Louis Laberge-Côté
dancer

Louis Laberge-Côté has been Assistant Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, School of Performance since July 2018. He is a 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 a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Choreography and ten other individual and ensemble nominations for Performance or Choreography. He is a triple KM Hunter Award nominee 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 holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the University of Plymouth (UK) and Transart Institute (USA). Laberge-Côté continues to be a sought-after interpreter and investigator of new dance creations.

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Louis danced in the duet version of Yang with Sahara Morimoto, and in the 2014 Nuit Blanche durational performance, The Perfect Word.