Catherine Gaudet
© Mathieu Doyon
Creation Laboratory
This workshop is conceived as a research and exploration laboratory where, through various avenues—visualizations, phantasmagoria, and role-playing—the choreographer will develop a style created directly on the dancers. The aim is to approach an ambiguous, shifting, ever-complex, even contradictory, sensitive posture from which the choreographic material will take shape.
Participants will be invited to explore a corporeality woven from subtle physical and psychological contradictions, where each individual's conscious and unconscious resistances and impulses will become active compositional materials.
In close collaboration with the participants, and through the interweaving of their creative intuitions with the choreographer's vision and writing, the workshop will seek this multifaceted state that constantly shifts, unfolds, and metamorphoses, in order to delve into the development of a dramaturgy of transformation.
Catherine Gaudet
©Julie Artacho
Creation Laboratory
June 6 to 12
2:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
(20 hours)
École de Danse Contemporaine
de Montréal
Studio: to be confirmed
Pricing and
Registration
Member DAC - $ 220
Standard - $ 360
*This workshop may be partially reimbursed through the RQD Dancer Training Support Program . Please verify directly with the RQD.
Catherine Gaudet
Catherine Gaudet completed a bachelor's and a master's degree in the Dance Department at the University of Quebec at Montreal. She began her career as a performer with various choreographers before embarking on her own choreographic research in 2004. She gained recognition in the following years with Grosse fatigue – which won an award at the Arhus International Choreography Competition (Denmark) – and L’arnaque. In 2009, she explored the effects of lack in her first full-length work, L’invasion du vide. In Je suis un autre (2012), she scratched beneath the surface of social facades to reveal the ambiguity of individuals grappling with their contradictions, an intention she continued in Au sein des plus raides vertus in 2014. In 2016, she co-created with director Jérémie Niel La très excellent et lamentable tragédie de Roméo et Juliette, a piece that transposes the Shakespearean legend into a melancholic chamber drama. In 2018, she created Tout ce qui va revient (Everything That Goes Returns), combining three female solos, as well as L’affadissement du merveilleux (The Fading of the Marvelous), a piece for five dancers based on the hypnotic insistence of the cycle. In 2021, she created the solo Se dissoudre (Dissolving), which explores the perception of time as an illusory phenomenon, and presented Les jolies choses (Pretty Things) at the 2022 FTA (Festival du Théâtre d'Angoulême), a work for five performers. In 2023, she created Les mondes parallèles (Parallel Worlds), performed by Louise Bédard and Sarah Williams, and Mains moistes (Moist Hands), a solo for Francis Ducharme, which she co-created with director Brigitte Haentjens. 2024 saw the culmination of her first large-scale work, danced by 11 performers, ODE, produced by CCOV – Centre de création O Vertigo and presented at the FTA. In recent years, the international reach of Catherine Gaudet's work has grown significantly. Her work has been presented in Lyon (Biennale de la Danse), Paris (Chaillot), Barcelona (Mercat de les Flores), Porto (DDD Festival), Madrid (Festival Otono), and Dublin (Dance Festival), among other venues. Catherine received the GRAND PRIX DE LA DANSE de Montréal in 2022 and the International Diffusion Award in 2023 from CINARS. She is currently the artistic and general director of Compagnie Catherine Gaudet, a member of Circuit-Est Centre chorégraphique and the Regroupement québécois de la danse, an associate artist with Agora de la danse, and receives development services from DLD.