Mélanie Demers

Mélanie Demers is a Canadian dancer and choreographer from Quebec, most noted as founder of the Mayday Danse company.[1]

She was born in Montreal, and raised in Quebec City. Formerly a dancer with the O Vertigo dance company, she launched Mayday Danse in the mid-2000s.[2] Works she has created with Mayday have included Les Angles morts,[3] Junkyard/Paradise,[2] Goodbye,[4] With a Trace,[5] La Goddam Voie Lactée,[6] and Confession pbblique.[7]

In 2024 she was named the recipient of the National Arts Centre Award from the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Mélanie Demers, la danseuse contemporaine hyperactive". Ici Radio-Canada Première, May 10, 2022.
  2. ^ a b Catherine Lalonde, "Danse - Mélanie Demers : bonheur aveugle et beauté Dollarama". Le Devoir, January 22, 2011.
  3. ^ Frédérique Doyon, "Danse - Mélanie Demers traque les troublantes réalités de l'existence". Le Devoir, April 21, 2007.
  4. ^ Victor Swoboda, "Mélanie Demers finds new ways to say goodbye". Montreal Gazette, March 7, 2013.
  5. ^ Kathleen Smith, "Melanie Demers". Now, September 19, 2013.
  6. ^ Janet Smith, "Montreal's Mélanie Demers unleashes the female voice in La Goddam Voie Lactée". Stir, February 1, 2022.
  7. ^ Janet Smith, "MAYDAY's award-winning Confession Publique is an act of radical exposure, May 26 and 27". Stir, May 25, 2023.
  8. ^ "Andrea Martin, Maestro Fresh Wes to receive Canada's top honour in the performing arts". CBC Arts, February 22, 2024.


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