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Artist
Brice Leroux (BE)
Brice Leroux (b. 1974) graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Lyon in 1992. While there he created his First Solo for which he received a prize for best contemporary dancer at the Paris International Dance Competition and the Gold Medal of the city of Paris. In 1992 he was awarded a scholarship by the American Dance Festival in North Carolina and completed his training in New York at the renowned studios of Trisha Brown and Merce Cunningham.
In 1994 he changed course when he moved to Brussels to dance for Rosas. He stood out in such performances as Amor constante, más allá de la muerte and Toccata. Three years later Brice Leroux decided to give up this work and devote himself to the study of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the University of Paris VIII. In his choreographic work, Brice Leroux has undoubtedly been influenced by his experience with Rosas and his training as a musicologist. The analytical precision and compositional principles of his work make it possible to describe them as scores.
In the meantime he worked with David Hernandez, George Alexander Van Dam (violinist in the Ictus Ensemble), Sarah Chase, Jean-Luc Ducourt and others. Here too we find some of the foundations of his later work, in which structured improvisation was an important component. His work balances between mathematical precision and unlimited creativity. His inspiration is derived directly from the science of quantum mechanics. His fascination for repetitive patterns and infinite looped series of movements confront the spectator with micro-layers of perception and enhance the imagination.
Continuum npo was founded in Brussels in 1999; the solo of the same name opened at Klapstuk. He also presented the first performances of Arms and Steps, for six PEP students. Gravitations-duo with David Hernandez and music by Thierry De Mey opened in 2000 at the Sommer Szene Festival. Quasar-quator was performed at the dans@tack festival in Kortrijk (2002) and at the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes (2004). In Pièce pour bras, made for the 2006 KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, Brice Leroux took an abstract approach to a single limb and thus developed a stylistic idiom or, let’s say, a piece of calligraphy for arms.
In 1994 he changed course when he moved to Brussels to dance for Rosas. He stood out in such performances as Amor constante, más allá de la muerte and Toccata. Three years later Brice Leroux decided to give up this work and devote himself to the study of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the University of Paris VIII. In his choreographic work, Brice Leroux has undoubtedly been influenced by his experience with Rosas and his training as a musicologist. The analytical precision and compositional principles of his work make it possible to describe them as scores.
In the meantime he worked with David Hernandez, George Alexander Van Dam (violinist in the Ictus Ensemble), Sarah Chase, Jean-Luc Ducourt and others. Here too we find some of the foundations of his later work, in which structured improvisation was an important component. His work balances between mathematical precision and unlimited creativity. His inspiration is derived directly from the science of quantum mechanics. His fascination for repetitive patterns and infinite looped series of movements confront the spectator with micro-layers of perception and enhance the imagination.
Continuum npo was founded in Brussels in 1999; the solo of the same name opened at Klapstuk. He also presented the first performances of Arms and Steps, for six PEP students. Gravitations-duo with David Hernandez and music by Thierry De Mey opened in 2000 at the Sommer Szene Festival. Quasar-quator was performed at the dans@tack festival in Kortrijk (2002) and at the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes (2004). In Pièce pour bras, made for the 2006 KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, Brice Leroux took an abstract approach to a single limb and thus developed a stylistic idiom or, let’s say, a piece of calligraphy for arms.
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