Alexandra "Spicey" Landé

A leading figure in hip-hop dance in Québec, Alexandra “Spicey” Landé has over 20 years of experience, including 10 as a choreographer. She founded the Bust a Move Festival (2005–2015), a major street dance event in Canada. The symbiotic relationship she maintains with hip-hop culture through her choreographic work with her company Ebnflōh is the very essence of her artistic signature.

Alexandra “Spicey” Landé began her career as an independent choreographer in 2008, the year she presented Retrospek at MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), a pioneering work featuring nine performers. The piece earned her the RIDEAU–Entrées en scène Loto Québec grant in 2009 and was presented by some 20 presenters across Québec between 2008 and 2010.

In 2010, she created her second full-length work, Rénézance, presented by Tangente and performed multiple times in Montréal. In 2011, she served as an urban dance coach for Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour and appeared on Radio-Canada’s show Ils dansent with Nico Archambault. She also taught at the École nationale de cirque de Montréal. During these same years, the Bust a Move Festival (2005–2015), which she founded in Montréal and co-presented with La Tohu, grew to become the largest street dance competition in Canada. Spanning four days, Bust a Move drew more than 2,500 spectators and 300 dancers aged 16 to 40 each year, with judges from Europe, the United States, and beyond. The event strongly inspired a new generation of dancers.

In 2015, she founded the dance company Ebnflōh, developing a choreographic language rooted in both the origins and the evolution of hip-hop. At the end of 2015, she premiered the company’s first creation, Complexe R, at MAI, followed in 2019 by In-Ward, a work for six performers developed with the support of major partners (CCOV, Danse Danse, Agora de la danse, among others) and presented at MAI’s gallery from January 16 to 20, 2019.