LAUREATES - 2014

Photo : Eva Würdinger

MEG STUART, Choreographer

GRAND PRIX DE LA DANSE DE MONTRÉAL

BIOGRAPHY Meg Stuart is an American choreographer and dancer, born in New Orleans, living and working in Berlin and Brussels. Stuart decided to move to New York in 1983 and studied dance at New York University. She continued her training at Movement Research where she explored numerous release techniques and was actively involved in the […]

Photo : Compagnie Marie Chouinard

CAROL PRIEUR, Performer

Prix INTERPRÈTE de la danse de Montréal

BIOGRAPHY Carol Prieur was born in Paris, spent her childhood years in Ireland, and arrived in Canada at age eleven. After dancing in the Arts Umbrella Youth Dance Company (1985-1988) and at Simon Fraser University (1988-1989), she began her professional career with the Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers (1989-1992). She participated in a number of creations, performing […]

Photo : Emilie Renck

BENOÎT LACHAMBRE, Choreographer

Prix du CALQ pour la meilleure œuvre chorégraphique 2019-2020 artistic season

PRISMES BIOGRAPHY In this choreographic work, Benoît Lachambre plunges the six Montréal Danse performers and the audience into a game of perceptions, scrutinizing the dancers’ physical presence, and using radiant luminosity, exploring how bodies furtively interact with each other. The choreographer heightens the presence of his performers by an interplay of vivid, fluctuating, sometimes jarringly […]