Dancers
Anna Bozzini
A graduate of Les Ateliers de danse moderne de Montréal since 1998,
Anna Bozzini has also studied ballet, singing, piano and flamenco. She holds
a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and is currently studying Osteopathy.
A cofounder of the collective La Fabrique Rouge, she has danced with La Compagnie
Sursaut for four years and has collaborated with various choreographers, including
Audrey Lehouillier, Sarah Bild, Parise Mongrain, Sara Hanley, Claude Pilon,
Erin Flynn and Hinda Essadiqi. In 1999, she participated as an apprentice
in the creation of the solo Délire défait with Benoît
Lachambre. She also took part in the making of a documentary on dance –
A Stone in the Sky – and co-directed a dance film entitled IN
TRANSIT. She joined the Compagnie De Brune in December 2002.
Cristian Duarte
Brazilian dancer and choreographer, Cristian Duarte graduated in Advertising
and Creation of the Mackenzie University in São Paulo. Since 1994,
he has been dedicated to contemporary dance, artistic creations, investigative
projects and body studies.
He is a co-founder of Companhia Nova Dança, where he collaborated during
6 years, which allowed him to further his studies and approaches on improvisation,
theatre and creative processes. In 1998, he developed his first solo work
pressa, receiving the São Paulo Critics Association Award (APCA
1998) and the National Mambembe Award (FUNARTE). In 2000, he received a grant
from the Brazilian Government (CAPES) to deepen his researches and join the
second cycle in the choreography department of P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts,
Research and Training Studios), the school in Brussels directed by Anne Teresa
De Keersmaeker.
In 2002, Cristian created the trio middle high tones, presented in
Europe and Brazil. In 2003, he created the short piece from this moment
on… for the Laban Centre in London, a collaboration with Shani Granot.
His quartet embodied was premiered in Holland and will be presented
in other European cities and Brazil in 2004. In 2003, he premiered a solo
work in São Paulo alta necessidade, receiving the APCA 2003.
AnneBruce Falconer
Born in Winnipeg in 1967, AnneBruce Falconer entered The Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s
Professional Program in 1980. In 1987, AnneBruce started her professional career
at Contemporary Dancers' under the direction of Tedd Robinson. AnneBruce
left Winnipeg in 1989 to study under Peter Boneham and to participate in the
creation of the renowned Dance Lab at Le Groupe de la Place Royale. After two
years in Ottawa, she left to start her free-lance career in Montreal.
For eleven years AnneBruce developed a close artistic relationship and rich collaboration with Jean-Pierre Perreault, interpreting and creating the major works of his repertoire: L’Exil–L’Oubli, Les Annees de Pelerinage, Eironos, La Vita, L’Instinct, Nuit, and Adieux. During this period, AnneBruce also built a strong connection to Louise Bedard, dancing numerous full-length works for her company. In February 2005, AnneBruce paid homage to Louise Bedard by dancing Ex Libris, a solo constructed to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Louise Bedard Danse.
AnneBruce Falconer has danced and toured the world for numerous choreographers; Catherine Tardif, Harold Rheaume, Helene Blackburn, Margie Gillis, Bill Coleman, Dominique Dumas, Charmaine Leblanc, and Estelle Clareton. She has worked on research for Ex Machina and recently initiated a solo project in collaboration with Robert Lepage. She is a respected teacher, rehearsal mistress, and artistic consultant. Working with The National Ballet of Canada for Jean-Pierre Perreault’s last creation; The Comforts of Solitude.
AnneBruce started working with Lynda Gaudreau and Compagnie De Brune in 1992 with Anatomie. She has been in creation, performed and rehearsed many of Lynda’s repertoire including; Still Life No 1, DOCUMENT 1, DOCUMENT 2, and DOCUMENT 3. AnneBruce traveled to Israel in 1996 with Lynda Gaudreau for her creation on The Batsheva Ensemble, 100 mouvements.
Karen Guttman
Bachelor in visual arts from Concordia University of Montreal, Karen Guttman
works as a dancer, choreographer and in video. She was a company member of
Le Groupe Dance Lab (Peter Boneham) in Ottawa for four years. She has produced
videos through residencies at Saw Video Co-op (Ottawa), Daimon Production
Centre and La Bande Video (Quebec) which have been screened across Canada
and internationally. Her choreography has been presented at Tangente (Montreal),
the Loft (Brussels), the Canada Dance Festival and Le Groupe Studio A Series
(Ottawa). Karen is the recipient of the Brian Webb Choreographic Award 1997
and the Dennis Tourbin Emerging Artist Award 2001.
Sophie Janssens
Belgian-born artist Sophie Janssens received her dance training in her native
country and at the Dance Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. After studying
ballet and modern dance (Cunningham, Limon, Release, and Graham), she taught
ballet and the Pilates method in Montreal, New York, The Netherlands and Belgium.
As a dancer, she has worked with the Januari Company (The Netherlands), the
Rotterdamse Dansgroep, and Canadian choreographers Irène Stamou, Howard
Richard and Mariko Tanabe.
Kelly Keenan
Graduated from Les Ateliers de Danse Moderne of Montreal in 2001, Kelly was
also part of the school’s work-study performances and projects. She received
grants from the Danceweb and the Canada Council to attend the Impulstanz Festival
in Vienna and most recently to further her studies with dancer-choreographer
Frey Faust. She has danced for Massimo Agostinelli and also with the collective
Sanaviel. Kelly toured an experimental dance theatre piece for seven months
throughout the Eastern States with the Caravan Stage Barge. Since the fall
of 2003, she is a member of La Compagnie de Brune.
Sophie Lavigne
Sophie Lavigne studied dance at the Université du Québec à Montréal,
completing her baccalaureate studies in dance education in 1995 and dance
interpretation in 1998. At the end of her studies she was awarded the William
Douglas Prize from the UQAM Foundation. As a dancer, she has worked with
many choreographers including Ginette Prévost, Motaz Kabbani, Roger
Sinha, Mariko Tanabe, Gaétan Gingras, and Deborah Dunn. Sophie joined Lynda
Gaudreau’s
Compagnie De Brune in February 2002. In addition to her career as a dancer,
Sophie works also as a rehearsal director, for choreographers such as Heloise
Rémy, and teaches periodically at College Montmorency's dance department.
Monique Romeiko
Monique Romeiko is a Montreal based dancer, choreographer, teacher and rehearsal
director. Recently she has collaborated with artists Andrew Forrester,
Yvette Nolan, Shawna Kennedy and Illona Dougherty. She has been a member
of Compagnie De Brune since 2002.
Ken Roy
Born in Nova Scotia but living in Montréal since 1989, Ken Roy has collaborated
with Jean-Pierre Perreault for over a decade, taking primary roles in all the
choreographers creations for his company, including Joe (1991), Eironos (1995),
Les Années de Pélerinage (1996), L'Exil L'Oubli (1999)
and Nuit (2002).
Other choreographers of note with which he has collaborated include: Sylvain Émard,
Hélène Blackburn, Danièle Desnoyers, Daniel Léveillé and
Tassy Teekman. As well, Ken Roy was a member of Le Groupe de la Place Royale
during the development of the Dance Lab under the direction of Peter Boneham,
who also created for him Solo 1 & Solo 2. In 1997, he danced in two other
solo works: Ravished by the Break of Dawn by Ireni Stamou and Soli by Tassy Teekman.
In 1999 he was invited by Danse-Cité artistic director Daniel Soulières
to create his own evening, Projet Roy, which was first presented at the Monument-National.
Recently the Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video awarded Ken
Roy the prize for Best Onscreen Performance for his interpretation of Berceuseby Louise Bédard.
Collaborators
Lucie Bazzo Lighting
Still Life Nº 1 (1996)
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Lucky Bastard
After studying at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Québec, Lucie Bazzo worked with several theatre directors, including Robert Lepage in La Trilogie des dragons and Les Plaques tectoniques. Highly valued by the dance world, she specializes in lighting design for unconventional sites. Her spatial vision has enhanced the works of such Quebecois choreographers as Jocelyne Montpetit, Louise Bédard, Irène Stamou, Sarah Bild, and Catherine Tardif. Lucie Bazzo was also the driving force behind Luminosités variables, an event presented in Montreal in September 1999.
Annie Lebel (Atelier in situ) Scenography
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Winner of the Rome Prize for Architecture in 2001 and of the Ordre des architectes du Québec's Grand Prix d'Excellence in 1998 for the Zone Building, the collective Atelier in situ (Annie Lebel, Geneviève L'Heureux, and Stéphane Pratte) has been working together since 1995, defining an architectural practice that challenges the traditional boundaries. Their cross-disciplinary approach enables them to tackle architectural projects, installations, and stage design. The Atelier has created multiple installations (Projections, Transfert, and s(e)izing nyc) and has designed exhibitions such as Métissages and Marcelle Ferron. In 2001, the Atelier collaborated with Quebecois choreographer Hélène Blackburn on Espace Dynamique at the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault.
Christof Migone Sound Design
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Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist established in New York whose performances and installations have been presented internationally. He holds a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design and is currently completing a PhD at New York University's Department of Performance Studies. Co-editor of Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language, his writings have appeared in numerous publications such as Musicworks, Semiotext(e), and Radio Rethink. Christof Migone has also collaborated with various artists, including choreographer Tammy Forsythe, writer and audio artist Gregory Whitehead, and composers Alexandre St-Onge and Michel F. Côté. This founding member of Avatar in Quebec City has also produced five compact discs.
Robert Normandeau Music
Still Life Nº 1 (1996)
Robert Normandeau holds a MMus and DMus in Composition from the Université de Montréal, where he has also been teaching at the Faculty of Music since 1988. He is one of the founding members of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community and of Réseaux, a concert society dedicated to media art. He has won numerous international music competitions in France, Italy, Sweden, and Austria, including the First Prize at the 2002 Festival of Sacred Music of Freiburg, Switzerland, for his work Chorus 2002. He has been one of the guest composers of the Métamorphoses d'Orphée studios (Ohain, Belgium), of the Banff Centre for the Arts, and of the Groupe de recherches musicales in Paris (France).
Alexandre St-Onge Sound Design
Encyclopœdia – DOCUMENT 3
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Alexandre St-Onge is nothing at all, but would like to move slowly towards the impossible – to remain suspended between "nothing" and "all." Following this ruined logic, his pieces could be described as expressions of the void, of silence, through acoustic spaces whose force derives from transparency: Une mâchoire et deux trous and Image/Négation are examples. His work reflects a radical responsibility towards others, be they groups (Undo with Christof Migone, and Klaxon Gueule with Michel F. Côté and Bernard Falaise) or individuals (Magali Babin, John Heward, Éric Létourneau, Maryse Poulin, Samuel Roy-Bois, Rainer Wiens).
Martin Tétreault Composer
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Martin Tétreault, an internationally-renowned Montreal DJ and improviser, originally came from the milieu of the visual arts. His path has been marked out by various productions on compact disc and live performances with a range of collaborators: Diane Labrosse, René Lussier, Jean Derome, Michel F. Côté, I8U, Otomo Yoshihide, Kevin Drumm, Xavier Charles, Ikue Mori, and many more. He has abandoned the musical citation that he had been using in his work since he began in 1985 and now explores the intrinsic qualities of the turntable: the sound of the motor, of interference, and so on. He also uses needles, prepared surfaces (with thanks to John Cage), and small electronic instruments. The bruitiste approach of remaining analogical has allowed him to leave behind the question But what about royalties? and to get himself invited to electronic-music events! When he feels the need for a break from music, he goes back to the visual arts, where he sands, scrapes, cuts up books and magazines, and so on.
Pierre Jorge Gonzalez Scenographer
Time flies
In 1999 Pierre Jorge Gonzalez founded a multi-disciplinary studio in Paris
and Berlin. The focus was on architecture, as well as on adjacent disciplines
such as scenography, lighting, and design.
Working together with Richard Gluckman and Robert Wilson and the development
of their Watermill Center in New York gave Gonzalez his first occasion
to reflect upon the presentation of contemporary art.
Conceiving a contemporary art gallery or a stage design for a dance
performance often follows the same lines. It is about eradicating the
very signs and
installations that overtly reveal the space as a place for exhibitions
and performances - the essential factor is here the relation between
lighting and construction.
Another typical feature of these works is a certain spatial tension -
created by the invisible traces of bodies moving through the space and
by the nature
of how light is perceived - that generates its own forms of construction.
As is the case in architecture, these projects draw their strength from
their very limitations by using the given means as primary elements.
The environment,
the budget, construction materials and methods are all brought together
into an aesthetic play.
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