Discover all of our projects for the year
Diffusion
My Grandmother’s Threads is a multidisciplinary choreographic project by Alida Esmail, a Canadian dance and theatre artist whose work explores the body as a carrier of memory, history, and lived experience. Grounded in her Indo-African ancestry, the project traces a family lineage from Muslim India...
Catherine Dagenais-Savard Artists in residence Espace Perreault offers a space for creation, reflection, and freedom to a guest artist. Catherine yiatsih wendat chia’ québécoise endi’ yänariskwa’ iwayitiohkou’tenh Wendake indare’ Cushing ekwayehtih I received this gift, which is this research grant, and what I want is...
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The exhibition THREAD/BARE presents a unique perspective on vulnerability and the power of resilience. A true baring of the soul, offered by an unlikely duo: visual artist Randal Newman and contemporary dancer AnneBruce Falconer. A tortuous yet redemptive exploration of the world of emotions—an inward...
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Interviews between Linda Rabin and artists touched by her work, hosted by Lucie Boissinot This series of encounters brings together dance artists to explore the pedagogical and artistic legacy of Linda Rabin, a pioneer of dance in Canada. The collective formed by Emmanuelle Bourassa Beaudoin,…
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Since 2013, the workshops for dancers and non-dancers created by Ginelle Chagnon have helped revive Jean-Pierre Perreault’s choreographic repertoire throughout Quebec. The Danser Joe workshops, which are designed for amateur dancers and high school students through the Culture-Education directory, allow participants of all ages to immerse…
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Les archives du futur is part of a vast curatorial project, linking the living arts and feminist thought. This multidisciplinary project takes shape through a collective research process leading to the writing of feminist art histories. This collective work will bring together the voices of…
Co-production
Sismography is a collaborative platform that is a home to the stories of dancers. It is a sensitive archive of the subtle tremors and deep shudders that have marked their practice and that often remain taboo: physical and psychological injuries, illness, conditions, and disabilities that can impede, prevent,...
CO-PRODUCTION
A project imagined by Sophie Michaud : Tracement : Artistes et pratiques de l’accompagnement chorégraphique searches the memories of rehearsal directors and artistic advisors to spotlight their creative efforts and present their achievements. The project will offer a rich, varied vision of the know-how inherent…
Co-production
A project imagined by Pierre-Marc Ouellette: My entry into the world of Montreal contemporary dance in 2002 coincided with the passing of Jean-Pierre Perreault. A mythical figure who profoundly influenced the careers and lives of my teachers, I primarily know the man through what has...
Dissemination
The project Le corps qui cherche is a journey through the layers of dance memories. Using an ecosomatic documentary choreographic approach, Mélissa Raymond explores the remnants of choreographic works from the perspective of the dancers who performed them, by reactivating the movements they remember: a...
Completed projects
Discover all of the projects initiated and produced by Espace Perreault, as well as those on which Espace Perreault has collaborated
Dissemination
Founded in 2003, La 2e Porte à Gauche is a choreographic creation platform specializing in artistic research and development. Its projects question the performance space, foster collaboration between artists, and rethink the relationship with the audience in choreographic creation. La 2e Porte à Gauche...
Dissemination
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…
Production
Presentation A choreographic toolkit gathers together everything that leads to the creation of a work and perpetuates its transmission. Joe Choreographic Toolkit documents Joe, Jean-Pierre Perreault’s most famous work and one of the most influential in the Quebec choreographic repertoire. Joe marked a turning...
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For Openings. Perspectives on Choreographic Toolkits and Documentation in Dance, Lise Gagnon invited close to 20 dance practitioners (dancers, choreographers and researchers) to examine the choreographic toolkits from a meta perspective by opening them, interrogating them and unpacking them, in order to view them from…
Production
This series of dance portraits is based on testimonials from dancers about the legacy of their practice. What memories fuel your dance practice? What heritage has particularly marked your path? These dancing portraits share the thoughts and experiences of dancers on questions of memory and…
Coproduction
FAIRE CORPS | An audio series in 7 episodes José NAVAS, Françoise SULLIVAN, Margie GILLIS, Manon OLIGNY, Daniel LÉVEILLÉ, Mélanie DEMERS, Marie CHOUINARD: seven choreographers who have shaped quebec contemporary dance, enabling it to shine at here and abroad. These unconventional creators have inspired countless...
Co-production
Since 2013, the workshops for dancers and non-dancers created by Ginelle Chagnon have helped revive Jean-Pierre Perreault’s choreographic repertoire throughout Quebec. The Danser Joe workshops, which are designed for amateur dancers and high school students through the Culture-Education directory, allow participants of all ages to immerse…
Co-production
Yvon Soglo (a.k.a Crazy Smooth) is a choreographer and founder of the company Bboyizm. He is also currently an artist in the long-term residency program at the Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV, which provides support and access to its creation studio. Bboyizm has…
Co-production
Les archives du futur is part of a vast curatorial project, linking the living arts and feminist thought. This multidisciplinary project takes shape through a collective research process leading to the writing of feminist art histories. This collective work will bring together the voices of…
Co-production
A project imagined by Emmanuelle Bourassa Beaudoin and N. Zoey Gauld: This bilingual video series is an archive of a three-week workshop engaged in reflection, analysis, and pedagogical transmission with dance artist and pedagogue Angelique Willkie. Invited guests reflect with Angelique on her teaching philosophies…
Co-production
Sismography is a collaborative platform that is a home to the stories of dancers. It is a sensitive archive of the subtle tremors and deep shudders that have marked their practice and that often remain taboo: physical and psychological injuries, illness, conditions, and disabilities that can impede, prevent,...
CO-PRODUCTION
A project imagined by Sophie Michaud : Tracement : Artistes et pratiques de l’accompagnement chorégraphique searches the memories of rehearsal directors and artistic advisors to spotlight their creative efforts and present their achievements. The project will offer a rich, varied vision of the know-how inherent…
Co-production
Re-creation and creation of solos by Louise Bédard Danse compagny In the fall of 2020, five solos were reassembled for the camera in order to enhance the visual archives of Louise Bédard Danse. During this disruptive period when the situation of artists was undermined, the…
Co-production
A project imagined by Pierre-Marc Ouellette: My entry into the world of Montreal contemporary dance in 2002 coincided with the passing of Jean-Pierre Perreault. A mythical figure who profoundly influenced the careers and lives of my teachers, I primarily know the man through what has...
Dissemination
Each month, Espace Perreault posts a video from Circuit-Est’s En aparté series, where guest dance instructors describe their professional career and teaching approach in contemporary dance, within an international context.
Dissemination
Perreault Dancer, directed by Tim Southam (screenplay by Andrée Martin, produced by Les Films de l’Isle, Ian Boyd, 2005), is a poignant love letter to Jean-Pierre Perreault. A diverse family of dancers enact the choreographer’s artistic legacy, bringing his memory to life through words, movement,…
Co-production
Espace Perreault hosts on its website traces of the project Pluriels, a performative installation initiated by Mathide Loslier Pellerin, and supports its creative process. An atmosphere of time; translated spaces. Pluriels is a performative installation in progress that invites bodies to navigate space through…
Production
Espace Perreault get-togethers are 5 à 7 events that offer a warm, relaxed atmosphere to meet dance artists, ask them questions, and find out what drives them. Every 5 à 7 event is dedicated to a specific, shared challenge that is central to the creative…
Co-production
In early May 2018, Ondinnok, in collaboration with Tangente, presented Constrained Body, Dancing Body, an event offering multi-faceted perspectives on Indigenous dance in Quebec today. A few days later, the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault held its focus day event, Between Traces and Writing. We invited Catherine…
Dissemination
Territoires Partagés (November 18 to May 2020) was a website designed to observe and document dance training practices in Quebec. The site included sections with texts, interviews, podcasts and visual documents highlighting multiple practices. It was an opportunity for artists to explore the dance ecosystem,…
Co-production
The Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault participated in the project Se mouvoir dans l’archive / Moving through the archive, a production by Galerie UQO with choreographer, dramaturg and dancer Hanna Sybille Müller. In the fall of 2019, director/curator Marie-Hélène Leblanc invited Hanna Sybille Müller to work with…
Co-production
Dulcinea Langfelder created Victoria in 1999—a dance piece about old age, vulnerability and cognitive decline. It has been presented in fifteen countries and eight languages, and is still available for touring today. To pay tribute to the work and the issues it raises, Dulcinea Langfelder…
Co-production
In 1998, Harold Rhéaume created his first major work, Les dix commandements, which examines complex issues related to the values and moral codes that hold a society together. His company, Le fils d’Adrien danse, celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2021. To mark the occasion, it…