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COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD at Sadler’s Wells

Montreal,May 16, 2016– At the invitation of Sadler’s Wells in London, on June 20 and 21, COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD will present Marie Chouinard’s latest creation Soft virtuosity, still humid, on the edge in a double bill with HENRI MICHAUX : MOUVEMENTS. Before these performances, greatly anticipated by the London audience, the COMPAGNIE will visit Lithuania, Spain, Austria and Bulgaria from May 19 to June 3. Five works from the repertoire will be performed by the ten COMPAGNIE dancers during this European tour: Carol Prieur, Lucy M. May, Leon Kupferschmid, Megan Walbaum, Valeria Galluccio, Paige Culley, Sacha Ouellette-Deguire, Sébastien Cossette-Masse, Scott McCabe and Morgane Le Tiec.

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.

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Information: Ariane Fontaine514 843 9036 # 15 communications@mariechouinard.comwww.mariechouinard.com

bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONSNew Baltic Dance Festival, Vilnius (May 19)

Soft virtuosity, still humid, on the edge and HENRI MICHAUX : MOUVEMENTSFestival de Teatro y Artes de Calle, Valladolid (May 24)Bregenzer Frühling, Bregenz (May 28)Sadler’s Wells, London (June 20-21)

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and The Rite of SpringNational Palace of Culture, Sofia (May 31)Varna Summer International Theatre Festival, Varna (June 3)

HENRI MICHAUX : MOUVEMENTS / Photo: Sylvie-Ann Paré / Dancers: Gérard Reyes, Mariusz Ostrowski, James Viveiros, Lucy M. May, Lucie Mongrain, Leon Kupferschmid, Carol Prieur

“So good it’s scary! The Compagnie Marie Chouinard dazzled the audience with a passionate double bill [Soft virtuosity, still humid, on the edge and HENRI MICHAUX : MOUVEMENTS].” - Wilhelm Triebold, Tagblatt, Stuttgart, 2015

“Chouinard and her excellent dancers achieve a virtuoso meditation on the beauty and fragilty of the human body.” - Sandra Luzina (Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 2005) about bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS

For more information on the COMPAGNIE’s works, visit our website: mariechouinard.com

Soft virtuosity, still humid, on the edge / Photo: Nicolas RuelDancers: Megan Walbaum, James Viveiros, Paige Culley