Carol Prieur joined COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD in 1995. Since then, she has been part of every works. In 2010, Carol is named "Dancer of the Year" by the prestigious German magazine TANZ and in 2014, she is awarded at LES PRIX DE LA DANSE DE MONTRÉAL the PRIX RQD - INTERPRÈTE. T

This documentary is a tribute to her and highlights her 20 years with the COMPAGNIE.

Length | 16 minutes

Original idea | Marie Chouinard

Filmaker | Isabelle Hébert

Camera | Pier-Louis Dagenais

Soundman and film editor | Pier-Philippe Chevigny

Sound editor | Louis Dupire

Mixing | Dino Castrilli

Production | COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD, 2015

Shot by seven cameras at a January 2013 performance at Ottawa's NAC, the film offers the viewer a unique perspective on the work. The result is stunning and compelling. Created in 1993, Marie Chouinard's Rite of Spring was acclaimed by Le Devoir as "one of the finest-ever Stravinskys to be choreographed", and over more than 250 performances has continued to dazzle audiences, critics and the dance world alike.

Recorded on January 4 2013 at National Arts Centre (Ottawa)

Length | 50 minutes 

Choreographer, screenwriter, stage director | Marie Chouinard

Director | Mario Rouleau

Music | Signatures sonores, Rober Racine, 1992 | The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky, 1913

Dancers | Paige Culley, Valeria Galluccio, Leon Kupferschmid, Lucy M. May, Mariusz Ostrowski, Sacha Ouellette-Deguire, Carol Prieur, David Rancourt, Gerard Reyes, Manuel Roque, Dorotea Saykaly, Lucie Vigneault, James Viveiros, Megan Walbaum

Production |  Espace Franco, Producers Jean Côté, Pierre L. Touchette

Cognoscente of the extraordinary, Marie Chouinard shares her reflections on the contact between the elusive Other and the flagrance of Beauty in the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach. Subtle and extravagant, sumptuous and wild, the movements plumb the insoluble mystery of the body, of living.

Filmed in high definition, this film showcases the exceptional dancers of the COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD.

Recorded on October 6, 2007 at Théâtre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts, Montréal

Length | 48 minutes

Director | Marie Chouinard

Broadcasting Director | Jocelyn Barnabé

Music | Louis Dufort

Producers | Amérimage Specta and Écho Média

Executive Producer | Luc Châtelain

Dancers | Kimberley De Jong, Chi Long, Carla Maruca, Lucie Mongrain, Carol Prieur, Manuel Roque, Dorotea Saykaly, Mark Eden-Towle, James Viveiros, Won Myeong, Dany Desjardins, Gerard Reyes

Emerging from the depths of a black space, a man and a woman choose to meet. A dialogue of their breath and tongues, like strange, independent entities exiting from their mouths to engage in a dance of copulation. The faces of the man and woman, in profile, fill the entire screen, face to face in intense intimacy, without ever touching.

A Compagnie Marie Chouinard and Marie Chouinard production with the financial support of La Fondation Daniel Langlois pour les arts, les sciences et la technologie, Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts de Montréal and ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival

Created at Festival international de nouvelle danse, Montréal, Canada, October 8, 2003

Length | 15 minutes

Screenplay and Direction | Marie Chouinard

Performers | Benoît Lachambre and Carol Prieur

Music | Louis Dufort

Editing | Mathieu Bouchard-Malo

Multiscreen film

A multi-screen film, a cantata for a multiplied man and woman. The heads of a man and woman in profile were filmed individually. Using sounds issuing from their mouths and tongues, a cantata is born in which they respond to each other in a primary dialogue. The sound and the image are intimately related. The work is constructed around micro-movements of their faces, which are treated like rhythmic elements. Behind the profile of the man and woman their own image appears, multiplied like so many levels of accumulated and simultaneous consciousness. In this way, the cantata fluctuates between two and eight voices.

A Compagnie Marie Chouinard and Marie Chouinard production with the financial support of La Fondation Daniel Langlois pour les arts, les sciences et la technologie, Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts de Montréal and ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival

Created at Festival Elektra, Montréal, Canada, November 15, 2003

Length | 20 minutes

Screenplay and Direction | Marie Chouinard

Performers | Carol Prieur and Benoit Lachambre

Music and Editing | Louis Dufort

“…we are in the presence of a completely accomplished work… Here the eight-voice fugue is reinvented in a manner so perfect it would make Johann Sebastian Bach jealous”

François Tousignant, Le Devoir, Montreal, 2003

Photo : Marie Chouinard - Performers : Benoît Lachambre and Carol Prieur