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Name
Marie Chouinard
Role
Choreographer
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Marie Chouinard, OC (born 14 May 1955) is a Canadian dancer, choreographer, and dance company director.
In 1978 Chouinard presented her first work, Crystallization. After 12 years as a solo performer and choreographer, Chouinard founded her own company in 1990, the Compagnie Marie Chouinard.
Chouinard has lived in many places including: New York, Berlin, Bali and Nepal. She has created more than 50 solo and group works. Chouinard's works since 1978 reflect her view of dance as a sacred art, her respect for the body as a vehicle of that art, her virtuoso approach to performance and the invention of a different universe for each new piece. In 1988, Marie Chouinard along with Wim Vandekeybus and Mark Tompkins, for the first time introduced the ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival. Chouinard is still closely connected with ImPulsTanz, which meanwhile has grown to Europe’s biggest contemporary festival.
Performances and solo works
1978 : Cristallisation
1979 : Cristallisation (les 5 cycles)
1979 : Dimanche matin, mai 1955
1979 : Danse pour un homme habillé de noir et qui porte un revolver
1979 : 5 Chorégraphies pour le public pieds nus
1979 : Les oeufs, ou autrefois il y avait, il y a longtemps, au temps où...
1980 : Voyages dans les limbes
1980 : Auto-portrait no 1
1980 : Auto-portrait no 2
1980 : Petite danse sans nom
1980 : Les Grenouilles
1980 : Mimas, Lune de Saturne
1980 : La Leçon
1980 : Dislocations
1980 : Chanson de gestes
1980 : Quelques façons d'avancer tranquillement vers toi
1980 : Jaune
1980 : Récréation
1980 : Dimanche matin,mai 2005
1980 : Conversations
1981 : Plaisir de tous les sens dans tous les sens
1981 : Danseuse-performeuse cherche amoureux ou amoureuse pour la nuit de 1er juin
1982 : Meat meets meat, avec Claude-Marie Caron
1982 : Marie Chien Noir (Mimas, Lune de Saturne; Chien Noir et Plaisirs de tous les sens dans tous les sens)
1984 : Table of Contents I
1985 : Chebre,avec Claude-Marie Caron
1985 : Earthquake in the Heartchakra; Table of Contents II
1986 : Drive in the Dragon; Crue; S.T.A.B.(Space, Time and Beyond)
1987 : L'Après-midi d'un faune
1988 : Biophilia
1989 : Poèmes d'atmosphère
1990 : Lettre ouverte à Terpsichore
1992 : Endangered species; Cet instant-ci et l'éternité; Terpsichore a cappella
2010 : Lingam, Campagne
2012 : In Museum
Choreography works
1991 : Les Trous du ciel
1993 : The Rite of the Spring
1994 : Prelude to the afternoon of a faun
1996 : L’Amande et le diamant
1998 : Les Solos 1978-1998
1998 : Étude piognate
1998 : Humanitas
1999 : Des feux dans la nuit
1999 : 24 Preludes by Chopin
2000 : Le Cri du monde
2001 : Étude no 1
2003 : Chorale
2005 : Mouvements
2005 : bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS
2008 : ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE
2009 : morning glories
2010 : THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE)
2012 : Henri Michaux: Mouvements
2013 : Gymnopédies
Works of Marie Chouinard in repertory of other companies
2003 : Prelude to the afternoon of a faun and The Rite of the Spring/Ballet Gulbenkian, Portugal
2008 : 24 preludes by Chopin/ Ballet national de Toronto, Canada
2009 : Prelude to the afternoon of a faun/São Paulo Companhia de Dança, Brésil
Film
2003 : Cantique no 1
2008 : bODY_rEMIx/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS (produced by Amérimage-Spectra and realized by Marie Chouinard)
Multiscreen film
2003 : Cantique no 2
Installations
2004 : Cantique no 3 (participative installation created with Louis Dufort)
2009 : Icônes (video installation created with Luc Courchesne)
Awards and distinctions
1981 - Studio du Québec à New York (Gouvernement du Québec), first recipient awarded to Marie Chouinard
1986 - Prize Jacqueline-Lemieux awarded to Marie Chouinard
1987 - Jean A. Chalmers awarded to Marie Chouinard
1993 - Prize Artist Lifetime Achievement awarded to Marie Chouinard
1994 - Prize Boat Award (Glasgow, Scotland) for The Rite of the Spring
2000 - Bessie Award for sustained achievement (New York)awarded to Marie Chouinard
2003 - The French Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers award SACD, Paris
2003 - The movie Cantique no 1 receives a prize at the Moving Pictures Festival of Danse on Film and Video, Toronto (performance prize for Carol Prieur and Benoît Lachambre)
2003 - National Arts Center Award, a companion award of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards
2006 - Archanget Award for Le vol de Lindbergh and Les 7 Péchés capitaux, choreographed by Marie Chouinard, Edinburgh Festival
2006 - Grand Prix du Conseil des Arts de Montreal for the Company's impact on Montreal dance and is workbODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS
2007 - Officier of the Ordre of Canada awarded to Marie Chouinard
2009 - Gemini Award (Best Performance in a Performing Arts Program or Series) awarded to COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD dancers for their performance in the movie bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS
2009 - Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France awarded to Marie Chouinard
2010 - COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD was awarded by the Imperial Tobacco Foundation's Arts Achievement Award 2010
2010 - Prix du Québec (Denise Pelletier Prize)awarded to Marie Chouinard
