Compagnie Marie Chouinard
Radical Vitality
Thursday, June 1, 8:00 to 9:30 PM
River Run Centre Main Stage Theatre
35 Woolwich St.
Duration : 75 minutes
“I’ve been creating mostly large forms for years. Now I want to go back to creating small forms. I love it when everything is said concisely, and moreover with an invitation to breathe… as in the three lines of a Japanese haiku. I revisited solos that have existed for 30, even 40 years. I also picked duets and solos that appear among my large forms to recreate autonomous variations of them. I searched through my notebooks and unearthed beautiful ones that had never been performed before. And I created brand new ones. It was a joyous adventure with all the performers, as if we were exploring lands known and unknown.” – MARIE CHOUINARD
Marie Chouinard was born in Quebec. At the age of 16, her life was transformed after spending 4 months alone in Percé. As a choreographer, she traveled the world over as soloist for 12 years before founding the COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD in 1990. Her works with their avant-guard signature are nonetheless enduring and appear in the repertoires of major international ballet companies.
Marie Chouinard is a director (films, applications, virtual reality works), an author (Zéro Douze, Chantiers des extases), a visual artist (photographs, drawings, installations), and she also creates choreographies for site-specific installations, for the screen, and in real-time for the web.
She was named an Officière des Arts et des Lettres in France. She has received some thirty of the most prestigious awards and honors. She founded the Prix de la Danse de Montréal in 2011 and was director of dance at the Venice Biennale from 2017 to 2020. Marie Chouinard is preparing a solo exhibition for the reopening of the Musée d’art contemporain in Montreal
1 – LAST PART (ÉTUDE NO 1, 2001) 13 min 22 s Dancer: Carol Prieur 2 – HANDS DUET (2018) 3 min 05 s Dancers: Valeria Galluccio and Motrya Kozbur 3 – VISAGES (2018) 2 min 52 s Dancer: Motrya Kozbur 4 – ROYAL BELL (ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, 2008) 1 min 16 s Dancer: Carol Prieur 5 – PETITE DANSE SANS NOM (1980) 1 min 19 s Dancer: Paige Culley 6 – LOVE ATTACK #2 (CHORALE, 2003) 2 min 17 s Dancers: Luigi Luna and Clémentine Schindler 7 – PAIDEIA DUET (2018) 2 min 39 s Dancers: Jossua Collin Dufour and Carol Prieur 8 – UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT (ÉTUDE POIGNANTE, 1998) 1 min Dancer: Celeste Robbins 9 – SWING DUET (24 PRELUDES BY CHOPIN, 1999) 37 s Dancers: Michael Baboolal and Clémentine Schindler 10 – WILD GOOSE DUET (2018) 3 min 32 s Dancers: Luigi Luna and Motrya Kozbur 11 – LASCIA CH'IO PIANGA (2018) 5 min 5 s Dancers: Adrian W.S. Batt and Valeria Galluccio 12 – DUET (SOFT VIRTUOSITY, STILL HUMID, ON THE EDGE, 2015) 3 min 20 s Dancers: Paige Culley and Jossua Collin Dufour 13 – SOLO IN SILENCE (LE CRI DU MONDE, 2000) 4 min 40 s Dancers: Valeria Galluccio and Michael Baboolal 14 – THE LADIES’ CROSSING (THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE), 2010) 2 min Dancers: Michael Baboolal, Adrian W.S. Batt, Jossua Collin Dufour, Paige Culley, Rose Gagnol, Motrya Kozbur, Luigi Luna, Carol Prieur and Celeste Robbins 15 – OUCH! DUET (bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS, 2005) 2 min 50 s Dancers: Jossua Collin Dufour and Clémentine Schindler 16 – CRYING-LAUGHING DUET (THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE), 2010) 3 min 39 s Dancers: Paige Culley and Luigi Luna 17 – SOLO AND 4 HEADS (THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE), 2010) 7 min 21 s Dancers: Valeria Galluccio and Carol Prieur 18 – MASKS DUET (THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE), 2010) 2 min 04 s Dancers: Adrian W.S. Batt and Paige Culley, then all the dancers from the Company.
World premiere: June 23, 2018, at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Dance
CREDITS Choreographies: Marie Chouinard Dancers : Carol Prieur, Valeria Galluccio, Motrya Kozbur, Paige Culley, Clémentine Schindler, Luigi Luna, Jossua Collin Dufour, Adrian W.S. Batt, Celeste Robbins, Michael Baboolal, Rose Gagnol and Scott McCabe Music: Louis Dufort: : 1-2-3-4-8-12-13-14-16-17-18-19 Frédéric Chopin (Prelude 5 in opus 28): 9 Georg Friedrich Haendel (Lascia Ch’io Pianga, interpreted by Montserrat Caballe) : 11 Scores for voice: Marie Chouinard Lights: Marie Chouinard Video, set design and props: Marie Chouinard Costumes: Marie Chouinard Except 4-8-17 : Liz Vandal Touring Team: Artistic Director on Tour: Tony Chong Tour Manager: Martin Coutu Technical Director and Stage Manager: Félix Lefebvre Sound Manager: Pierre-Alexandre Poirier-Guay and Jérôme Guilleaume Lighting Manager: Chantal Labonté and Zacharie Filteau Development and Booking : Julie George