About —
The same woman appears three times in the video-dance Éléonores: in autumn, we find her in a field of dried corn; in winter, in an outdoor skating rink at night and, in summer, in a lake or on water. Shot outdoors, these unsettling locations, both for the dancer and for the cameraperson, are meant to express the three states represented by the dance.
Presented on the occasion of Les 50 Jours de la Danse.
Biography —
Annie-Claude Coutu Geoffroy is a native of Lanaudière. She studied at the École supérieure de ballet du Québec and is a graduate of Canada’s National Ballet School in Toronto. A versatile performer, she made her debut with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and went on to study contemporary dance collaborating with Isabelle Van Grimde, Emmanuel Jouthe and the Collectif_BBT. Recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts grant for DanceWEBers, she performed at ImPulsTanz – Vienna’s International Dance Festival, and having successfully mastered the art of the musical, she danced on a floating stage at the Bregenzer Festspiele in Austria, and went on to take part in a multidisciplinary project in Bucharest, where she was the Quebec delegate at the 11th Francophonie Summit. Back in Lanaudière, she was awarded the 2007 Ambassadeur Télé-Québec Prize and, in 2013, she obtained a grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for the production of a video-dance. Annie-Claude teaches at the École de Ballet Francyn Coutu in Joliette, and is its artistic director. Occasionally, she choreographs and acts as a dance coach for other companies including the Théâtre Advienne Que Pourra. Since 2008, she has been in charge of developing and programming dance activities at the Theatre Hector-Charland at L’Assomption. Her initiatives in this post yielded several projects, including La Semaine de la Danse à Joliette and the 50 Jours de Danse.