and more for VERVE (2020). During her time at Northern School in Contemporary Dance, where she also holds her Bachelor in Arts, she worked both as apprentice and professionally for Barnaby Booth.

For the past years she has worked in various settings and locations, including outdoor spaces, theatres and galleries, for companies and choreographers such as Geir Hytten, Hege Haagenrud, Panta Rei Dance Theatre / Melissa Hough (NNB) and Yaniv Cohen in Norway, and Extended Play Dance in London.

As well as performing, Lou enjoys creating her own works. Most recently she has performed and created her own solos. Her passion for nature is key for her research, where she engages with terms such as ecology and climate change, and its relation to the body. She is fascinated by many things, some being surrealism, music, architecture, dreams, geosciences, nature and 'the impossible'. These topics transcends into her research.

Lou is a curious and generous artist, that enjoys incorporating her other artistic senses into her research. Having investigated a method named Outlining with Aquilizan, Engebretsen and Meløe, she continues to explore the potential of drawing and writing in relation to movement and choreography. A continuous research where she currently looks at developing poetic and academic writings.