Louis Laberge-Côté

Originally from Quebec City, Louis Laberge-Côté started studying dance, music, and theatre at a very young age.  A graduate of both L’École de Danse de Québec and The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, he joined Toronto Dance Theatre in 1999, and he danced with the company for eight seasons, under the artistic direction of Christopher House.  “One of Toronto Dance Theatre’s most admired company members” (The Globe and Mail), “the hardest working man in dance” (EYE Weekly) also enjoyed an exceptionally active career as a freelance artist, touring in North America, Europe, and Asia.  He has worked with some of Canada’s most renowned dance artists including Peggy Baker, Serge Bennathan, Peter Chin, Guillaume Côté, Robert Glumbeck, Maxine Heppner, Sasha Ivanochko, Yvonne Ng, Holly Small, and Michael Trent; and has appeared with companies such as Bouchardanse, the Chimera Project, CORPUS, the Danny Grossman Dance Company, DNA Theatre, Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, and Pro Arte Danza. 

In 2009, Laberge-Côté moved to Germany to join Kevin O’Day - Ballett Nationaltheater Mannheim as a soloist dancer, where he performed the works of Artistic Directors Kevin O’Day and Dominique Dumais and taught contemporary dance to the company on a regular basis.  His work has garnered him three Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for Outstanding Performance, and NOW Magazine named him “Toronto Dance’s Most Valuable Player” in 2006.   He is a co-founder of the collective 3M Dances, with whom he presented three different sold-out productions in Toronto between 2002 and 2006.  An award-winning choreographer, his work has been described as a “triumph... with tremendous depth and subtext” (Classical 96.3FM) and a “wonderfully sophisticated jewel” (Die Rheinpfalz). 

Laberge-Côté was the Chair of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists - Ontario Chapter from 2005 to 2007 and is currently the Chair of the Independent Artists Standing Council at the Canadian Dance Assembly.

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