So Blue is the UK première of Louise Lecavalier's debut work as a choreographer, and comes to London's Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of a world tour on 2 July.
Dancer and former star of Édouard Lock's Canadian company La La La Human Steps, Louise Lecavalier was the first Canadian to win a Bessie Award for her performance in Businessman in the Process of Becoming an Angel (1983) and starred in Lock’s Human Sex (1985).
As well as dancing with Frank Zappa in The Yellow Shark concerts alongside the Ensemble Modern, the Frankfurt Alte Oper, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Konzerthaus, she has danced alongside David Bowie on his Sound+Vision Tour, and features in his Fame 90 music video.
An intensely personal work, So Blue begins with Lecavalier dancing solo, before evolving into a duet with Frederic Tavernini, a French classically-trained dancer (Paris Opera Ballet, Béjart Ballet Lausanne, William Forsythe).
Friday 7 July to the Purcell Room comes a new solo dance work by Australian choreographer Martin del Amo for dancer Paul White: Anatomy of an Afternoon, a re-imagining of Vaslav Nijinsky and the Ballets Russes 1912 ballet L'Après-midi d'un Faune (The Afternoon of a Faun).
Paul White is the recent winner of the Critics Circle National Dance Award for Outstanding Modern Performer for Meryl Tankard's The Oracle (Southbank Centre, May 2013).