press release - Compagnie Marie Chouinard

COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD on tour:
6 weeks, 7 works, 8 cities, 18 performances
Soft virtuosity, still humid, on the edge
Photo: Nicolas Ruel / COMPAGNIE’s dancers
Montreal, February 9, 2016 – COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD will be on
tour in France and Denmark from February 13 to March 22, stopping in
Copenhagen and seven French cities including Paris-Créteil, Avignon and
Rennes. No fewer than seven works from the COMPAGNIE repertoire will
be presented in different programs for a total of 18 performances. The
COMPAGNIE will be in Paris for four nights, invited by Théâtre de la Ville
and Maison des arts de Créteil, and five nights in Rennes at the Théâtre
National de Bretagne with The Rite of Spring and HENRI MICHAUX :
MOUVEMENTS.
HENRI MICHAUX : MOUVEMENTS
Photo: Sylvie-Ann Paré / Dancer: Carol Prieur
GYMNOPÉDIES and HENRI MICHAUX : MOUVEMENTS
Les Hivernales - Avignon
February 13
Soft virtuosity, still humid, on the edge and HENRI MICHAUX : MOUVEMENTS
Republique Theater - Copenhagen
February 17 to 20
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and The Rite of Spring
Théâtre des Salins - Martigues (February 26)
Le Moulin du Roc - Niort (March 22)
The Rite of Spring and HENRI MICHAUX : MOUVEMENTS
Théâtre National de Bretagne - Rennes (March 1 to 5)
Théâtre de la Ville/Maison des arts de Créteil - Paris (March 9 to 12)
24 Preludes by Chopin and HENRI MICHAUX : MOUVEMENTS
Grand Théâtre Massenet - Saint-Étienne
March 16
The Rite of Spring
COMPAGNIE’s dancers
COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD
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Étude no 1 and 24 Preludes by Chopin
MA Scène Nationale - Montbéliard
March 19
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With hybrid use of video, Soft virtuosity, still humid, on the edge (2015), the latest work by Marie Chouinard, reveals “live
film of first class dance.” - Wilhelm Triebold, Tagblatt, Stuttgart, 2015.
“With everything reduced to such inspired essentials, the evening rose to the highest form of art, propelled by a choreographer
operating at her creative peak, where we could truly expect the unexpected.” - Jane Vranish (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2013)
about HENRI MICHAUX : MOUVEMENTS (2011)
“Chouinard’s Rite of Spring [1993] [is] most probably one of the most beautifully choreographed of Stravinsky’s pieces.”
- Valérie Lehman, Le Devoir, Montréal, 1995
“Instead of a dancer playing a Faun, there was a real live Faun. I still don’t understand how Marie Chouinard managed
to convince this real live faun to appear before us. No human, be it dancer or otherwise, could move like this Faun did.
People just don’t. [...] This Faun is a work of genius. Mesmerizing, raw and beyond any earthly thing I have witnessed.”
- Teri McCollum (Freelance Dance Writer, San Francisco, 2009) about Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (1994)
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COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD
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“GYMNOPÉDIES [2013] is sensuous and languorous. […] In this work Chouinard has achieved what only the best artists can:
she travels to the very depths of our collective psyche, and brings what she finds there out into the open for all to see.”
- Nancy Berman, Bachtrack, 2013
“In 24 Preludes by Chopin [1999] [...] Ms. Chouinard takes her creativity onto an impressive and higher formal level.”
- Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times, 2003
“Étude no 1 [2001] is a virtuosic solo. […] An incredibly raw performance. It’s half an hour inside a dancer’s skin in which the
choreographer has blurred the lines between performing and existing.” - Susan Walker, Toronto Star, 2002
About MARIE CHOUINARD and the COMPAGNIE
For twenty-five years, the COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD has performed in the most prestigious theatres and festivals
around the world. The COMPAGNIE dancers deliver brilliant, daring works which introduce singular worlds created by Marie
Chouinard. The art of choreography is also explored on multiple platforms: interactive multimedia, film, photography,
drawing, performance, writing.
Marie Chouinard is a true cultural ambassador for Quebec. She has won several awards for her contribution to dance and
the arts, including the Ordre national du Québec (2015), the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec (2015), the Prix culturel
Samuel de Champlain (France, 2014), the prix Denise-Pelletier (Quebec, 2010), the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France,
2009), the Order of Canada (2007), the Grand Prix du Conseil des arts de Montréal (2006) and the Bessie Award (New York,
2000). In 2012, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec has awarded the first CALQ award for best choreographic work
of 2011-2012 to Marie Chouinard for THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE).
- 30 Information: Ariane Fontaine
514 843 9036 # 15
[email protected]
www.mariechouinard.com
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