Compagnie Marie Chouinard

Marie Chouinard was born in Quebec. At the age of 16, she spent four months alone in Percé, a seaside village in the Gaspé Peninsula known for its iconic rock formation—an experience that would transform her life. As a choreographer, she traveled the world over as soloist for 12 years before founding the COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD in 1990. Her works, radical and deeply resonant, with a singular signature, have stood the test of time and are part of the repertoires of major international ballet companies. She is also a director (films, apps, virtual reality works), an author (Zéro Douze, Chantiers des extases), and a visual artist (photography, drawings, installations, performance). She creates choreographic works for site-specific installations, for the screen, and in real-time for the web. She was named an Officière des Arts et des Lettres in France, is a Bessie Award recipient in New York, and has a star on the Walk of Fame in Sibiu, Romania. She has received some thirty of the most prestigious awards and honors. In 2011, she founded the Prix de la Danse de Montréal, and from 2017 to 2020, she served as Director of Dance at the Venice Biennale. Marie Chouinard is currently preparing a solo exhibition of her visual and performance works (2027).