"Human Sex" was the breakthrough piece for the French-Canadian choreographer Édouard Lock and his company La La La Human Steps. Choreographed in 1985, it garnered widespread attention for the company and marked La La La Human Steps' entrance into the international dance scene. Lock's choreographic and scenographic aesthetic was heralded as violent and oppositional and gave the company a reputation as radical dance revisionists. Lock focused much of his choreographic attention on Louise Lecavalier, a dancer in his company. Lecavalier, whose appearance was muscularly androgynous and whose dancing was explosively risky, contributed to the revolutionary and cutting-edge feel of "Human Sex" at the time of its premiere. As the title of Lock's work suggests, the theme of this work was about the often unfulfilled character of sexual relationships between men and women.
