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Marie-Josée Chartier
Artistic Director

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A multi-faceted artist, Chartier Danse’s artistic director Marie-Josée Chartier moves easily between the worlds of dance, music, opera and multi-media in the roles of choreographer, performer, director, vocalist or teacher. Her choreographic repertoire of thirty-five works is greatly influenced by contemporary visual art, music and literature in terms of concept, composition and dynamic structure. From there, personal themes weave themselves to create works that try to decipher, expose or deconstruct the vulnerability of human beings... more

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Mandate and artistic activities

In 2003, Marie-Josée Chartier founded Chartier Danse in order to support her creative activities. She believes in bringing contemporary artists of diverse disciplines from the beginning of the creation to allow the development of layered, meticulous and integrated work and foster a level of communication that is central in accomplishing a strong artistic vision.

Acclaimed large scale productions with extraordinary artists came to life such as Red Brick celebrating the work of composer Michael J. Baker in collaboration with Arraymusic, Contes pour enfants pas sages with PPS Danse, Screaming Popes inspired from the work of painter Francis Bacon co-produced with fabrik Potsdam, Germany and Bas-Reliefs inspired from the paintings of Betty Goodwin in collaboration with Danse-Cité and uniting choreographers, designers and filmmakers from Montreal and Toronto.