Collaborators

REHEARSAL MASTER

After studying a variety of techniques (Cecchetti, Limon, Release), primarily in Quebec and New York, Emmanuelle performed for several choreographers, including Alan Good, Massimo Agostinelli, Sonia Delwaide, Jadson Caldeira, Marjon VanGrunsven, Roberto Campanella, Edgar Zendejas, Harold Réhaume, Dave St-Pierre, Danièle Desnoyers and Hinda Es-Sadiqi. She then collaborated on the creation of Les Angèles, ces derniers bleus, a project of C’est juste lundi ! She has worked as a rehearsal director on numerous projects, including those of Audrey Bergeron, Jessica Serli, Anne Thériault, Pierre-Marc Ouellette, Danièle Desnoyers and Marie Chouinard. She currently teaches classes related to movement at the Université du Québec à Montréal, the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, the National Theatre School, as well as for the recreational program of the École de ballet supérieur du Québec.

Costume, Makeup and Hairstyle Designer and photographer

Originally trained as a visual artist, Angelo Barsetti quickly became a well-known makeup artist in the dance and theatre worlds, initially with André Brassard for Michel Marc Bouchard’s Les Feluettes. His talent and creativity have allowed him to forge strong links with a variety of directors and choreographers, including Danièle Desnoyers (Le Carré des Lombes), Catherine Tardif (Et Marianne et Simon), Sylvain Émard (Danse), Louise Bédard (Danse), René Richard Cyr, Wajdi Mouawad, Stéphanie Jasmin and Denis Marleau (UBU Compagnie de création). Since collaborating on Jean Marc Dalpé’s Le Chien, he has developed a special relationship with Brigitte Haentjens (Sibyllines), for whom he has also created promotional images. In addition, Barsetti has taught the art of stage makeup to acting students at the National Theatre School of Canada. He is currently devoting more and more of his energy to photography.

DRAMATURGE

Guy Cools is a dramaturge for dance. He has worked with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (BE), Danièle Desnoyers (CA), Akram Khan (UK) and Arno Schuitemaker (NL), among others. Since December 1, 2022, he has been a regular professor in the dance department at UQAM. His most recent publications include “In-between Dance Cultures: on the migratory artistic identity of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan” (2015), “Imaginative Bodies, dialogues in performance practices” (2016) and “Performing Mourning. Laments in Contemporary Art” (2021).

SET AND LIGHTING DESIGNER

Cédric Delorme-Bouchard is a director, set and lighting designer based in Montreal, with a B.A. in Set Design and an M.A. in Theatre from UQAM. As a scenographer and lighting artist, he has signed over three hundred designs for theater, dance and opera in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. His set and lighting designs have been recognized with numerous national and international nominations and awards. Among others, he has been selected to represent Quebec at the 14th edition of the Quadriennale de scénographie in Prague (2019). On the Montreal scene, his recurring collaboration as a designer with renowned directors includes Philippe Cyr, Angela Konrad, Éric Jean, Sylvain Bélanger, Jérémie Niel, Florent Siaud and Geoffrey Gaquère.

In 2018, he founded the creative company CHAMBRE NOIRE, dedicated to staging theatrical works in which the scenic languages of space and light are central to the creative process. Since 2018, he has staged seven projects with his company between Montreal and Ottawa (Lamelles, Le vaisseau-cœur, Dispositif, Intérieur, Les employés, La nef, Membrane).

In addition to his practice as a director and designer, Delorme-Bouchard has taught as a guest professor, coach, workshop leader, jury member and lecturer at various institutions, including the English-language directing program at the National Theatre School of Canada, UQAM’s School of Visual and Media Arts, UQAM’s École supérieure de théâtre, Concordia University’s theater department, Université de Montréal’s faculty of architecture and the faculty of architecture at the University of Brussels. Since 2022, he has been a professor in the theater department of Cégep Lionel-Groulx, where he teaches set design courses. Photo | © Angelo Barsetti

Co-choreographer

Born in Morocco, Taoufiq Izeddiou is a choreographer, teacher and artistic director of the Anania company and the “On Marche” festival in Marrakech. He created the first school of choreographic arts in Morocco. Between Africa and Europe, he creates works that explore the tensions between tradition and modernity, the individual and the community, and a search for a new interpretation of dance. Recently, he was awarded the Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et Lettres de la France.

Set Designer

Geneviève Lizotte has worked as a set designer, costume designer, artistic director and stylist for over fifteen years. In the realm of theatre, she has collaborated on over 100 productions, working with such prominent directors as André Brassard, Claude Poissant, Christian Lapointe, Catherine Vidal and René-Richard Cyr. Recently, Geneviève designed the sets for Cirque du Soleil’s Le Monde est fou, Tout écartillé (dir. Jean-Guy Legeault) and Reflekt (dir. Fernand Rainville). She also designed a luminous forest for Moment Factory in Osaka, Japan. Her theatre credits include the stage designs for Peter et Alice and Harold et Maude (dir. Hugo Bélanger, Théâtre Jean-Duceppe), Oxygène and Pélléas et Mélisandre (dir. Christian Lapointe, Théâtre Prospéro and TNM), Les fourberies de Scapin, Et Vian! Dans la gueule, L’imprésario de Smyrne* and Le Malade imaginaire (dir. Carl Béchard, TNM), L’Idiot, Robin et Marion (dir. Catherine Vidal, TNM and Theatre d’aujourd’hui), Les intouchables (dir. René Richard Cyr, Rideau Vert and on tour in Quebec). She was also the visual designer for several productions by Pierre Lapointe, including La forêt des mal-aimés, Mutantes and Punkt. In film, Geneviève was the artistic director on Cash Nexus, Le Météore and Chorus (dir. François Delisle ), and Bà Noï (dir. Khoa Lê). In 2015, Geneviève was awarded the CALQ Studio Residency in New York City.

Lighting Designer

Marc Parent has been a lighting designer for over twenty-five years. Initially specialized in contemporary dance, he has collaborated with dozens of choreographers on both the Quebec and international scenes (Danièle Desnoyers, Jocelyne Montpetit, José Navas, Daniel Léveillé, Lucie Grégoire, etc.). He has also worked frequently for the theatre with various directors including Denis Marleau, Martin Faucher and François Girard. In the sphere of contemporary ballet he has created the lights for several choreographers on the international scene, including Kader Belarbi (The Beast and the Beautiful), Mauro Bigonzetti (The Four Seasons) Didy Veldman (TooT / The Little Prince) and Stijn Cellis (Noces / Cinderella / The Sacredness of Spring). Marc Parent has been nominated twice for a Lighting Design Mask by the Académie québécoise du théâtre, and received the 2013 Dora Mavor Moore Award for “Oustanding ligthing design in dance” from the Toronto Alliance for Performing Arts. He is currently a resident designer for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal.