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Mélanie Demers

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

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. Works she has created with Mayday have included Les Angles morts, Junkyard/Paradise, Goodbye, With a Trace, La Goddam Voie Lactée, and Confession pbblique.

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

References

  1. "Mélanie Demers, la danseuse contemporaine hyperactive". Ici Radio-Canada Première, May 10, 2022.
  2. ^ 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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