Excerpt from work
Video excerpt of A horrifying dance, or how a dance survives
Production
Espace Perreault Choreographic transmission, 2025Performance
Marcela Correa, based on the play “La Huesudita” by Carolina VascouezVideo recording
Maude Archambault-WakilMusic
Osea Mar by Nicanor Millan
Biography
Marcela Correa (she, her) was born in Quito, Ecuador. She trained as a dancer at Frente de Danza Independiente in Quito, which she co-founded in 1985, studying with Wilson Pico, Kléver Viera, and Carlos Cornejo. She earned a Master’s degree in Expressive Arts Therapy from Lesley University in Boston, MA. She also trained in authentic movement, somatic movement techniques, improvisation, and contact improvisation. From 2006 to 2024, she was the coordinator of the Performing Arts department at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, where she founded the contemporary dance company TALVEZ.
Project
Diffusion
A project imagined by Esteban Donoso Esteban Donoso focuses on the archiving and transmission of dance and performance, oral histories, and practice-based methodologies. On November 20, 2024, he presented excerpts from his doctoral thesis Olas de Otro Mar: Reenacting, Renarrating, and Ruminating Dance in Quito-Ecuador, in…
Events
It is with pleasure that Espace Perreault Transmissions Chorégraphiques and the Department of Dance at UQAM collaborate in the presentation of the Workshop Performance: A Horrifying Dance, or How a Dance Survives November 20th at 6 pm at the Dance Laboratory at UQAM, 840, Cherrier, K- 2210,…
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Article
For more information visit the French version of this article: https://espaceperreault.ca/fr/collection/bras-de-plomb-de-paul-andre-fortier-active-dans-linitiative-magdance-5-art-dance-archive-de-la-mackenzie-art-gallery/
Audio interview
Six dance artists and teachers share their experiences of the adaptability and creativity they had to demonstrate in order to continue teaching during the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 crisis. A generous conversation with Sarah Bild, Marie Claire Forté, Sara Hanley, Susanna Hood, Alanna Kraaijeveld,…
Video interview
(in French) Following the intergenerational collaborations that gave rise to the work Pluton, La 2e Porte à Gauche imagined a series of portraits produced by Claudia Chan Tak with the help of Katya Montaignac. Major figures in Quebec contemporary dance are presented through the gaze…