ABOUT

Lou Ditaranto

Lou is a french-norwegian dance artist based between Oslo (NO) and London (UK). 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).

Since acquiring her Bachelor in Arts from Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, where she worked with the likes of Vinicius Salles and Humanhood, she has toured with VERVE (2020) for her Master in Arts. During her time in the company she performed works by Botis Seva, Lali Ayguadé, Mari Carrasco and Douglas Thorpe, as well as for Barnaby Booth's The Light Project.

For the past years she has worked in various settings and locations, including outdoor spaces, theatres and galleries, for companies and choreographers such as Panta Rei Dance Theatre and Melissa Hough (NNB), Yaniv Cohen, Carl Aquilizan 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 deriving from her MA and praxis. She is fascinated by many things, some being surrealism, music, architecture, tension, biology, photography, adrenaline, physics, dreams, nature and 'the impossible'. These topics transcends into her research.

Her newest research How To Sit Like The Devil (derived from Ultrafiolett / UV) , in collaboration with composer Kristoffer Lislegaard, stems from her multicultural background. The research questions her sense of belonging, identity, attachment to pleasure, pain and longing, amongst the ongoing tipping point of our planet.

Lou is a curious and generous artist, enjoying to incorporate her other artistic senses into her research. Newly 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.