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Alexandra 'Spicey' Landé is a Montreal-based choreographer, dancer, and instructor. Landé has more than 20 years of dance experience and 10 years of choreography experience. Landé is an influential part of the Quebec Hip-Hop dance scene.

Early Life and Work
Landé was born in Haiti and raised in Montreal. She previously worked as a bank manager before quitting to found her dance company Unkut Productions.

Dance Productions
In 2005, Landé founded Unkut Productions, a company focused on urban theater production and event coordination. As part of Unkut Productions, Landé organized the Bust A Move dance festival (2005-2015), a renowned Montreal urban and street dance competition. While it was running, Bust A Move was Canada's largest street dance battle. In 2009, Landé participated in the 2009 World Hip-Hop Dance Championships in Las Vegas as a judge.

In 2015, Landé founded Ebnfloh Dance Company, with the goal "to create, produce, and showcase inspired, authentic, and ground-breaking works, and to promote original choreographic language that is essentially rooted in Hip-Hop." Their first piece, "Complexe R", premiered through the Montreal Intercultural Arts (MAI) organization in November 2015. Landé most recently choreographed "in-ward", which was performed through MAI in January 2019.