Marseille

Luah Marques

Creations

Pieces for façades, streets and dance floors, with Les Oiseaux Perchés.

Vertical Runway

A tailored show

A dancer in billowing yellow fabric hangs on a building façade above a red carpet
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The Vertical Runway reinvents architecture by bringing together dance, theatre, fashion and public space.

Inspired by the energy of cities, fashion and film festivals, and the art of live performance, Luah Marques presents a show where the façade becomes the stage for a parade, with models, artists and amateurs moving vertically: a bold, joyful and sublime spectacle.

Built to turn reality upside down and give the audience an immersive experience, with quirky, funny and captivating characters, the Vertical Runway plays with the codes of fashion, celebrates diversity, creates new narratives and deepens the dialogue between dance, architecture and performance.

Company
Cie Les Oiseaux Perchés

ALTO

Les Oiseaux Perchés, in creation

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ALTO brings together vertical dance, contemporary dance, hip hop and live music. Created by Les Oiseaux Perchés with choreographic artists Julien Rossin and Luah Marques and musician Boris Vassallucci, the piece explores the meeting of body and architecture, through dance on the ground and in the air, and through music. Suspended in space, the performers redraw façades and reveal new poetic and sensitive dimensions of the place.

Duration
25 minutes
On stage
3 artists
Setting
In situ, on a façade
Partners
Ville d’Aubagne, Pôle 164, Centre d’art contemporain Les Pénitents Noirs, Théâtre Comoedia, Cie Ex Nihilo, Yes We Camp (Coco Velten)

Où l’On Danse

Dance workshop and evening with a DJ set

An experience around movement, sound and the culture of the dance floor: a free dance lab for all levels, followed by a DJ set to try the new moves from your repertoire.

Mixing techniques and concepts, Luah Marques leads a workshop of about 45 minutes, full of games and tools for dancers, even the least experienced. No codes of a single technique: the invitation is made, so the moon party goes on. Then the dance floor is ready for the live DJ sets.

The Où l’On Danse workshops orchestrated by Luah Marques have transformed my life. They released a creativity in my body that was buried very deep. A puissante transformation. Words are not enough to express the gratitude I feel.

Lu’u, workshop participant

Pulse

Les Oiseaux Perchés, for the street

Pulse performed in a city square, a musician at a live set-up in the foreground

A dance and music creation for the street, 2024/25.

Created and performed by
Luah Marques, Julien Rossin and Matthieu Fabre
Supported by
Klap Maison pour la danse, Marseille, and Théâtre de l’Olivier, Istres