In 1978 Marie Chouinard presented her first work, Crystallization, which immediately established her as an exceptional artist driven by an infectious search for the genuine. After 12 years as a solo performer and choreographer, Marie Chouinard founded her own company in 1990, the COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD.
Marie Chouinard has lived in New York, Berlin, Bali and Nepal. Her travels, her curiosity, her eclectic studies and her understanding of various techniques allow her to explore the body in different ways. She has created more than 50 solo and group works. The works created since 1978 reflect the concerns of this surprising choreographer: 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 Marie Chouinard’s alphabet, elements respond to one another as in a classical structure while integrating different cultural understandings of the body as infinitely intelligent. Her raw material is the dancers’ flesh, bones and muscles, the instinct and vital impulse of the human body whose intimate connections she exposes. As a carrier of meaning, each gesture becomes the “phoneme” of a thought imbedded in the body, while form reflects the dancer’s soul as it resides in organs, cells and energetic circuits. Celebrating the human body as a vehicle of life, Marie Chouinard and her contributors work together to create choreographic pieces that reveal a world of primal light, coded sounds and protean forms, through vigorous and incandescent movements.
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
Choregraphique works of COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD
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 MAN (LIVE)
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, Scotlan) 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, Ottawa, as part of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards
2006 - Archanget Award forLe vol de LindberghandLes 7 Péchés capitaux,choreographed by MarieChouinard, Edinburgh Festival
2006 - Grand Prix du Conseil des Arts de Montreal for the Company's impact on Montreal dance and is workbODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARITATIONS
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_vARITATIONS
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
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