ALAN LAKE FACTORI(E)
MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONTEMPORARY DANCE
Alan Lake Factori[e] is a contemporary dance company based in Québec City that explores the hybridity of artistic languages through stage works, films, and site-specific creations. Led by choreographer, visual artist, and filmmaker Alan Lake, the company develops a distinctive aesthetic infused with symbolism and raw physicality. Its creations probe the interconnections between bodies, spaces, and life cycles.
It is one of the few companies from the Québec City region to achieve international recognition, with works presented in Belgium, Mexico, the United States, and beyond. Alongside its artistic pursuits, ALF plays an active role in its community by offering workshops, outreach programs, and residencies, thereby contributing to the vitality of dance on both local and international stages.
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Orpheus | S'abreuver
des volcans
Le cri des méduses
ORPHEUS | S'ABREUVER DES VOLCANS
SUMMARY - ORPHEUS | S'ABREUVER DES VOLCANS
2025 | 7 artists on stage | 70 min.
Alan Lake delves into the heart of the human experience with his latest work, a poignant foray into the myth of Orpheus that testifies to the redemptive power of art.
The myth of Orpheus has inspired artists since ancient times—sculptors, painters, poets, musicians and filmmakers. Choreographer Alan Lake follows in their footsteps with one of his signature symbolist tales. Subtly interweaving myth and modernity, this dance of light and shade explores the twists and turns of doubt, loss and, above all, life. In striking imagery that combines melody, movement, emotion and vulnerability, Lake constructs a supernatural atmosphere that oscillates between dream and reality. The work resonates as a powerful metaphor, reaffirming that the true essence of our humanity lies in facing the unknown.
LE CRI DES MÉDUSES
LE CRI DES MÉDUSES
2018 | 9 artists on stage | 65 min.
Bold, outrageous, and shocking, Alan Lake has created a work poised between fable and allegory. This polymorphic work—enriched with visual art —reinforces Lake’s status as a significant Canadian artist. Inspired by Théodore Géricault’s painting, The Raft of the Medusa, the choreographer proposes a vision of a humanity adrift. Le cri des méduses promises a startling, artistic shock. The show is an immersion in a complex tableau vivant, a post- apocalyptic universe where human beings struggle and unite. Carts of bodies tangled in improbable heaps follow uprisings where the ground slips away. Combining a fiery language and a mastery of group work, Alan Lake navigates between suggestion and reality without being able to distinguish their limits and contours.