Marie Chouinard
In order to break away from her classical training, it is as a solo act that Marie Chouinard began her career as a dancer in 1978. For twelve years, the Quebec-born choreographer, now working in her own venue in Montreal, experimented with the different dimension of her body, of its relationship to mind and to matter. Over that time, she created almost thirty different shows, including Cristallisation (1978), Marie Chien Noir (1982), Space, Time and Beyond (1986), and L'Après-midi d'un faune (Afternoon of a Faun, 1987). In 1990, now internationally-renowned for her unique talent, she decided to collectively question “that vital impulse of the body” that so fascinated her, leading to the creation of Les trous du ciel (The Holes in the Sky), her company's first show. She followed that up with numerous major works from the contemporary repertoire such as The Rite of Spring (1993), 24 Preludes by Chopin (1999), Le Cri du Monde (The Cry of the World, 2000), or bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS (2005). Her research, which she defines as “a vanishing point towards the unspeakable,” takes diverse forms, from poetry to drawing, from photography to cinema, from installation art to new virtual technologies.
