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Creative Process
Louise Bédard | Marc Boivin |Dave St-Pierre
Louise Bédard
With a long career behind her, Louise Bédard continues to be very active in the Montreal dance scene. She has created over twenty choreographic works for her own company, Louise Bédard Danse, as well as for other artists.As performer and choreographer, Louise is constantly searching for the essence of movement in order to build a choreographic language that depicts the complexity and fragility of living beings with poetry, humour and irony. The result is effervescent works characterized by a very personal and exceptionally lucid approach. The sounds and colours are often inspired by other art forms, or by works from foreign cultures such as: Elles (2002), Ce qu'il en reste (2005) and Enfin vous Zestes (2008), choreographic cycle of Itinéraire multiple.
The workshop will focus mainly on exploring movement with the intention of creating choreographic material for the next Louise Bédard Danse production.
Emphasis will be put on the exploration of movement and body language linked to a specific theme or concept each day. Thus the space, body states and sensory material created will help to construct a language made up of various choreographed segments in which different atmospheres are superimposed. The choreographer will also bring out the dancers' creativity through guided improvisation. She will draw on the dancers' capacity to invest themselves and to interpret the suggested material by appropriating it in their own way.
Marc Boivin
Dancer, improviser, teacher and choreographer, Marc Boivin begins his dance career at Le Groupe de la Place Royale in Ottawa under the directorship of Peter Boneham and in 1985 joins Ginette Laurin and her newly formed company O Vertigo Danse. Since 1991 he has worked as an independent dancer, performing mainly for Louise Bédard, Sylvain Emard, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Catherine Tardif, Tedd Robinson and most recently in some of his own works, R.A.F.T. 70 and Impact. Affiliated with LADMMI, l'école de danse contemporaine, since 1987, Boivin is regularly a guest teacher and choreographer in schools and professional organizations across Canada. He is president of the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault since 2006.In 2007, Marc Boivin was given carte blanche by Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood to develop an improvisation project for his company AH HA Productions. This process, which gave rise to the piece R.A.F.T. 70, was an epiphany for Boivin, giving access to a new creative potential residing between improvisation and choreography. This new path led to the creation of the solo Impact in 2008, followed in 2009 by The Fictions project, in Toronto, including the commissions Withrow Park (for Duskdances) and Fictions: Chroma key (for firstthingsfirst productions). In his perspective, the choreographic act and the scenic event evolve through communicating vessels, those participating in a shared project exchange knowledge, energy, a research and and an appropriation of movement. This is the direction that the dancer wishes to take from now on in his work. The organisation of artistic proposition and esthetics involves an openess to serendipidy and to the resonance that our actions leave behind.
Dave St-Pierre
Dave St-Pierre started his career as a dancer and actor at a very young age. He studied litterature and cinema in Cegep and, after training at LADMMI for one year, he joined the company Brouhaha Danse for whom he danced for over six years. Dave performed internationally with various choreographers such as Harold Rhéaume, Jean-Pierre Perrault, Estelle Clareton, Pierre-Paul Savoie, Alain Francoeur and Daniel Léveillé. He has created several choreographic works like the acclaimed trilogy Sociologie et autres utopies contemporaines. The first piece, La pornographie des âmes (2004), won the Mouson Award in Frankfurt. The following pieces, Un peu de tendresse, bordel de merde (2006) and Over My Dead Body (2009), were also praised internationally by both the critics and the public. In 2009 Dave wins a Movimentos de Wolfsburg Prize. In less than five year, Dave St-Pierre has become one of the most sought after choreographers. Bold, crude and humorous, his choreographies have touched and shocked people all over the world.The workshop will focus on familiarizing participants with Dave St-Pierre's personal approach to choreography.
