Dulcinea Langfelder & Co. exists, since 1985, to create and to tour works that break disciplinary and cultural barriers, in order to communicate on a profound level with a large and varied audience.
In order to touch our audience with the content of the work, the form is as varied and unpredictable as the human spirit. In this way, acting, singing and interaction with projected images joins the art of movement. The innovative quality of the work is found in the juxtaposition and the surprising integration of the elements that compose the work.
Dulcinea studied dance for much of her life in New York, then mime with the master, Étienne Decroux, in Paris. She has studied theatre with Eugenio Barba and Yoshi Oida (long time colleague of Peter Brook). She came to Montreal in 1978 to work with the troupe, Omnibus, then briefly with Carbone 14.
She founded her company in 1985, and has created full length, multidisciplinary works that have
toured extensively in four continents. Vicious Circle (1985), The Lady Next Door (1989), Hockey! O.K.? (1991), Portrait of a Woman with Suitcase (1994) and Victoria (1999) are her major works (see following page). Quand le Vautour Danse (1997) written by Abla Farhoud, was a coproduction with
Le Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui in Montreal. Enjoying her artistic liberty, she works in theatre, in cinema, in music and in musical theatre as choreographer and/or actress. Her versatility and her inspired performances garnered her the Personnality of the Year in Dance, an honor given by the Montreal daily, La Presse, in 1990.
