Liz Vandal, Founder and designer
Liz Vandal started her career as a fashion designer. Self-taught, she entered the universe of clothing more than twenty-five years ago. From dazzling beginnings she brought her originality to the rigorous domains of dance, circus, cinema and special projects, building a company of excellency.
Great partnerships link Liz Vandal with numerous choreographers and dance companies around the world: Edouard Lock; Compagnie Marie Chouinard; Margie Gillis; José Navas; Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal; Le Ballet National du Canada; The Washington Ballet; Mannheim Theater; Stuttgart Ballet (Germany); l’Opéra de Paris; Göteborg Theater (Sweden), Hong Kong Ballet.
Vandal explores all domains of show business, from creating costumes for The Backstreet Boys Black’n Blue Tour, to films including The Lathe of Heaven directed by Philip Haas and Quebec’s Director Manon Briand’s La Turbulence des fluides.
Vandal enters the circus world, designing flamboyant insect costumes for OVO, the 25th Cirque du Soleil show, CIRKOPOLIS, a Cirque Éloize creation and the opening duo for LES 7 Doigts de La Main’s new creation Tryptique.
Collaborating with multi-national IGT (International Gaming Technology) in Las Vegas, Vandal created AVATAR costumes approved by Jon Landau and 20th Century Fox.
As a design, innovation, production and team synergy consultant, Liz offers her services to Sportswear multinational Oxylane, owner of Decathlon stores to develop avant-garde products.
As the company continues to expand, an incomparable opportunity leads Vandal’s creativity to Azerbaijan for the first European games in 2015 where she designs an incredible 3000 costumes for the closing ceremony.
Since 2017 Cirque du Soleil floats onto the sea, on Cruise ship Meraviglia with Vandal’s costumes dressing up two shows : “Viaggio” and “Sonor”.
2018 will see two major productions with Vandal costumes : “The Wizard of OZ” premiering in October 2018 and “Alice in Wonderland” presented by the Honk Kong Ballet.
Vandal’s creativity has no boundaries !
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 | Tournée mondiale Black & Blue |
| LaLaLa Human Steps | Nouvelle Création |
| Amjad | |
| Amélia | |
| 2 | |
| Infante, C’est destroy | |
| Flak | S |
| 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 | |
| OVertigo | Étude#3 Pour Cordes et Poulies |
| Hong Kong Ballet | Alice in Wonderland (Septime Webre) |
| Royal Winnipeg Ballet | Handmaids Tale (Lila York) |
| Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal | Étude (Édouard Lock) |
| Slow Smoke (Kevin ODay) | |
| Chez La Duchesse (Septime Webber) | |
| Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal | Circle Song (Sean Hounsel) |
| Entre-Deux | |
| 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) |
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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 | |
| 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 (Marie Chouinard) | |
| 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 (45 DEGREES) | |
| Sonor (45 DEGREES) | |
| Cirque Éloize | CirKopolis |
| Daphnis et Chloé : Événement OSM de Montréal | |
| Silencio Evénement à Paris | |
| 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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TV |
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| BIG Productions | (Projet en cours) |
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MULTIMEDIA |
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| Pixel System inc | Le Pixman (Daniel Langlois) |
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WORLD MUSIC |
Émeline Michel (costume de scène) |
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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 de Montréal | Papillons en Liberté 2013 |
| Papillons en Liberté 2014 | |
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COACHINGS |
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| Oxylane – Décathlon France | Cie Tribord (Hendaye, France) |
| Créativité et Innovation ( Lille, France) | |
| Cie Domyos (Lille , France) | |
| Groupe Desjardins | Conférence |
| Atelier créatif | |
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EVENTS |
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| International Game Technology | Avatar |
| Quartermania Global Gaming Expo Vegas | |
| Fivecurrents Azerbaïjan | First European Games Baku 2015 |
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AWARDS |
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| Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain | Prix du meilleur costume pour CirKopolis Roue Cyr Angelica Bongiovonni |
| Metro DC Dance Award | Prix d’excellence pour la création des costumes du spectacle Journey Home |
| Evénement INCA | 1er prix du public pour une création en direct (Sur le thème Carnaval de Venise) |
| Prix Génie | Finaliste pour les meilleurs costumes (Du film La nuit du déluge) |
| Evénement INCA | 1er prix du public pour une création en direct sur le thème L’Opéra (Mme Butterfly) |
| Concours Elle-Québec | 1er prix du jury pour la création sur le thème Une robe pour danser |