Florence recreates the life of lively and heartbreakingly funny storyteller, musician and dancer Florence Leprieur, aged 93, from Black Duck Brook (l'Anse à Canard), Newfoundland. Through video, dance, and Florence's stories in both French and English we also see the Port-au-Port peninsula, on the west coast of the province. It is a place that is not well known by Newfoundlanders, let alone Canadians and beyond.
A bilingual one-woman show bringing together people Moyes interviewed throughout rural Newfoundland and Quebec. Oral histories told through dance, physical theatre, video and projected images. Taking in Strangers reveals surprising links between Quebec and Newfoundland and juxtaposes their unique senses of humour and place. Moyes plays 20 different people in their own words and accents, with their own gestures.
Collaboration with world-reknowned radio documentarian Chris Brookes; a sound piece on the cod moratorium’s 10th anniversary. Moyes choreographs to the piece as score. Thinking was supported by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council (NLAC) and a Canada Council for the Arts travel grant. Performed St. John’s Festival of New Dance, Cape St. Mary’s, and Studio 303, Montreal.
Stories collected on subways and in streets of New York, seen through the eyes of a Canadian.
Dance to live guitar improvisation by Wallace Hammond, other music by UAKTI (Brazil). Presented at the Newfoundland Festival of New Dance. Canada Council supported.
Modern-day characters and Jacques Cartier meet in a story-telling dancing blend to paint a full, funny and poignant picture of that place which 'ought not to have existed.' Mixes bilingual text taken from public and private reactions to changing life in Newfoundland with traditional Newfoundland dance. Rhonda Pelley, Jody Richardson, Figgy Duff, Potato Bug, Emile Benoit, Lori Clarke and Catherine McCausland collaborators. Performed Montreal Fringe, Studio 303, Sound Symposium, Eastern Edge Gallery, Newfoundland Festival of New Dance, Dances for a Small Stage (T.O). Canada Council funded.
A Newfoundlander, a Quebecoise and a Cockney meet on Duckworth Street in St. John's in this extraordinary story of the ordinary event of walking the dog. Text and choreography by Louise Moyes. Music by Twangin' Dwayne Eddy and UAKTI. Performed Vancouver's Dancing on the Edge, Studio 303, Centaur Theatre Cabaret, and Tangente Montreal, Nfld Festival of New Dance and fFIDA, Toronto.
