Liz Vandal, Founder and designer
Liz Vandal began as a self-taught fashion designer, quickly gaining recognition for an approach where technical precision meets the poetry of movement. She has collaborated with Marie Chouinard, Margie Gillis, the Paris Opera, the Hong Kong Ballet, and the Grands Ballets Canadiens.
A specialist in costumes for extreme movement, she became a key creative at Cirque du Soleil (OVO, Viaggio, Sonor, Cosmos, Excentick). She designed over 3,000 costumes for the European Games closing ceremony in Baku (2015) and the opening ceremony costumes for the Lake Placid FISU World University Games.
Honored with the Hong Kong Dance Award and nominated for the Benois de la Danse, her work spans ballet, film, and music — including The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and the Backstreet Boys’ Black ’n Blue Tour.
As an educator and keynote speaker, Liz teaches and leads creative workshops in design, innovation, and team synergy with schools, institutions, and companies — passing on a culture of boldness, craft, and movement.
In 2026, she designs the costumes for Évangéline (Québecor), continuing a career defined by vision, innovation, and kinetic elegance.
Architect for the body in extreme movement, her costumes reach the ultimate goal of finding equilibrium between esthetics and technique. They are as beautiful as they are functional.
Complete List of projects
DANCE |
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| Back Street Boys | Black & Blue World Tour |
| LaLaLa Human Steps | Nouvelle Création (Édouard Lock) |
| Amjad | |
| Amélia | |
| Exaucé/Salt | |
| 2 | |
| Infante, C’est destroy | |
| Flak | S (José Navas) |
| Anatomies | |
| Adela me amor | |
| Perfume de Gardenias | |
| Sonata and… | |
| Abstraction | |
| One night only | |
| Bosquejo | |
| Luna Llena | |
| Marie Chouinard | Gymonpédies |
| Le Nombre d’Or Live | |
| Orphée et Eurydce | |
| bOdy_rEMIX_Goldberg | |
| Chorale | |
| Étude no.1 | |
| Le cri du Monde | |
| Des feux dans la nuit | |
| Le Sacre du Printemps | |
| Les 24 Préludes de Chopin | |
| Les Solos 1978-1998 | |
| Margie Gillis | Thread – Filliature |
| M Body 7 | |
| O’Vertigo | Étude#3 Pour Cordes et Poulies (Ginette Laurin) |
| Hong Kong Ballet | Alice in Wonderland (Septime Webre) |
| Peter Pan | |
| Royal Winnipeg Ballet | Handmaid’s Tale (Lila York) |
| Kansas City Ballet | Wizard of OZ (Septime Webre) |
| Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal | Étude (Édouard Lock) |
| Slow Smoke (Kevin O’Day) | |
| Chez La Duchesse (Septime Webber) | |
| Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal | Circle Song (Sean Hounsel) |
| Entre-Deux (Dominique Dumais) | |
| National Ballet of Canada | One hundred words for snow |
| (Dominique Dumais) | |
| Alberta Ballet | Sans détour (Dominique Dumais) |
| Suite Dreams (Vladimir Angelov) | |
| Ballet British Colombia | A way inside (Dominique Dumais) |
| Petrushka | |
| Aspen Ballet | Sans Détour (Dominique Dumais) |
| American Repertory Ballet | A part between parts (Dominique Dumais) |
| Washington Ballet | Sleepy Hollow (Septime Webre) |
| Alice in Wonderland | |
| Oui/Non | |
| Journey home | |
| Carmen | |
| Juanita y Alicia | |
| Carmina Burana | |
| Rite of Spring (Trey McIntyre) | |
| Memphis Ballet | Dracula (Hazel Sabbath-Gower) |
| Montréal-Danse | Le ciel brûlant des heures (José Navas) |
| Kynesis Danse Society | In the blink of an eye (Paras Terezakys) |
| Sinha Danse | Loha (Roger Sinha) |
| Opéra de Paris | AndréAuria (Édouard Lock) |
| Nationaltheater Mannhein | Weather (Kevin O’Day) |
| Menschen wir Bumen nur Blumen | |
| Metamorphosen | |
| Tanz Ton Strom Ton Tanz | |
| Goldberg Variationen | |
| Blumen | |
| 8 Gedichte für Matilda Wesendonk | |
| Eine Stunde Zehn | |
| Brandenburg Concertos | |
| Topographicalayers | |
| Goldberg Variations | |
| Collective Sonatas (Dominique Dumais) | |
| Petrushka | |
| Stuttgart Ballet | Igor Poems (Kevin O’Day) |
| Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian | Le Sacre du Printemps (Marie Chouinard) |
| Göteborgs Operan | bOdy_rEMIX_Goldberg (Marie Chouinard) |
| Le Sacre du Printemps | |
| Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo | bOdy_rEMIX_Goldberg (Marie Chouinard) |
| Sao Paulo Companhia de Dança | The Seasons (Édouard Lock) |
| Arizona Ballet | Moving Movies (Nayon Iovino) |
| Dominique Dumais | The imprint of water |
| Dominique Porte | HORS-JE |
| Dévation | |
| Sept gouttes et des poussières | |
| Exit | |
| Bill Coleman | Banff Project |
| Gros Morne Project Terre Neuve | |
| The Near Room | |
| Nancy Leduc | Seule sur un pouf |
| Benjamin Hatcher | Razzia – Arab World Festival |
| École Supérieure de Ballet du Québec | Seascape |
| La boîte à joujoux – Montreal OSM Event | |
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CIRCUS |
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| Cirque du Soleil | OVO |
| Viaggio | |
| Sonor | |
| Cosmos | |
| Exentrick | |
| Cirque Éloize | ID Évolution |
| Le Géant 2023 | |
| CirKopolis | |
| Daphnis et Chloé – Montreal OSM Event | |
| Silencio – Paris Circus Festival | |
| Les 7 doigts de la main | Tryptique – Anne et Samuel |
| Kyle Driggs | Jonglerie |
FILMS |
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| L’équipe Spectra | Amélia (Edouard Lock) |
| Studio Max Films | La turbulence des fluides (Manon Briand) |
| A & E | The Lathe of Heaven (Philip Haas) |
| Cinéquanon Films | Élégie (Bernar Hébert) |
| Esquisse du nouveau monde | |
| La nuit du déluge | |
| Le petit Musée Vélasquez | |
| Le collectionneur de gamme | |
| Sanctum (Lisa Cochrane) | |
THEATER |
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| Théâtre Au cœur de la forêt | L’étrange songe d’une nuit d’été |
| (John Strasberg) | |
| Monument National | Man Inc. (Jacques Languirand) |
| Théâtre de Quat-Sous | Les fleuves Profonds (José Navas) |
| Tango Libre | Vies Privées (Louise Boisvert) |
| Vieux-Port de Montréal | Pied de Poule (Marc Drouin) |
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OPERA |
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| Chants Libres | Alternate Vision (Pauline Vaillancourt) |
| L’Archange | |
| LuLu Le Chant souterrain (Wajdi Mouad) | |
MUSICAL |
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| Québecor | Évangéline (Jean-Jacques Pillet) |
MULTIMEDIA |
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| Pixel System inc | Le Pixman (Daniel Langlois) |
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WORLD MUSIC |
Émeline Michel |
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN |
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| Insectarium de Montréal | Papillons en Liberté 2013 |
UNIFORMS |
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| Palais des Congrès | Corporate uniform accessories |
| Insectarium of Montréal | Papillons en Liberté 2013 |
| Papillons en Liberté 2014 | |
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LECTURES – COACHINGS |
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| Oxylane – Décathlon France | Design coaching Tribord company |
| (Hendaye, France) | |
| Creativity & Innovation lecture ( Lille, France) | |
| Design coaching Domyos company (Lille , France) | |
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| Groupe Desjardins | Lecture (Montreal) |
| Creative Workshop (Montreal) | |
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| Banff Center for Arts & Creativity | Creative workshop (Alberta) |
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EVENTS |
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| International Game Technology | Avatar Global Gaming Expo (Vegas) |
| Quartermania | |
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| Fivecurrents | Baku 2015 European Games Closing Ceremony(Azerbaïjan) |
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| FISU | Lake Placid University Games 2023 (New York) |
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AWARDS |
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| Benois de la Danse | Nomination – Best Costume Design |
| – Alice in Wondeland | |
| Hong Kong Dance Awards | Best Costume Design |
| – Alice in Wonderland | |
| Festival Mondial du Cirque de | Best Costume Design – Cyr Wheel |
| Demain | |
| Metro DC Dance Award | Excellence Price – Costume Creation |
| – Journey Home | |
| INCA Event | 1st Price live creation- Venise Carnaval |
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| Prix Génie | Finalist – Best Costume Design – La nuit du |
| déluge film | |
| INCA Event | 1st Price live creation – Opera Mme Butterfly |
| costume | |
| Elle-Québec Award | Jury’s 1st price – Costume Creation |
| – A Dancing Dress |