COCO VELTEN, MarseilleVertical dance on the studio wall
A Brazilian choreographer in Marseille
Luah Marques trained from a young age in classical, contemporary and hip hop dance. Today she fuses vertical dance, hip hop and contemporary dance to invent new ways of experiencing movement.
Co-director of Les Oiseaux Perchés, founder of Où l’On Danse.
She makes people dance.
Watch the film Vertical Runway, Les Oiseaux Perchés
Vertical Runway
ALTO
Pulse
Où l’On Danse
It doesn’t take a stage to dance.
But Luah began vertical dance in 2014, with Cia Base in São Paulo, 96 metres up a façade.
Since 2018 she has taught it to children, students, prisoners and professional dancers.
ADN, a new creation of celestial art for Transe Express, as performer
2024Publicité, an advertising project with photographer David Dollmann for Haize Project
2022/23Vol Éphémère, a vertical dance duo on a façade with Les Têtes Bêches, with musicians perched or not
2022Groupe Miroir, choreographer for young people followed for three years by Cie Vol Plané
2021 to 2023Topologie Mouvementée, with Julien Dégrémont, directed by Christine Fricker for Cie Itinerrances
2020Jouer dans le Vide, vertical dance performer and creator in the company’s first piece
2020Caelesti, for the exhibition of the same name at the Port des Créateurs in Toulon
2019/20Destinations by Wilfried Ohouchou, contemporary dance and hip hop with Cie Co-incidanse
2015 to 2018Cia Base, four years of vertical dance, with a show 96 metres up at the Centro Cultural Fiesp
2013 to 2016Cia Anacã, modern jazz in São Paulo with Edy Wilson and Helô Gouvêa
Garopaba
São Paulo
Barcelona
Marseille
A dance is never made by one body. Les Oiseaux Perchés is Luah and Julien Rossin; ALTO adds the music of Boris Vassallucci, Pulse the music of Matthieu Fabre.
Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment. Erol Ozan