DIRECTORS

 
Martine Époque
Artistic director - dance
Choreographer, digital choreographer
 
Denis Poulin
Artistic director - production
Producer, digital choreographer

Emblematic dance figure in Quebec, Martin Époque (choreographer, eurythmics specialist and professor) was the founder and artistic director of the famous contemporary dance company of Montreal “Nouvelle Aire”. She was the principal actor in the creation of the dance department at UQAM (1989) and of “L’Agora de la danse” (1991). She has earned international recognition for her stage work, conferences and publications. She is the recipient of the Clifford E. Lee prize for choreography in 1983 and the Denise Pelletier “Prix du Québec” in 1994. She has devoted her life to technochoreography since 1989. A number of articles and television reports have focused on her career.

  

Denis Poulin (MA cinema and television, 1976, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor) is associate professor of the dance department at UQAM (2006). He is also a dance professor at Collège Montmorency in Laval where he founded the dance department and its programs (1985) as well as the 3D Human Movement Animation program (2007). Fascinated by on screen dance, he has directed many movies and videos for his choreographic creations and those of Martine Époque. In 1983, his movie “Beyound curtains ⁄ Ni scène, ni coulisses” produced by The National Film Board of Canada (1978), won the Enta Maratone dei Templi cup at the International Film Festival of Salerno.

MEMBERS

The LARTech team is mainly formed by :

1. students and graduates of the Dance program at UQAM (B.A., M.A., Graduate diploma) and of the “doctorat en Études et pratiques des Arts”.

2. professional dance and digital technology research assistants

3. professional artistes, engineers and other collaborators. 

The LARTech also hosts interns. Mainly, these interns come from Collège Montmorency’s dance department or its 3D Human Movement Animation program, or they are post-doctorate students in technochoreography.

Technical director

Production supervisor

Tarik Boukhalfi

Assistant choreographer and dance supervisor

Philippe Vita

 

Assistant choreographers, dancers

Frédérick Gravel ( M.A. dance) http://www.la2eporteagauche.ca

Normand Marcy (doctorat en Études et pratiques des arts) http://web.mac.com/bangdebrut

 

Digital choreographers, 3D animation

Cédric Dubois, Tarik Boukhalfi, Denis Poulin

MoCap operators

Frédérick Gravel, Normand Marcy

 

Modeling collaborator

Franck Lechenet

 

MoCap costume designer

Denis Lavoie, pour Carré Vert

 

Dancers

Manon Levac, Charles St-Onge, Philippe Vita (professionals)

Karine Cloutier, Sophie Goulet-Delisle, Caroline Gravel, Séverine Lombardo (recent graduates B.A. dance UQAM)

Sophie Des Gagné, Caroline Dussault, Catherine Lafleur (graduates B.A. dance UQAM)