Louisjoined Maxine's ongoing research during "Nine Bronze Pieces" in 2002.
The 5-year Memory Project became a catalyst for their upcoming piece
"RAM". Louis returns to Tornoto after 2 years with Kevin O'Day at the Mannheim Ballet Theatre. He has appeared with CORPUS, the Chimera Project, the Danny
Grossman Dance Company, DNA Theatre, Fougère Dance, and the Newton
Moraes Dance Theatre. and with choreographers Serge Bennathan, Nova
Bhattacharya, Darcey Callison, Roberto Campanella, Peter Chin, Natasha
Gascho, Maxine Heppner, Sasha Ivanochko, Allen Kaeja, Susan Lee,
Hiroshi Miyamoto, Sharon Moore, Shawn Newman, Yvonne Ng, Keiko
Ninomiya, Lincoln Shand, Holly Small, Santee Smith, Heidi Strauss,
Darryl Tracy, Michael Trent, and Marvin Vergara, as well as being a TDT
dancer for 8 seasons with a nomination for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for
Outstanding Performance in an Ensemble, in Christopher House's Severe
Clear. His choreography has been at the Guelph Contemporary Dance
Festival; the KalaNhidi Festival; the dance festival: made in
canada/fait au canada; Ryerson Dances; The School of Toronto Dance
Theatre; TILT sound + motion; Toronto Dance Theatre; and the Toronto
International Dance Festival. In 2003 he received the Paula Citron
Award for Best Choreography for Futari en trois couleurs,
co-choreographed with Keiko Ninomiya (Toronto fringe festival of
dance). He has played in five different Bravo! Fact film productions,
was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance
in Heaven (choreography: Sasha Ivanochko 2007), and NOW Magazine called
him the “Dance Most Valuable Player” in Toronto 2006. In 2007-08 he was
faculty at Ryerson University Dance program and Artist-in-Residence at
the Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre.
