NUMUS 2004-2005 SERIES

Marie-Josée Chartier

Marie-Josée Chartier is a choreographer, director, dancer, vocalist and teacher. Her performing career has taken her on international and national stages as a solo artist and with dance companies, most notably with Dancemakers.

Her choreographic work has been presented in prestigious dance series and festivals largely in Canada and Europe as well as being broadcasted through documentaries on CBC, TVO, TfO, Bravo! and ARTV.

Marie-Josée’s work is largely inspired by visual art and contemporary music and she has collaborated with some of Canada’s finest artists. She receives numerous commissions from solo artists and companies, including, fifty-one pieces of silver for Dancemakers, winner of the 2002 Dora Mavor Moore Award for best Choreography, La Lourdeur des Cendres for Four Chambers, Vestige for Toronto Dance Theatre, and étude pour deux mammifères for Kaeja d’Dance. She has won several grants and awards most notably the 2001 K.M. Hunter Award for Dance.

Recently she has performed her solo Sous nos Yeux at the Side by Side Festival in Wuppertal, Germany, directed Constantinople, a 90 minute music/multi-media work and premiered her latest full evening choreographic work Screaming Popes in Potsdam, Germany. The Popes will be in Toronto at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in December.

www.chartierdanse.com

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $41.7 million in the arts in Ontario. Nous remercions de son soutien le Conseil des Arts du Canada, qui a investi 41,7 millions de dollars l'an dernier dans les arts en Ontario.