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 Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques for her piece De l'avant invariablement, is also a teacher Anne Lopez' lessons, « Exploration in movement », on the Sciences Po website 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
Le Grand Direct (2009) Potlatch Organic Pixels Vox populi Petite ligne La Ligne jaune
Films 10 Petits DanseursReleased on France 3 Sud television channel in december, 2000 Les Géographes, ceux qui écrivent l'espace
Web Menace-TVmenace-tv , the website
Concert Le Concert Insolite (Frédéric Tari & François Lopez)
Distribution Except their country of origin, the Gens du Quai showed their work: in (Meeting, during the "Tanec Dnes" festival in Banská Bystrica), in (Révoltes, during the European young artists biennale in Sarajevo, July 2001), in : 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 (Celui d'à côté, premiere in Rio de Janeiro, October 2015).
References
Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at :fr:Les Gens du Quai; see its history for attribution.
External links The company's website