Lynda Gaudreau
Choreographer and Artistic Director

 

 

Active as a choreographer since 1991, Lynda Gaudreau founded the Compagnie De Brune and launched an international career in 1992. Her very personal approach, which involves gestual, human, and corporal figures, is inspired by architecture, music, and the visual arts. Today the choreographer’s research and creation takes place on a much larger scale, embracing movement, sound, text, and video as choreographic materials. The openness and range of this approach have enabled her to develop a number of choreographic projects (works for the stage, installations, laboratories, events, and video projects) and to explore a number of venues, from the conventional theatre and the museum to the multimedia library and port facilities. Central to her concerns and to her work are risk, questioning, and innovation in the practice of dance. In collaboration with artists from dance and other disciplines, the choreographer pursues her deep exploration of choreographic creation by inviting artists to take part in her works or by developing projects with and for her peers.

From 1999 to 2005, Lynda Gaudreau devoted herself to the Encyclopœdia project, a choreographic suite for which she created four DOCUMENT(S), a series of works comprised of dance, exhibitions, video documents, and text. As guest curator at FIND 2003, she set up the Lucky Bastard laboratory, a series of evenings where approximately thirty Montreal artists from different creative disciplines came together to take part in performances and improvisations, with creative exchange as the focus. In May 2004, a second Lucky Bastard laboratory was presented at the Festival Ile Danse in Ajaccio, Corsica. The following month, Lynda Gaudreau went to Vienna to present Time flies, an installation commissioned by TanzQuartier Wien in Austria. The choreographer invited ten artists from Europe, Canada, and Brazil to participate in this project by contributing sound and video material. A second version of this installation was created for the Nottdance Festival in the United Kingdom in May 2005.

The choreographer and her Compagnie De Brune have collaborated with some of the most prestigious artistic organizations in Quebec, Canada, and Europe. Lynda Gaudreau also frequently receives invitations from around the world to give workshops and lectures. She has taught in Canada, Brazil, Austria, Germany, France, Spain, Croatia, and Israel, as well as at the famous P.A.R.T.S. school (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels, Belgium.

In 2006 Lynda Gaudreau was artistic advisor for dance to the Festival TransAmériques (Montreal) for nine months. The same year, the choreographer launched her Clash project, an event on and for creation in dance, co-produced by the Compagnie De Brune and Tangente. 0101, her latest piece was presented for the first time in August 2006 at the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna, Austria. It has since toured in Italy and France.