Liz Vandal, Founder and designer
Liz Vandal began her illustrious career in 1988 as a self-taught fashion designer, bringing her creativity and originality to dance, circus, films and mega-events. She soon began collaborating with renowned choreographers and dance companies around the world, working with the likes of Marie Chouinard, Kevin O’Day, Margie Gillis, Paris Opera, and the Hong Kong Ballet.
As a specialist in costume design for extreme movements, Vandal also designed flamboyant and masterful costumes for Cirque du Soleil’s productions of OVO, Viaggio, Sonor, Cosmos, and Excentick.
Vandal explores multiple domains in show business, from producing costumes for The Backstreet Boys Black ‘n Blue Tour, to working with multi-national IGT in creating Avatar costumes which were approved by Jon Landau and 20th Century Fox.
After collaborating in many dance films and productions, Liz designed clothing for the feature film The Lathe of Heaven (Philip Haas) and Quebec’s La Turbulence des Fluides (Manon Briand).
As a design and innovation consultant, Liz offers services to French multinational company Oxylane (Decathlon), in the development of new and avant-garde sportswear.
One of her greatest career achievements was the creation of 3,000 costumes for the closing ceremony of the Baku 2015 European Games in Azerbaïjan.
Vandal’s on-going, 20 year long collaboration with Artistic director Septime Webre, continues to unfold with the new productions of The Wizard of Oz (Kansas City Ballet), Peter Pan, and Alice in Wonderland (Hong Kong Ballet). Vandal won the Award of Best Costume Design at the Hong Kong Dance Awards, and was also nominated at Les Benois de la Danse.
Architect of the body in extreme movement, her costumes reach the ultimate goal: “Equilibrium between esthetics and technique”, as beautiful as it is 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 Eurydice | |
| 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 | |
| OVertigo | 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) |
| (repeat) | |
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| American Repertory Ballet | A part between parts (Dominique Dumais) |
| Washington Ballet | Sleepy Hollow |
| Alice in Wonderland | |
| Oui/Non | |
| Rite of Spring (Trey McIntyre) | |
| Journey home Septime Webber | |
| 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 ODay) |
| 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 (reprise) | |
| Stuttgart Ballet Igor PoemsKevin ODay | |
| 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) |
| Septime Webre | The Wizard of OZ |
| 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 (Festival du Monde arabe) |
| École Supérieure de Ballet du Québec | Seascape |
| La boîte à joujoux Évènement OSM de Montréal | |
CIRCUS |
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| Cirque du Soleil | OVO |
| Viaggio | |
| Sonor | |
| Cosmos | |
| Exentrick | |
| Cirque Éloize | CirKopolis |
| Daphnis et Chloé : Montreal Orchestra Event Placer ICI | |
| Silencio Event in Paris Placer ICI | |
| Les 7 doigts de la main | Tryptique – Anne et Samuel |
| Kyle Driggs | Jonglerie |
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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 | |
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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) | |
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MULTIMEDIA |
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| Pixel System inc | Le Pixman (Daniel Langlois) |
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WORLD MUSIC |
Émeline Michel |
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ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN |
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| Insectarium de Montréal | Papillons en Liberté 2013 |
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UNIFORMS |
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| Palais des Congrès | Développement d’accessoires pour l’uniforme corporatif |
| Insectarium of Montréal | Papillons en Liberté 2013 |
| Papillons en Liberté 2014 | |
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COACHING / CONFERENCES |
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| Oxylane – Décathlon France | Cie Tribord (Hendaye, France) |
| Creativity & Innovation ( Lille, France) | |
| Domyos Company (Lille , France) | |
| Groupe Desjardins | Conference |
| Creative Workshop | |
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EVENTS |
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| International Game Technology | Avatar |
| Quartermania Global Gaming Expo | |
| Fivecurrents | Baku 2015 European Games (Azerbaïjan) |
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AWARDS |
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| Benois de la Danse | Nomination for Best Costume Design Alice in Wondeland |
| Hong Kong Dance Awards | Best Costume Design Alice in Wonderland |
| Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain | Best costume Cyr Wheel |
| Metro DC Dance Award | Excellence in Costume Design Journey Home |
| Genies Award | Nomination for Best Costumes Night of the flood |
| INCA fund raising | 1st Prize for a live création Carnaval de Venise |
| INCA fund raising | 1st Prize for a live creation Opera (Mrs. Butterfly ) |
| Elle-Québec Award | Jury Award for creation of Techno-dance dress |