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Montreal,August24,2016– COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD will visit China for the first time as part of a two-week tour. It will present 24 Preludes by Chopin and The Rite of Spring, two outstanding works from its repertoire, in Beijing, Shanghai and Xi’an.
24 Preludes by Chopin & The Rite of Spring- Beijing New Dance Festival, Beijing, August 27 and 28- Daning Theatre, Shanghai, September 2 and 3- Silk Road International Arts Festival, Xi’an, September 8 and 9
Created in 1999, 24 Preludes by Chopin is "an absolute delight". - J. Autumn Needles, Edge Seattle, 2013.
With The Rite of Spring (1993), "Marie Chouinard presents us with a series of solos with incredible power of evocation. [She] inscribes her Sacre in a history of the twentieth century, in the wake of those of Nijinsky, Pina Bausch and Maurice Béjart." - Philippe Noisette, Les Échos, France, 2016.
AboutMARIECHOUINARDandtheCOMPAGNIEFor twenty-five years, the COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD has performed in the most prestigious theatres and festivals around the world. The COMPAGNIE dancers deliver brilliant, daring works which introduce singular worlds created by Marie Chouinard. The art of choreography is also explored on multiple platforms: interactive multimedia, film, photography, drawing, performance, writing.
Marie Chouinard is a true cultural ambassador for Quebec. She has won several awards for her contribution to dance and the arts, including the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award (Canada, 2016), the Ordre national du Québec (2015), the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec (2015), the Prix culturel Samuel de Champlain (France, 2014), the prix Denise-Pelletier (Quebec, 2010), the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 2009), the Order of Canada (2007), the Grand Prix du Conseil des arts de Montréal (2006) and the Bessie Award (New York, 2000). In 2012, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec has awarded the first CALQ award for best choreographic work of 2011-2012 to Marie Chouinard for THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE). The name of Marie Chouinard became a dictionary entry in Le Petit Larousse illustré in 2010 and in Le Robert in 2011.
Marie Chouinard is the Venice Biennale’s director of dance.
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Information: Ariane Fontaine514 843 9036 # 15 [email protected]
Next, a fall tour in Europe will take the team to Arcachon, September 24 and Cagliari on September 29 and 30. Invited for the second consecutive year to the MilanOltre Festival, the COMPAGNIE will once again present five of its repertoire works from October 4 to 9, including Marie Chouinard’s most recent creation: HIERONYMUS BOSCH: THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS. The Bruges audience will also have the chance to see this new choreographic work on October 14.
For details, see the performance calendar on the COMPAGNIE website:http://www.mariechouinard.com/2016-544.html
Photo : The Rite of Spring / Photo: Marie Chouinard / Dancers: Mathilde Monnard, Dominique Porte