Radicale Vitalité Compagnie Marie Chouinard
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RADICALE VITALITÉ COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD BIG TOP SATURDAY, JULY 31, 8 P.M. CAROL PRIEUR, SACHA OUELLETTE-DEGUIRE PHOTO : SYLVIE-ANN PARÉ ABOUT THE FESTIVAL DES ARTS DE SAINT-SAUVEUR A firm belief in the fundamental importance of culture in our society has brought the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur into the ranks of major arts and culture events staged in Quebec and the rest of Canada each year. FASS is now the largest regional dance presenter in the country, both in terms of the number of large-scale shows it presents and the size of its attendance. For nearly 30 years, the Festival has welcomed the greatest artists of dance and music on the national and international scene in the enchanting setting of the village of Saint-Sauveur. The Festival’s artistic direction has been orchestrated by Guillaume Côté since 2014. His experience, along with the expertise acquired in his career as a dancer, composer and choreographer, have led him to affirm the mandate of the Festival while putting added emphasis on creation, diver- sity and support for Quebec artists. Founded in 1992 as the Festival des Arts Hiawatha, the Festival was renamed the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur in 1997. The Festival first received recognition at the Grands Prix du Tourisme des Laurentides awards, with a special mention as Cultural Event of the Year in 2000, and has received the “Grand Prix du Tourisme des Laurentides” in 2007, 2008 and 2014. In 2009 FASS was awarded the “Prix Ambassadeur culturel des Laurentides” in the Cultural Festivals and Events category. For its 2020 edition, FASS was awarded the Prix Opus in the Specialist Presenter of the Year category. Under the leadership of Etienne Lavigne as Executive Director, it has contributed actively to laying the foundations of a genuine cultural hotspot with a reputation that extends well beyond the geographical boundaries of the Laurentians. OUR MISSION The Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the discovery and presentation of the best choreographers, dancers and musicians. Through its eclectic, inclusive, accessible and original programming, the Festival seeks to support and inspire artists from Canada and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their work and passion in an intimate setting. RADICALE VITALITÉ BALLET WITH NO INTERMISSION LENGTH 60 minutes WORLD PREMIERE June 23, 2018, at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Dance Marie Chouinard delved into the company’s repertoire to compose a new work consisting of solos and duets. She brought a new perspective to these small choreographic forms and recreated them: new costumes or sound environments, new choreographic adaptations, etc. She also unearthed certain projects which, until then, had remained on the pages of the choreographer’s notebooks. And she created two brand new duets. These 16 dance miniatures of 1 to 13-minute duration have become stand-alone pieces in a long and profound creative process. Radical vitality, that is, radical from the Latin radix, root. 1 LAST PART (ÉTUDE NO 1, 2001) 13 MIN 22 S Dancer for the world premiere: Lucie Mongrain Dancer: Carol Prieur 2 LOVE ATTACK #2 (CHORALE, 2003) 2 MIN 17 S Dancers for the world premiere: Isabelle Poirier and James Viveiros Dancers: Luigi Luna and Rose Gagnol 3 PETITE DANSE SANS NOM (1980) 1 MIN 19 S Dancer for the world premiere: Marie Chouinard Dancer: Paige Culley 4 ROYAL BELL (ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE, 2008) 1 MIN 16 S Dancer for the world premiere: Lucie Mongrain Dancer: Carol Prieur 5 UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT (ÉTUDE POIGNANTE, 1998) 3 MIN 03 S Dancer for the world premiere: Carol Prieur Dancer: Celeste Robins 6 PAIDEIA DUET (LES TROUS DU CIEL, 1991) 2 MIN 39 S Dancers for the world premiere: Benoît Lachambre and Heather Mah Dancers: Jossua Collin Dufour and Carol Prieur 7 SWING DUET (24 PRELUDES BY CHOPIN, 1999) 37 S Dancers for the world premiere: Lucie Mongrain and Peter Trosztmer Dancers: Michael Baboolal and Celeste Robbins 8 OUCH ! DUET (bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS, 2005) 2 MIN 50 S Dancers for the world premiere: Mark Eden-Towle and Carla Maruca Dancers: Jossua Collin Dufour and Celeste Robbins 9 LASCIA CH’IO PIANGA (2020) 5 MIN 05 S Dancer for the world premiere: Valeria Gallucio and Sacha Ouellette-Deguire Dancers: Adrian W.S. Batt and Valeria Galluccio 10 DUET (SOFT VIRTUOSITY, STILL HUMID, ON THE EDGE, 2015) 3 MIN 20 S Dancers for the world premiere: Paige Culley and Mariusz Ostrowski Dancers: Jossua Collin Dufour and Paige Culley 11 SOLO IN SILENCE (LE CRI DU MONDE, 2000) 4 MIN 40 S Dancers for the world premiere: Luciane Pinto and Elijah Brown Dancers: Valeria Galluccio and Carole Prieur 12 THE LADIES’ CROSSING (THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE), 2010) 2 MIN Dancers: All company dancers 13 CRYING-LAUGHING DUET (THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE), 2010) 3 MIN 39 S Dancers for the world premiere: Mark Eden-Towle and Lucie Mongrain Dancers: Luigi Luna and Celeste Robbins 14 SOLO AND 4 HEADS (THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE), 2010) 7 MIN 21 S Dancers for the world premiere: Carol Prieur and Lucie Mongrain Dancers: Valeria Galluccio and Carol Prieur 15 MASKS DUET (THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE), 2010) 2 MIN 04 S Dancers for the world premiere: Mark Eden-Towle and Lucy M. May Dancers: Adrian W.S. Batt and Paige Culley 16 FINALE (THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE), 2010) 1 MIN 08 S Dancers: All company dancers CREDITS CHOREOGRAPHIES TOURING TEAM Marie Chouinard REHEARSAL DIRECTOR ON TOUR *DANCERS FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE Annie Gagnon Sebastien Cossette-Masse, Catherine Dagenais- TOUR MANAGER Savard, Valeria Galluccio, Motrya Kozbur, Morgane Martin Coutu Le Tiec, Luigi Luna, Scott McCabe, Sacha Ouellette- Deguire, Carol Prieur and Clémentine Schindler TECHNICAL DIRECTOR AND STAGE MANAGER Jérémie Boucher DANCERS Michael Boboolal, Adrian W.S. Batt, Jossua LIGHTING MANAGER Collin Dufour, Paige Gulley, Rose Gagnol, Valeria Chantal Labonté Galluccio, Motrya Kozbur, Luigi Luna, Carol Prieur and Celeste Robbins SOUND ENGINEER Jérôme Guillaume MUSIC Louis Dufort : 1-4-5-10-11-12-14-15-16 Frédéric Chopin (Prélude 5 in opus 28) : 7 Georg Friedrich Haendel (Lascia Ch’io Pianga, Montserrat Caballe) : 9 SCORES FOR VOICE Marie Chouinard LIGHTS Marie Chouinard Except 5 : Axel Morgenthaler VIDEO, SET DESIGN AND PROPS Marie Chouinard COSTUMES Marie Chouinard Except 4-14 : Liz Vandal The COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD wishes to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts de Montréal. Download CANTIQUE, created by Marie Chouinard with Benoit Lachambre and Carol Prieur, free from the App Store. DANCERS MICHAEL BABOOLAL holds a BFA in dance from Ryerson University in Toronto (2018). While pursuing his studies, he worked alongside many emerging artists as well as established company including Cirque du Soleil, Guillaume Côté and Hanna Kiel. In 2018, he participated in the Springboard Dance Montreal program, performing works by Slowdanger and Batsheva Dance Company. He joined COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUI- NARD in 2020. ADRIAN W.S. BATT graduated from the École supérieure de ballet du Québec, after starting his career at the Dance East School and completing two internships at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. His work as a performer was rewarded with a scholarship of excellence given by the Jeune scène d’affaires of the École supérieure de ballet du Québec. He joined COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD in 2019. JOSSUA COLLIN DUFOUR first evolved in urban dance with Rockwell Family. In 2014 he graduated from the Ecole de danse contemporaine de Montréal. He has danced for Destins Croisés and collaborated with choreographers including Nico Archambault, Andrew Skeels, Sebastien Provencher, Wynn Holmes and Anne Plamondon. He joined COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD in 2019. PAIGE CULLEY is a dance artist originally from the West Kootenays, BC. A graduate of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Culley has worked and performed as a soloist with Daina Ashbee, the Compagnie Marie Chouinard (2011-2016), and Le Carré des Lombes. Culley produced, choreographed and performed her research project “Shapes” and has participated in works of film, performance and opera with artists including Albéric Aurtenèche, Kìzis, Robin Poitras, Tedd Robinson, and Doris Uhlich. Culley is the recipient of the Hnatyshyn Developing Artist Grant for contempo- rary dance, the danceWEB scholarship at ImPulsTanz, and the “Découverte” award of the Prix de la Danse de Montréal. She returned to COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD in 2020. ROSE GAGNOL, originally from France, obtained in 2015 her baccalaureate option contemporary dance at the Lycée Beaussier, in La Seyne sur Mer. She then began her higher education in dance at the OFF JAZZ establishment in Nice where she acquired the E.A.T (Technical Aptitude Examination) in contemporary dance. A 2021 graduate from the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal (EDCM), Rose obtained a training support grant from Circuit-Est. She joined the COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUI- NARD in 2021. VALERIA GALLUCCIO studied ballet with Annalisa Cernese in Italy. For three years, as part of the Venice Biennale, she danced the works of Ismaël Ivo as main performer before joining, in 2011, COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD. In 2015, she is named as “Best Italian dancer abroad” by the magazine Danza&Danza. In 2017, she is awarded the Positano Prize for “Dancer of the Year on the International Scene”. In 2019, she received the new Premio Nazionale Sfera Award of Oro per la Danza, as “Italian Dance Personality on the International Stage in Ballet and Contemporary Dance” as part of the Sfera Danza festival. MOTRYA KOZBUR is a graduate in contemporary dance from the Boston Conservatory. She worked as a seamstress for costume designer Naomi Luppescu in New York City, and danced for several years with LeeSaar The Company before joining COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD in 2017.