Stéphanie Landouer, Artistic Director of A Corps Perdu Dance Company, is a member of Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends since 2008. Since in NY, she has performed works by Sasha Spielvogel (Labyrinth Dance Theater), Sunhwa Chung (Ko-Ryo Dance Theater), Jana Hicks and Marijke Eliasberg (The Next Stage Project), Diane McCarthy, Oliver Steele, etc. She has also had the privilege to work with the British-German artist Tino Sehgal, performing for him at the New Museum, in “Instead of allowing some things to rise up to your face, dancing bruce and dan and other things,” a unique experience. Stéphanie’s choreography has been presented in France and in New York. She co- choreographed for Jazz company LAinsidanse in France. In August 2010, she founded A Corps Perdu Dance Company. The young company is having promising debuts, performing in many different venues such as SHARE: Chapter 2 and SHARE: Chapter 3 (City Center), Fertile Ground and the 5th Annual Green Space Blooms Festival (Green Space), The Lab Performance (Steps on Broadway), the 2011 :pushing progress Showcase Series (MMAC). A Corps Perdu Dance Company has also had the pleasure to be invited to join the Performance Project Showcase at Dance New Amsterdam, and will be part of the 2011 Dumbo Dance Festival (John Ryan Theater) and The Outlet Dance Project (Ground For Sculptures, NJ). In 2011, Stephanie’s choreography was commissioned by Dance New Amsterdam International Student Visa Program. Stéphanie has also served as a substitute teacher at Peridance Center (NYC) and Ballet Arts (NYC).

Teaching Schedule:

Open Contemporary Dance - Thursday 6:00 - 7:30pm

Class Descriptions:

Stéphanie’s idea in approaching the warm-up is to treat it as a movement phrase. Although the exercises are focusing on proper alignment and inner strength, they always involve the body as a whole in motion. The movement phrases, punctuated by dancing transitions and movement sequences, are made to allow the students to let go and to reveal their artistic sensibility while practicing their basic technique.

Stéphanie’s loose and flowy choreography often includes tension/release, momentum, spirals and off center challenges. Using the Laban principles of movement, her goal is to bring the dancer to explore how the movement can lead him to feel emotions and mutually use these emotions to deepen and nourish the movement itself - all in an encouraging, relaxed and fun environment. 

"My goal in class is to create an exchange between the students and myself. I am here to share my passion for dance and to give the students a nice and enjoyable break in their Life’s routine, no matter how old or young they are.

My class is a place to learn how to dance and how to trust themselves and others. It is also a place for students to discover their own limits and to go past them!

I aim to create an atmosphere that is encouraging and deprived of any judgment, to allow the students to feel free to experiment new things and to let go without holding things back. Eventually, they find more confidence in their dancing and can reach a place where they can fully enjoy dancing, no matter which level they are.”