First letter to Louise Bédard

Bonjour Louise,

hello, it’s your project partner from Barcelona, Roser.

I find it really special to start such an online conversation when knowing we’ll soon meet and work together. I‘ve been snooping around in your web site since summer, watching your videos and photos, reading your texts. Trying to figure out how you look like, how you like dancing and what you like getting inspired by. Feeling a bit like a spy ;)

I find this project a very nice and exciting initiative. I must admit this will be the first time I’ll direct someone I don’t know in advance. And it will be the first time as well I’ll direct someone who is more experienced than me. I guess you don’t work very often as a dancer for younger choreographers either, do you? :) This role exchange is indeed exciting. And it will eventually bring us some new ideas and some funny moments.

Thinking about this intercultural and inter-generational project we’re in, there are two aspects I think we share so far: that we both love dancing and that we don’t know each other yet. With time I’m pretty sure we’ll find many common ground.

To start with, I think we could do the exercise of making a simple presentation of ourselves, something like a portrait. I don’t mean exactly a description, cause that immediately suggests to me trying to get an outside point of view. But a kind of self-portrait. It has this personal choice on how we like to present ourselves to the other.

It can be very essential or very meticulous. It can be about our physical appearance or what we like when dancing or when letting our imagination fly or something we really feel identified with. Details and anecdotes are very welcome!

This is a first way of introducing each other, of presenting each other. Like a game.

As soon as I arrive to Montreal, I think we should go for a very warm coffee together before entering the studio! :)

Bon week-end.

Amicalment,

Roser

PS: As you can see, my English is much much better than my French...

www.roserlopez.com