Body of Work: Dialogues on Dance with Hélène Simoneau
FREE Public Event and Masterclass
These events are on Saturday, March 9, 2024 at the Cuyahoga Falls Natatorium located at: 2345 4th St, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221
Masterclass: 10 am - 11:30 am
Body of Work: Dialogues on Dance Event: 3 pm - 4 pm
Hélène Simoneau is a French-Canadian choreographer exploring themes of intimacy, agency, identity, sexuality, and power. Rooted in form, her movement is created in reverence to its lineage yet subverts tradition by proposing new ways ways of being within dance.
About
Hélène Simoneau is a French-Canadian choreographer exploring themes of intimacy, agency, identity, sexuality, and power. Her choreography has been commissioned by Oregon Ballet Theatre, The Juilliard School, Charlotte Ballet, PARA.MAR Dance Theatre, Vitacca Ballet, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, BalletX, the Ailey School, Dimensions Dance Theatre, and the American Dance Festival. She was recently a Choreography Fellow at New York City Center and received a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. She has also been a resident artist at Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYU/Tisch, NCCAkron, and a fellow of The NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts, Ailey’s New Directions Choreography Lab, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Swiss International Coaching Project for Choreographers (SiWiC) in Zurich. Simoneau was awarded first place for Choreography at the 13th Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, for her solo “the gentleness was in her hands.” Originally from Luceville, a small village near Rimouski, in Eastern Québec, Simoneau now divides her time between Montréal and NYC.
Thank you to The City of Cuyahoga Falls and Collide: Cuyahoga Falls for partnering on this presentation.
