COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate distribution Canadian premiere for HIERONYMUS BOSCH: THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Marie Chouinard was invited to create this choreographic work by the Jheronimus
Bosch 500 Foundation, which this year commemorates the 500th anniversary of the
death of the famous Dutch painter. The world premiere took place on August 4 at the
Theaterfestival Boulevard in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, the painter’s birthplace.
The work was also acclaimed at the Festival Veranos de la Villa in Madrid, the ImPulsTanz
Vienna International Dance Festival, the Operaestate Festival Veneto in Bassano del
Grappa and, most recently, the MilanOltre Festival and the Cultuurcentrum in Bruges.
“A picture theater! And an extraordinary one at that! […] Chouinard successfully pulls
off the feat of actually bringing the Bosch triptych to life. […] Magnificent, delightful, but
also startlingly well performed by the excellent and versatile dancers of the Compagnie
Marie Chouinard. A picture theater that brings us a new vision of the work (works) of
Hieronymus Bosch.” - Dina Ruttle, Tanzchrift, Vienna, August 2016.
This work in three acts for ten dancers, lasting 75 minutes, presents the three panels of
the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights:
Act 1: The Garden of Earthly Delights (central panel);
Act 2: Hell (right panel);
Act 3: Paradise (left panel).
“Just as a choreographer can start with a piece of music in order to create, I am starting with the painting by Bosch. And just as a
choreographer can choose to “stick” to a musical score (or not), I have chosen to “stick” to Bosch’s painting, its spirit. The joy of bowing
before a masterpiece!” - Marie Chouinard.
Informations:
HIERONYMUS BOSCH: THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS
Grand Théâtre de Québec – Salle Louis-Fréchette
269, René Lévesque East, Quebec City
November 1, 2016 at 8 p.m.
Tickets: http://www.grandtheatre.qc.ca/spectacles/compagnie-marie-chouinard-1995.html
About MARIE CHOUINARD and the COMPAGNIE
Marie Chouinard is the Executive and Artistic Director of COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD, Director of Dance at the Venice Biennale,
Founding Chair of the Prix de la Danse de Montréal and an Associate Dance Artist of the Canada’s National Arts Centre.
Marie Chouinard is a true cultural ambassador for Quebec. She has won several awards for her contribution to arts, including the Positano
Prize “Choreographer of the year” (Italy, 2016), the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement (Canada, 2016),
the title of Chevalier of the Ordre national du Québec (2015), the Prix Denise-Pelletier (Quebec, 2010), the title of Chevalier of the Ordre
des Arts et des Lettres (France, 2009), the title of Officer of the Order of Canada (2007) and the Bessie Award (New York, 2000). The name
of Marie Chouinard became a dictionary entry in Le Petit Larousse illustré in 2010 and in Le Robert in 2011.
Since its founding in 1990, COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD has met with acclaim on stages all over the world. The dancers brilliantly
perform a repertoire of daring works created by Marie Chouinard. The COMPAGNIE’s opus also includes a multitude of projects and protean
creations in which choreographic art is explored through various media: installation, performance, film, photography, drawing, writing and
application.
Information: Ariane Fontaine
514 843 9036 # 15
[email protected]
www.mariechouinard.com
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Photo: Nicolas Ruel / Dancers: Leon Kupferschmid, Lucy M. May
Montreal, October 17, 2016 – Marie Chouinard’s latest creation, HIERONYMUS
BOSCH: THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, will be presented in Canadian
premiere at the Grand Théâtre de Québec on Tuesday, November 1, 2016
at 8 p.m.