We’re looking forward to a big turnout for our event on April 9 and 10 at the
MAI I Montréal, Arts interculturels. The inspiring program is available on our website,
along with the biographies of our remarkable guests.
We can’t wait to see you there!
Photo from the piece *Vierge Noire* (1993) by the Louise Bédard Danse company. Pictured: Michèle Febvre, Christine Charles, Jacqueline Lemieux, Anne-Bruce Falconer, and Michèle Rioux. ©Yves Dubé Tracement: supporting artistsIn this reflective text, Sophie Michaud explores what it means to assist, advise, direct,
mediate, and co-create with those – mainly women – who “support” creation through
their attention, sensitivity, and intelligence. These people – along with dancers and
choreographers – form the practice of dance. She writes, “I have deliberately chosen to
spotlight the work of practitioners whose artistic identity and relationship to
choreographic art have been shaped through the act of dancing.” In an inspiring look on
her own practice and that of her fellow artists, Sophie decodes the art of guiding creation
and outlines the heart of the Tracement project.
Read the engaged text here.
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Tracement, a project by Sophie Michaud
Rehearsal direction and artistic consulting: Appartenances et déclinaisons
Coproduction: Espace Perreault
In the photo: Randal Newman Thread/Bare: when creation encounters traumaA project created, developed and produced by dancer AnneBruce Falconer and visual
artist Randal Newman, Thread/Bare presented a performative installation in November
2024 shaped by vulnerability, interiority, and suffering, but also by healing, laying oneself
bare, and opening up.
Read this text by Randal Newman, which describes in concrete terms the genesis of the
project: the red string around AnneBruce’s head, the photographs of her wrapped head
that were deeply moving and that would become the heart of the project, experiments
with acrylic and plexiglass, the creation of an installation that reawakens the trauma of
the artists who come to create. And his own life experience, which resonated intimately
with the essence of the project.
Read the powerful text here.
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Thread/Bare, a project from AnneBruce Falconer and Randal Newman.
Video co-produced with Espace Perreault
In the photo: Lucy M.May, video screenshot Lucy M. May and Le corps qui chercheLucy M. May takes a slow, deep dive into Fake (2009) by Mélissa Raymond. Drawing
on memories of sensations and emotions, the dancer recalls excerpts from the piece.
“It’s like a particular bodily state is required to receive the language,” she says. At the
same time, she explains that she no longer moves like she did during the creation, since
her body and her being have changed since then. She sees the search for the gesture
as lying not in imitation but in truth. A sensitive inquiry by the dancer in dialogue with the
choreographer.
Watch it here.
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Le corps qui cherche, a project by Mélissa Raymond
Video produced by Espace Perreault
Recording and editing: Maude Archambault-Wakil
Un morceau de chocolat with Linda and Carol PrieurLinda Rabin has supported Carol Prieur as a teacher for more than 30 years.
According to the legendary dancer, Linda opened the doors to research and mystery for
her. From the very beginning, she says, Linda allowed her students “to step into the
unknown in a supported, guided way, where you dive into what becomes a life’s journey.”
For Carol, Linda practices her own personal quest, her search for truth – always in
movement – her relationship to life, with her students in her classes. Her teaching
touches into something almost mystical, something greater than oneself. This
transmission, Carol says, has allowed her – and still allows her – both as a dancer and
as a transmitter of Marie Chouinard’s repertoire, to live fully as who she is, in her truth.
A moving encounter between three great dance artists.
Listen to it here.
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Un morceau de chocolat with Linda
With Linda Rabin and Carol Prieur
Host: Lucie Boissinot
Production: Espace Perreault in partnership with Collectif Legs made up of Emmanuelle
Bourassa Beaudoin, Mathi LP and Nicolas Patry
Recording and editing: Maude Archambault-Wakil
 In the photo: Angélique Willkie and Neil Sochasky, video screenshot In this episode, which could almost be called “Letter to a Young Dance Teacher,”
Angélique Willkie lays out what she sees as fundamental to teaching: offering to share
one’s own experience, starting from an intuition grounded in lived experience, honouring
one’s body, using the body to find your way, and only then moving onto transmission.
And above all, cultivating curiosity and a desire to understand and experiment, so that
the practice of teaching remains aligned with the creative practice.
Watch an embodied pedagogical legacy here.
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Projet Angélique Willkie Project
Production: Jonathan Inksetter
A series created and developed by Emmanuelle Bourassa Beaudoin and Natalie Zoey
Gauld, in partnership with Circuit-Est and Espace Perreault.
Practicing ‘Ori tahiti remotelyIn this reflective text on ‘Ori Tahiti, Marianne Beaulieu explores how she continued
learning the dance during the pandemic and offers insight into a practice she has been
training in since 2016. From online classes and the importance of the group to the
relationship to body image, the dancer addresses it all with openness and candour. A
text worth reading to discover a practice that is not Eurocentric.
A presentation of Territoires partagés, a project about artist training, initiated by Johanna
Biennaise.
Read it here.
From our website, videos and texts to explore again and againCheese. Fragments about a particularly moving solo by Michèle Febvre created by
Nicolas Cantin as part of the intergenerational laboratory initiated and directed by
Katya Montaignac. An interview with dancer Marie-Josée Chartier who recalls the challenges of this unique
piece and reflects on the importance of recreations. Director: Valérie Lessard from
Filigranes Archives. Production: Espace Perreault in partnership with Danse Danse. Le rythme est vivant: un souffle en appelle un autre. Maryse Jeanneau examines
her experience as rehearsal coach for Mozongi for the creation in 1997 and 2001. The
voice and breath of Zab Maboungou encounter the body and mind of the rehearsal
coach.
Espace Perreault is committed to nourishing and inspiring the dance community
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We would like to underscore that the land on which Espace Perreault operates is the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk), a place which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst nations. Espace Perreault would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal and the Caisse de la culture Desjardins for their support in all of these projects.
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