Louise Moyes' “Florence” July 29, 2010

http://www.storytellingstjohns.ca/events.html#

“Florence” recreates the life of lively and heartbreakingly funny storyteller, musician and dancer Florence Leprieur, aged 93, from Black Duck Brook (l'Anse à Canard), Newfoundland. Through Florence's stories in both French and English we see the Port-au-Port peninsula, on the west coast of the province.

Research, choreography and performance by Louise Moyes. Louise Moyes performs one-woman 'docu-dances': humourous, multi-disciplinary, bilingual shows created from documentary-style interviews. Growing up a Newfoundlander of Cockney parentage who later lived in Quebec, Louise developed a fascination for accents, gestures, and other distinguishing cultural features. While travelling she records conversations with ordinary people and edits a script from the recordings, playing up to 20 different characters in a performance. Her quirky vignettes are both funny and biting. Louise studied at studio 303 in Montreal and has performed throughout Canada and in Europe, Iceland and Brazil.

http://www.docudance.com/