Martin Labrecque
Criador da iluminação (KOOZA, Corteo)
Martin's professional credits include around 100 theatrical productions. KOOZA is the second Cirque du Soleil show for which he has created the lighting, following his debut on Corteo.
Martin Labrecque's professional assignments include around a hundred theatrical productions. He contributed to the critical success of several Quebec shows including L'Homme en Lambeaux in 2001, for which he won an award for his lighting design. In 2003 he co-wrote a show with Patrice Dubois about the life of Orson Welles: Everybody's Welles Pour Tous, for which he received the Masque de la Meilleure Production Montréal. He has won two other Masque awards, in 2005 for his work on Le Peintre des Madonnes and in 2007 for Hosanna, both of which were directed by Serge Denoncourt. His other lighting designs have garnered a dozen award nominations.
Before coming to Cirque du Soleil, Martin Labrecque created the lighting for two acclaimed circus shows produced by Cirque Eloize, Rain and Nomade, which was directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca, who went on to write and direct Cirque du Soleil's Corteo.
KOOZA marks the first time Martin has worked with director David Shiner. "David told me right off the bat, 'I want people to see my clowns,'" he recalls. "So one of the challenges I faced was to accentuate the faces of the comic actors – which is crucial to the appreciation of their performance – without upsetting the balance or compromising the aesthetic of the show as a whole. And it was tough, because they have to be visible from all around a 280-degree stage."
Martin Labrecque was born in 1972 in Montreal.