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The Compagnie Marie Chouinard, founded by the Montreal choreographer Marie Chouinard in 1990, is one of the most renowned Canadian dance companies in the world. It is invited to perform at some of the most prestigious dance festivals and seasons, including the ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival in Vienna, the Venice Biennale and the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. Some of her works are also being introduced in the repertoire of some international ballet companies. The recipient of numerous awards, Marie Chouinard has created some 50 choreographies, action performances, vocal works, installations, and films in just over 25 years. |
Photo CreditsElijah Brown & Julio Cesar Hong, Les 24 Préludes de Chopin, Compagnie Marie Chouinard; photo: Marie Chouinard Carol Prieur, Carla Maruca, Chorale, Compagnie Marie Chouinard; photo: Marie Chouinard Carol Prieur, bODY_rEMIX / gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS, Compagnie Marie Chouinard; photo: Marie Chouinard Photo of Marie Chouinard: Laurence Labat |
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Photo of Marie Chouinard: Laurence Labat |
Artistic Director
Marie Chouinard choreographed her first work in 1978 and is now the author of a large and diverse body of choreographic, vocal, installation and performance works. She has studied and traveled widely, with sojourns in New York, Berlin, Bali and Nepal. This knowledge of other cultures enriches her work. She is fascinated by the structure of the human form, and her style is at once precise, ferocious and sensuous, bristling with tension between formal structures and deliberate rule-breaking.
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bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS
Created at the Venice Biennale's International Festival of Contemporary Dance, Italy (2005)
2005/Venice/Italy
85 minutes
10 performers
Marie Chouinard, Choreographer and Artistic Direction
Louis Dufort: Variations on the Variations
Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, Variations 5,6,8
Vocal Extracts of Glenn Gould
Marie Chouinard, Lighting, Set Designs and Props
Vandal, Costumes and Hair Stylist
Jacques-Lee Pelletier, Make-up
Nadia Bellefeuille, Production Manager
Erwann Bernard, Marc Tétrault, Lighting Creation Assistants
A Compagnie Marie Chouinard Production, co-produced with the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Montreal High Lights Festival, Schlossfestspeiele (Ludwigsburg), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Venice Biennale, White Bird (Portland), with the support of ImPulsTanz (Vienna)
bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS (2005) – In bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS, the company’s ten dancers execute variations on the exercise of freedom. Often, the dancers appear on points: on one, two, and even four at a time. In a spectroscopy of the gesture, we also see them using different devices – crutches, rope, prostheses, horizontal bars, and harnesses – which at times liberate their movements, at others fetter it, and at still others create it. This use of accessories gives rise to unusual bodily shapes and gestural dynamics and opens onto a universe of meticulous and playful explorations in which solos, duos, trios and group work, in their labour, pleasure and invention, echo the human condition.
CHORALE
2003/Reggio Emilia Danza/Italy
45 minutes
10 performers
Marie Chouinard, Choreographer, Artistic Direction and Vocals
Louis Dufort, Original Music
Edward Freeman, Sound Design
Axel Morgenthaler and Marie Chouinard, Lighting
Vandal, Costumes
Jacques-Lee Pelletier, Make-up
Chorale (2003) - With Chorale, a work for ten dancers, Marie Chouinard recalls that the words choreography and chorale share the same etymology in Greek. In this work, she creates a festive universe around the notion of sexuality and divinity. Here, the corporeal and vocal architecture is pushed to extremes and voice and movement have common cause. Out of these singular bodies, fashioned by irresistible pulsations that stretch them and throw them out of kilter, steal breathless, chanting, gurgling, howling and ululating voices.
During this thoughtful series of apotheoses, beings meet on the side of the formless or mis-shapen and the strange or troubling, of grace or spoliation and the primitive or urbane, amusing themselves with unusual and yet strangely familiar games. Alone, in duets, or as a group, they call out to the other, respond to it, and drink deeply at its source in an immediate series of situations that are intense, tender, humorous and profoundly human in turn.
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