Upcoming Events & Workshops
COMMUNITY MOVEMENT CLASS
with Kristina Lemieux
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
PAY WHAT YOU WISH
Suggested price : $15.00
First City School of Dance
400 Main St., Saint John, NB - Enter from the parking lot through the Main doors, go to the second floor, turn left. OR enter from Main street onto the second floor, walk down the hall until you see the FCSD banner.
Parking: go through the LBR parking lot to get to the parking lot at the back of Place 400.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Ensemble Improvisation is a group movement practice where you build spontaneous, shared choreography with other movers in real time. Working with scores, theme and variation, we'll generate movement together, discovering what emerges when a group of creative movers responds to each other in the moment. Expect to leave with a deeper sense of how to listen, offer, and shape movement collectively.
Kristina Lemieux is a contemporary dance artist, arts manager, and likes to make things happen. A relative newbie to Saint John, Kristina has danced and lived in Edmonton, Vancouver, and Toronto before settling near to the Kennebecasis River. Her dance practice is rooted in improvisation and the democratization of dance. One of the things she is most proud of in her dance career is Polymer Dance. She started Polymer Dance in 2012 with Miriam Esquitín in Vancouver. Polymer Dance is a contemporary dance performing group and class for non-professional adult dancers with the goal to provide a space for continuous training and to cultivate an improvisation collective. Often making use of natural space and performing in public venues, this work allowed artists and audiences to meet in unexpected places. She also works for arts organizations and performing artists coast to coast making ideas happen.
PERSPECTIVE:
An Evening of Dance and Discussion
NOVEMBER 14, 2026
Info coming soon!
COMMUNITY MOVEMENT CLASS
with Sarah Power
SUNDAY, September 27
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
PAY WHAT YOU WISH
Suggested price : $15.00
First City School of Dance
400 Main St., Saint John, NB
Join Sarah Power for a workshop exploring innate creativity through Authentic Movement (AM): the physical practice of listening for and to inner impulses which are then embodied through movement. We will each act as mover and witness exploring movements that are attuned to the moment through AM and then re-embodying impulses with voice and/or body and writing/drawing from each experience. Wear comfortable clothing you can move in and bring a book or paper to write/draw with.
IN MUSEUM
COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD
Originally performed by Marie Chouinard in a 3-hour solo, always in a public place, IN MUSEUM is now also being presented by the dancers of COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD, who replace each other in turn throughout the performance.
A visitor is invited to share discreetly a hope or a wish with the dancer. From each exchange a personalized reply will result, a free dance of dazzling spontaneity that conjures powers to make the wish come true. IN MUSEUM evolves over each progressive exchange between performer and visitor. Between each encounter, the dancer takes a moment to refocus before again giving form and shape to the invisible.
The performance brings to mind the white-clad Pythia, the prophetess of Delphi. This ancient Greek figure delivered her prophecies in a trance like state and in a language that only priests of the temple knew how to interpret. The history of Pythia and the act of divination may remain a mystery, but the inscription at the entrance to Apollo’s temple at Delphi has lost none of its truth: “Know thyself and thou will know the universe and the gods.”
CRÉDITS
Creation: Marie Chouinard
Performers: Michael Baboolal, Adrian W.S. Batt, Justin Calvadores, Rose Gagnol, Valeria Galluccio, Luigi Luna, Carol Prieur, Sophie Qin, Celeste Robbins, Clémentine Schindler, Ana Van Tendeloo and Jérôme Zerges
Costumes and props: Marie Chouinard
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Touring Team:
Rehearsal Director: Paige Culley
Tour Manager: Martin Coutu
Technical Director and Stage Manager: Félix Lefebvre
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Download CANTIQUE for free on the App Store — conceived by Marie Chouinard, music by Louis Dufort, featuring Benoît Lachambre and Carol Prieur.
The COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD wishes to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts de Montréal.
The COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD is proud to be carbon neutral. Since 2020, the company has analyzed and offset the carbon footprint of its tours, its productions and its studios. The company supports the Quebec initiative, Carbone boréal, which reforests naturally deserted terrain in the boreal forests north of Lake Saint Jean. These are public lands which are protected by their designation as experimental forests in conjunction with the Quebec Ministry of Forests, Wildlife and Parks. This project is also used for scientific research.
The use of cameras, camcorders, tape recorders and cell phones are strictly forbidden during the performance."
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3
FREE EVENT
Market Square
1 Market Square, Saint John, NB E2L 4Z6
A PUBLIC PERFORMANCE / NOT A TICKETED EVENT / IN MUSEUM
Duration : 3 hours
World premiere : Created at Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul as part of the 30th International Symposium of Contemporary art of Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada, August 31, 2012. Reviewed in 2016.
“The present is our only eternity.”
- Marie Chouinard
