Biography
|
"Louise Moyes integrates dance, humour, and a stunning range of accents to bring her characters to life"
|
| Louise Moyes performs one-woman 'docu-dances': humourous, multi-disciplinary, bilingual shows created from documentary-style interviews. |
Growing up a Newfoundlander of Cockney parentage who later lived in Quebec, Louise developed a fascination for accents,
gestures, and other distinguishing cultural features. While travelling she records conversations with ordinary
people and edits a script from the recordings, playing up to 20 different characters in a performance. Her
quirky vignettes are both funny and biting.
Men, women, old, young, Louise learns the accents of those she has interviewed, telling
their stories and through them telling the life, politics and history of a place. The collapse of the fisheries in Newfoundland, losing a son on the Lower North Shore of Quebec, quitting smoking on the south coast of Newfoundland, the Quebec Icestorm, life in
French Newfoundland, racism in England, the
experiences of a Canadian in New York: Louise takes on the people around her.
These rare glimpses into private lives juxtapose events and characters, giving way to contradictory and often funny stories. Louise's experiences as a dancer and performance artist mould each story into a unique presentation of contemporary life. Louise studied at studio 303 in Montreal and has performed throughout Canada and in Europe, Iceland and Brazil. |