Sasha Waltz & Guests

Luc Dunberry was born in Valleyfield, Canada in 1969. He studied music at the Collège de Sherbrooke, drama at the UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) and dance at LADMMI (Les Ateliers de Danse Moderne de Montréal Inc.). As a member of the Groupe de la Place Royale he worked with various choreographers, among them Sasha Waltz who engaged him to dance for her company in 1996. Parallel to his work with Sasha Waltz & Guests, Luc Dunberry develops his own choreographies. In 1997, he presented the duet »No thanks I’m fine« and in 1998 the international success »anything else«. From 1999 to 2004, Luc Dunberry was a member of the dance ensemble at the Schaubühne as both dancer and choreographer. There he developed the dance production »The rest of you« together with Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola in 2000. His piece »Seriously« of 2001 involved six actors and two dancers. In 2002, Luc Dunberry, together with the choreographers Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet, developed the piece »d'avant«, giving guest performances at home and abroad (e.g. Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires, Tanzplattform Deutschland 2004, Düsseldorf) to great acclaim. In 2004, he shot his first film »(Left) between us« which played at the Video Dance Festival in Greece and the ReelDance Film Festival in Australia. His choreography »Don't we« had its première in 2005. His new film »just me may be« has been screened at Radialsystem V Berlin and at the Video Dance Festival in Greece in 2007. In the same year he was assistant choreographer for Sasha Waltz in »Roméo et Juliette« for the Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris. 2008 he choreographed »Mi-un ni d’eux» for PPS Danse (Montreal) and »Mond...Days» for the Tanztheater Osnabrück. In March 2009 his new piece »Aliens!» will be premiered in Berlin. Luc Dunberry dances in Sasha Waltz’ choreographies »Zweiland», »Allee der Kosmonauten», »Körper«, »noBody«, »insideout«, »Impromptus«, »Dido & Aeneas« and »Medea«.