She has been working as an actor and dancer for 20 years. Among others, she has performed with Carbone 14, Pigeons International, Omnibus, Théâtre PAP, Théâtre Il-va-s’en-dire and Montreal Danse, touring in over 20 countries. She has appeared in several films, televised series, and for six years played a regular character on Québec's most popular sitcom, KM/H. She is also an active member of Momentum, one of Montreal’s renowned experimental theatre companies. In the fall of 2008, Rosita Laval won Best Actress at the MECCA awards for her role in the Imago Theatre production of The Baronness and the Pig. Her own creations include the critically acclaimed Les Filles de Séléné (1999-2001), a physical theatre piece for eight women performed in a convent, La Fête des Morts co-created with Céline Bonnier (2002-2004), a theatrical happening for eleven actors created and presented in a cemetery, (nominated in 2004 for Best Director and Best Production by the Académie Québéçoise du Théâtre) and Limbes/Limbo (2004) a co-creation with the dancer Lin Snelling inspired by the bilingual text of Nancy Huston as an homage to Samuel Beckett. Rosita Laval has also created six theatre solos. The Sadness Trilogy, (1999-2003) was created for the Edgy Women Festival at Studio 303 in Montreal and toured to Toronto, New York, and Florence. In 2005, she began the creation of The Madness Trilogy with Lapine-Moi (Rabbit-I) which was performed at Edgy Women in Montreal, Hysteria in Toronto, and Performance Mix Festival in New York. In October 2006, she was invited to perform two of her solos in Slovenia for the City of Women Festival, and at Ausland Art Space in Berlin. In 2006, she created and presented the second in this solo series: Cerveau fêlé 101 (Broken brain 101), which played at Edgy Women, Hysteria, Performance Mix and at the Montreal Fringe, for which she received the “Prix du Public” awarded by the TOHU (La Cité des Arts du Cirque). In October 2008, her new solo show, the final (and most complex) installation of The Madness Trilogy, Le Salon Automate, was presented for a three weeks sold-out run by Usine C as a co-production with Momentum. Rosita Laval is currently finishing the translation of Le Salon Automate into English, and will present “The Salon Automaton” as part of the 2009-2010 seasons at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto. Plans are being made for both a National and International tour of the show in both French and English. From 2001 - 2005, she wrote and directed five bilingual Vaudeville plays for the Sapphic and old -fashioned cabaret extravaganza, Le Boudoir. In addition, she is a very active and highly sought after emcee for cabarets and festivals of all sorts, and an artistic coach at the Cirque du Soleil. “Once you’ve seen anything by Rosita Laval you will search her out in this city for another fix of her particular insanity… Her vocal tics and self-inflicted violence are both empathetic and hilarious, and her use of props is increasingly ingenious.” - Dfdance Mtl (2006) “My personal highlight of this year, [Rosita Laval]’s over-the–top brilliant performance Lapine-moi. - Mirror Mtl (2005) “Rosita Laval delivered solo performances of inspired abandon” - New York Times, NY Best of the Year (2004) “Ms. Laval tackles loss and melancholy in her three part “Sadness Trilogy,” in clowning that is breathtaking in its funky audacity. She inhabits the stage with such fearlessness, adroit timing and quiet authority that she draws in the audience to live with her, in her performing.” - New York Times, NY (2004) “You really have to see her on stage to believe it. She is brilliant, inventive, powerful.” - Elle Québec (2002) Photo by Rollin Laporte |
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