Louis Laberge-Côte

Louis Laberge-Côté has been an Assistant Professor in the Performance Dance Program at Toronto Metropolitan University since July 2018. He is an active Toronto-based dancer, choreographer, teacher, and rehearsal director.

An acclaimed performer, he has danced nationally and internationally with over thirty companies and has been a full-time member of Toronto Dance Theatre (1999-2007) and the Kevin O’Day Ballett Nationaltheater Mannheim (2009-2011). He has created over eighty choreographic works, which have been presented and commissioned in Canada and abroad. His work has garnered him a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Choreography and ten other individual and ensemble nominations for Performance or Choreography.

He was nominated for the KM Hunter Award in 2014, 2015, and 2016 and has received several grants from all three levels of government, the Chalmers Foundation, the Metcalf Foundation, the Laidlaw Foundation, and the Dancer Transition Resource Centre. He joined the Board of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists – Ontario Chapter from 2004-2007, of which he became Chair in 2005. He has also sat as Chair of the Independent Artists Council at the Canadian Dance Assembly from 2011-2017, and serving as Vice-President for four years. He has also been the Chair of the Dance Committee at the Toronto Arts Council from 2013-2018. He is currently the President of Healthy Dancer Canada.

A sought-after pedagogue, he has taught classes and workshops across Canada for over three decades. He holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the University of Plymouth (UK). His research is centred on contemporary dance and somatic training. His writings have been published by the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, the International Journal of Arts Education, Choreographic Practices, The Dance Current, Recherches en danse, and the Conseil International de la Danse Virtual Library. Laberge-Côté continues to be a sought-after interpreter and investigator of new dance creations.