Choreographer
Louise Bédard carries and focuses her gaze on creation, enjoying projecting herself into unique experiences where her imagination unfolds in a singular manner. She creates both solo pieces for artists and group works, often drawing on visual arts as a matrix to build her pieces.
In 2018, Louise won the Interpreter of the Year award presented by the Montreal Dance Awards. She is a co-founder of Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique, dedicated to research and creation in contemporary dance.
The Louise Bédard Danse company has been in existence since 1990. Its choreographic language is often noted for its subtlety, combined with a desire to portray humanity in all its strength and fragility. These diverse worlds open up to the subjectivity of a perspective that gazes upon the world. In 2023, the Quartiers Danses Festival awarded Louise Bédard the Lifetime Achievement Award for the presentation of Morceaux choisis, a solo piece that the choreographer performed herself.