From May 15 to 18, the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault invited the entire dance community to take part in the focus day series Between Traces and Writing. Featuring round table discussions, conversations, performances and workshops, the event explored the themes of traces, notation, documentation, memory, body/archives…
From May 15 to 18, 2018, the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault presented a series of focus days and workshops at Hexagram-UQAM, titled Between Traces and Writings. The event included round table discussions, performances and workshops focused on the themes of traces, notations, documentation, memories, body/archives and…
Since 1977, Marie Chouinard has created over fifty choreographic works, including some thirty solos that she has performed herself. She founded the Compagnie Marie Chouinard in 1991. In an interview with Marie-Gabrielle Ménard, the choreographer, author, draughtswoman, set designer, photographer, costume and lighting designer recounts…
Mélanie Demers, choreographer, performer and director, danced for 10 years with the O’Vertigo company before founding her own company, MAYDAY, in 2007. Speaking to Marie-Gabrielle Ménard, the performer who prefers problems to solutions talks on stage about her interest in hybridity, chaos and savagery. In…
How does Nicolas Patry rediscover his process of reactivating bodily memories in Danièle Desnoyers’ work Unfold? The project Le corps qui cherche is an exploratory phase of doctoral student Mélissa Raymond‘s research-creation project Chorégraphier les restes: approche écosomatique du corps-archive. It is intended as a…