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Louise Bédard

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Louise Bédard (born 1955) is a Canadian dancer, choreographer and teacher who is active on the contemporary dance. After completing her dance training, notably with Groupe Nouvelle Aire, Louise Bédard was quickly noticed as a talented performer. During the 1980s, she collaborated with many choreographers, among them Jean-Pierre Perreault, Paul-André Fortier, Ginette Laurin, Jeanne Renaud, Sylvain Émard. Already in 1984, Bédard was awarded the Canada Council’s Jacqueline-Lemieux Award, for her outstanding work. In 1987, she co-founded the Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique that currently provides her with rehearsal and creation space. A highly soft-after performer by a generation of choreographers, Louise Bédard formed her own company in 1990: Louise Bédard Danse. She is also one of the founding members of Circuit-Est Centre Chorégrahique and has been a guest professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal Dance Department from 2006 to 2010. Throughout her career, she has received numerous awards such as the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize in 1983, the prestigious Prix d'Auteur des Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis in 1996 and the Jean A. Chalmers National Dance Award in 1997. More recently, she and her company were nominated as the dance finalist for the 2005 and 2016 Grand Prize of the Conseil des Arts de Montréal. She was awarded in November 2018 by The Prix de la Danse de Montréal in performance category for a solo in Tout ce qui va revient, a work by Catherine Gaudet presented in Théâtre La Chapelle. Perspectives possibles and Braise blanche (1990) were among the company’s first productions followed by a male quartet, Les Métamorphoses clandestines (1992) and a women’s quintet Vierge noire (1993). In 1996, Louise Bédard Danse was awarded the Seine-Saint-Denis International Choreographer’s prize for her sextet creation Dans les fougères foulées du regard, and also received the Chalmers National Dance Award (1997) for both Cartes postales de Chimère and Dans les fougères foulées du regard.
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