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| Amélie Bédard-Gagnon |
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Amélie Bédard-Gagnon a terminé son DEC au Cégep de Drummondville en 2000. Depuis, elle a obtenu son baccalauréat en danse, profil interprétation, à l'Université du Québec à Montréal au printemps 2004. Dès sa sortie de l’école, elle se joint à l’équipe de La 2e Porte à Gauche, une maison de production en danse contemporaine qui a pour but de créer des événements accessibles à tout public. En septembre 2004, elle a participé à La Résonnance du Double , une exposition chorégraphique de Ginette Laurin, au Musée d'Art Contemporain. En août 2005 et 2006, elle est de la distribution de Osez !, une initiative de Karine Ledoyen et chorégraphié par Lina Cruz et Ginette Laurin à Saint-Jean-Port-Joli. Amélie danse également pour de jeunes chorégraphes de la relève, dont Marie Béland (maribé-live in Montreal, Les Précédents), Stéphanie Boudreau (Comme un homard), Sonia Lareau (…Les points de suspension), Jean-François Légaré (De quoi j'ai l'air) et Anne Thériault (Valeur ajoutée ajoutée). Présentement, elle travaille avec Marie-Eve Albert et Anne Thériault, dont les nouvelles créations seront présentées à Tangente en décembre 2009 et février 2010. Outre la danse, Amélie est massothérapeute sportive et maman! |
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| A-Shôvàne Brisinbi |
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A-Shôvàne Brisinbi received her bachelor’s degree in dance from Concordia University in 1999. She has danced for more than 20 years in cabaret and contemporary dance. She also leads rehearsals and teaches children. In 2000, she choreographed and performed a solo “Chiky Chiky ya ya yé” at Tangente in the Dance buissonnière series. She has participated in workshops given by O Vertigo and Holy Body Tattoo and has danced for Dave St-Pierre, Massimo Agostinelli, Motaz Kabbani, Julie Pilon, and many others. She has also taught, choreographed, and trained actors at McGill University. Recently, she has been a dancer on stilts with the troupe Sky…Pas Limite, singer, choreographer, and burlesque actress for the Hot Club Cabaret, and works with her company Equilibria. Her artistic explorations have spread to various other domains such as painting, theatre, singing, and sculpture, while keeping dance as her core pursuit. She has two children. Shôvàne performed in Mama dances/1000mains. |
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| Marilou Castonguay |
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Marilou Castonguay Après des études en ballet classique, en danse moderne puis en production théâtrale, Marilou s’envole vers l’Europe où elle expérimente pendant deux ans le travail des arts de la rue. Outre la danse, son travail d’interprète combine le chant, le mime et le théâtre. En 2001 elle collabore avec le groupe Raoul et les Raoulettes dans lequel elle danse et chante. Pendant trois ans, ils feront ensemble, d’abord un disque, puis, plusieurs spectacles et festivals notamment celui des Francopholies de Montréal. Diplômée en danse contemporaine de L’UQAM en 2004, elle a travaillé avec entre autre Dominique Porte (Osez!), Karine Ledoyen (Gros et détail), et Harold Rhéaume (Clash). Depuis le mois d’août 2005, elle occupe à temps partiel les postes de répétitrice de tournée et de directrice de production au sein de la compagnie Le Fils d’Adrien Danse.
… est titulaire d’un Bac en danse de l’Université Concordia. En 2000, elle présente à Tangente un solo dans le cadre de Danse Buissonnière. Depuis, son cheminement a divergé dans divers domaines d’arts toujours reliés à la danse, créant une sculpture du corps, d’états d’âmes, de fébrilité : outils essentiels à la sensibilisation. « Nous sommes tous des ingénieurs en mouvement & l’émotion occupe le devant de la scène ». Déjà mère d’une petite fille, elle est présentement enceinte. |
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| Kaitlin Clipsham |
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Upon completing her degree in Contemporary Dance at Concordia University (2004), Kaitlin Clipsham has been working in Montreal as a dancer, teacher and choreographer. As a recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts travel grant, she recently travelled to Buenos Aires, Argentina in order to perform her self-solo, Waving or Drowning. Kaitlin has also been working as a dancer and collaborator with Nacando Productions on various dance for film projects and site-specific works. She is thrilled to be a mama and to be a part of Mama dances with her daughter, Adalia Fordwoo. Adalia is almost 9 months old. She is enjoying every moment of dancing with Mama dances.
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| Monica Gan |
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Monica Gan is an independant dancer who has performed throughout Canada and the world and has worked for several choreographers and dance companies, including Learie McNicolls, Andrea Nann, CORPUS, Lucie Grégoire, Pigeons International, and the Jean-Pierre Perreault Foundation. She has also choreographed and produced several of her own shows, including “In Time” and “Jungle Twang” for Summer Cocktails in 1996, “Cleaning House” for the Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists in 2000, and “Wardrobe” in 2002. Her most recent creation is “Wind”, a solo premiered at Festival Accès Asie in 2005. A former gymnast and a graduate of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Monica has also practiced the martial arts Shaolin Kung Fu and Yang Style Tai Chi for many years. She has two children. Monica performed in Mama dances /1000mains and Obiero |
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Audrey Lehouillier
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Audrey Lehouillier studied at l’École de danse de Québec before completing her professional training at Ateliers de danse moderne de Montréal in 1998. Over several years she danced in choreography by Stéphane Deligny, Parise Mongrain, Pierre Lecours and Karine Denault, and became co-founder of the Collective La Fabrique Rouge. In 1998, she created a choreographic trilogy : Vous dansez mademoiselle ? (1998), Vous avez une plume de paon monsieur ? (2000) et Vous savez...madame ? (2001). These three colourful and humoristic pieces were presented, on a shared program at Tangent, in the Maisons de la Culture de Montréal and at the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse. In 2003, with Bleue, Audrey put aside her theatrical style for a more intimate and personal one. Blue was presented by Tangent in april 2003, and was chosen by le journal culturel ICI Montréal as one of the most remarkable of the season. Her last creation, Hypnoptik, was presented at Tangente in mars 2005. Audrey is mother to Massimo, age 2 1/2 and Zoe, born July 28, 2008. Audrey performed in Obiero. |
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| Talía Leos |
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Dancer, choreographer and teacher, Mexican-born Talía Leos has lived in Montréal since 2003. A graduate of the master’s program in dance at UQAM, Talía holds degrees in contemporary dance (Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey, 1994) and in pedagogy (Centro de Estudios Universitarios, 2001). She has also received professional training in music (Facultad de Música de la UANL et Universidad Regiomontana).
Since 1987, Talía Leos has danced professionally for Mexican and American dance companies and her creative and teaching projects have been produced and presented in Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Between 1996 and 2003 she received scholarships, prizes and grants for choreography, studies and teaching, due to her interest in creating community dance projects as well as projects in the professional dance world. Talía Leos has specialized since 1997 in dance and handicaps, the topic of her thesis project at UQÀM. In 1997 she founded Cuerpo en Voz and Animas del Cuerpo, contemporary dance troupes involving handicapped and able-bodied dancers. In 2000 she founded and coordinated Depiesacabeza,a.c., a group of artist-instructors of multidisciplinary projects for handicapped and able-bodied participants. In Montréal she has worked with choreographers such as France Geoffroy, Sandrine Amra, Jemima Hoadley, Eryn Dace Trudell, Nicole Saucedo, and Margie Gillis. She has taught at Corpuscule Danse, at the École Jean-Piaget, and at Auberge Saint-Antoine. Her projects have been presented at Soirée des performances UQÀM 2003, Bain St-Mathieu, En masse, Society for Arts and Technology, Agorafestif 2004, Kick 3, Passerelle 840, Jam–Performance Evenings. Talia has one child. Talia has been substitute teaching Mama dances classes. |
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| Suzanne Miller & Allan Paivio |
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Since 1998, Suzanne Miller & Allan Paivio Productions has worked toward a hybrid, poly-cultural repertoire of new dance and music unique to Québec and Canada. The distinctive character of the company derives from an ongoing series of cultural and artistic exchanges that feed their creative process. The company has toured Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Germany.
Collaborating since 1985, Suzanne Miller and Allan Paivio envelope their audiences in a total theatre that combines hypnotic choreographic sequences with electrical aural landscapes. With sound and movement they merge every facet of the performance experience into an integrated encounter with the sublime. ... >>
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| Aurélie Pedron |
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Aurélie Pedron graduated in dance from UQAM in 2004, and works in both stage and video creation. Particularly interested in artistic interconnection, she has explored videodance and animated film. In 2005, most of her videos were presented at the Casa Obscura. In 2006, Studio 303 showed “Il était des fois” during the Edgy Women festival. Two of her recent works were presented at the Cinémathèque québécoise for International Dance Day 2006. Aurélie has also explored the world of Artaud and created in December 2005 “C’est ainsi qu’on avale Artaud”, a performance for three actors and five dancers. She has one child. Aurélie performed in Mama dances/1000mains. |
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Liliona Quarmyne
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Liliona comes from a rich, eclectic performing arts background in dance and theatre. She began dancing as a little girl, and continued on with training in jazz, ballet, musical theatre, hip-hop, acting, and African dance. She has a BA and a MA in the performing arts, has over 10 years of teaching experience in a variety of dance forms, and continues to perform, working mostly recently with Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata and with MamaDances.
Following the birth of her little girl, Zya, Liliona cherishes the opportunity to further enhance the natural and instinctive connection she feels between 2 of the earth’s most fundamental acts – mothering and movement. Dancing with Zya challenges Liliona to search for integrity – in every step, Zya asks her to be present, aware, and open. Dancing together also encourages both Liliona and Zya to learn from one another, to deepen their relationship, to breathe (which Zya is better at than Liliona!), to love, to laugh, to question, and to expand. Liliona believes that dancing with her daughter is essential to her development as a mother, as a woman, and as an artist. |
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| Nancy Rivest |
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Nancy Rivest studied with Lina Cruz and has also graduated from the Ateliers de danse Moderne de Montréal under the artistic direction of Tassy Teekman. She has performed the works of Estelle Clareton, Danse Sursaut, Sheila Ribeiro (Brazil), Harold Rhéaume, and Benjamin Hatcher, and Motaz Kabbani. She has also participated in Elisabeth Corbeth’s workshops exploring the principles of structured improvisation developed by William Forsythe. She takes part regularly in butoh workshops including those of Yuri Waguri, Jocelyne Montpetit and Yumiko Yushioka. With the support of the Canada Council, she was a member of DanceWeb in Austria in 2002 where she received coaching from David Zambranoo and Emio Greco. Also in 2002, she collaborated with multidisciplinary artists to develop dance videos, photographic projects, and performances of vijing (Les Technocrates). Nancy performed in Mama dances/1000 mains in 2006. She has one child. |
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| Caroline Sirois |
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Caroline Sirois received her bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance (performance major) from the Université du Québec à Montréal after having performed many times in “The Nutcracker” with the Grands Ballets Canadiens and after completing her studies in classical ballet at the École supérieure de danse du Québec. While a student, she worked with renowned choreographers such as José Navas, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Louise Bédard, Daniel Léveillé and Paul-André Fortier. She took intensive classes in Mexico in 2002 with the Ballet de la Ciudad de México, participated in a summer workshop with Roger Sinha, and received a work-study grant with the company O Vertigo. On the professional stage, she has performed several roles for the Opéra de Montréal, and performed as a contemporary dancer in the fantasy opera “Le Quatrième Enfant-Lune” by Oriol Tomas, set to music by Gabriel Thibaudeau. Caroline has two children. Caroline performed in Mama dances /1000mains. |
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| Sandrine Vachon |
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Sandrine Vachon est diplômée de LADMMI (les Ateliers de danse moderne de Montréal), du Grant MacEwan Community College (Edmonton) et du cégep de Drummondville en danse contemporaine (interprétation et enseignement). Depuis la fin de sa formation, elle a dansé dans des créations de Lucie Boissinot, Estelle Clareton, Yvonne Coutts, Sonia Delwaide, Mathieu Marleau, Maryse Loranger et Massimo Agostinelli. Elle a participé régulièrement à des productions de la compagnie de danse L’Astragale . Son travail chorégraphique lui vaut plusieurs commandes et ses créations ont été présentées à Montréal (Fringe festival, Tangente, Studio 303, Théâtre LaChapelle) à Drummondville (salle Georges d’Or) et à Trois-Rivières (salle Anaïs-Rousseau). Spécialisée en danse moderne et contemporaine, elle enseigne au programme en danse du cégep de Drummondville et est invitée dans différentes écoles et camps de danse à travers le Québec. Fascinée par la force communicatrice du mouvement, elle continue de se perfectionner en variant son entraînement (hip hop, flamenco, travail somatique!) et en participant à des stages sur les nouvelles approches pédagogiques. |
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photo: Marisa Crockett |
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