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Although Perreault initially intended to pursue the visual arts, he began training in dance with Jeanne Renaud and Peter Boneham at the age of nineteen. When Renaud formed Le Groupe de la Place Royale in 1966, both Boneham and Perreault were founding members.

Perreault studied classical and modern dance, and by 1968 he was teaching at Le Groupe’s school. He and Boneham became co-directors of the company when Renaud left in 1971, and the 1970s became a time of great choreographic development for Perreault. By the time he left Le Groupe in 1981, he had produced over twenty works for the company. After leaving, he worked as an independent choreographer and teacher in Canada and Europe, including Simon Fraser University, the Laban Centre and the Cullberg Ballet. He returned to Montreal in 1984 creating his own company, La Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault, and teaching at the Université du
Québec à Montréal until 1991. It was here that he mounted his signature piece, Joe, a ninety-minute work for twenty-four students that has since been remounted several times and celebrated worldwide. The 1980s
and 1990s saw the creation of many of Perreault’s other renowned works such as Stella (1985), Nuit (1986), Les Lieux dits (1988), Îles (1991) and Les Années de Pèlerinage (1996).

Perreault’s works often began as drawings and paintings and, accordingly, he is also well known for his designs, which have been given solo exhibitions all over the world. In total, Perreault produced over forty-eight choreographic works in his lifetime. In 1990 he won the Jean A. Chalmers Award for Choreography and in 1996 the Jean A. Chalmers Award for Distinction in Choreography, an award that recognizes his entire body of work. Jean-Pierre Perreault died of cancer in 2002.

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Lemieux has choreographed over thirty original works and has danced for some of Canada’s most prominent choreographers, including Margie Gillis, James Kudelka, and Jean-Pierre Perreault. Lemieux is a passionate advocate for the arts and is a member on the board of Daniel Leveillé Danse in Montreal. In 2012, Lemieux created The Citadel Dance Program, bringing high quality, free dance classes to children and youth living in Regent Park.

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For many years she assisted choreographers Jean-Pierre Perreault and Paul-André Fortier, and taught at Concordia University’s Dance Department and in professional training schools across Canada. 

Her sensitive gaze also brought her to collaborate with many other Canadian choreographers in their creative and performance processes. In the ’90s and in collaboration with Agora de la Danse, she created workshops for non-dancers and later proposed new workshops that use contemporary dance repertoire. This proposition became the participative component of the dance exhibit “Corps Rebelle” in 2015. At Circuit-Est/Choreographic center’s invitation, she collaborated in many international platforms of artistic exchanges as a dance dramaturg and facilitator. During the last thirty years she has taken an active interest in documenting dance, the relationship to archive, and the preservation of Quebec’s contemporary dance patrimony. This brought on the virtual exhibit of Jean-Pierre Perreault’s choreographic works in 2010 and the creation of the “choreographic toolbox” for the Foundation of the same name. Always fascinated by the depth of the dance experience, she still accompanies performative projects with dance artists engaged in the same quest and, in parallel, presently works in the archivist milieu. In 2022 she was awarded the Ethel Bruneau prize at the Prix de la danse de Montréal. 

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Upon graduating at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre they travelled to Mexico for a residency with La Escuela Profesional de Danza de Mazatlán. Since then, she has worked with Frog in Hand, Human Body Expression, Kaeja d’Dance, Peggy Baker, the Citadel + Compagnie, the Wind in the Leaves Collective, and Tiger Princess Dance Projects.

She umbrellas much of her work under the name Company Vice Versa and works frequently with Fantastical Realms, Toronto Dance Theatre, Diane Borsato, Bad New Days Theatre and Allison Cummings. Val is designing costumes for Atri Nundy, choreographing a new stage work for Toronto Metropolitan University, and collaborating with filmmakers Franci Duran and Michele Kaye. She is the Membership & Operations Manager for CADA/East and completed a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Choreography in 2014.

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Irvin has had the pleasure of performing in David Earle’s, Miserere, as part of Toronto Heritage Dance, as well as in William Yong’s, vox:lumen. He has worked with Toronto Dance Theatre under the direction of Christopher House, and with Julia Sasso in a remount of her acclaimed work, Sporting Life. Irvin is very much looking forward to dancing with Citadel + Compagnie in this iteration of Jean-Pierre Perreault’s, Nuit.

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He began his career in The Netherlands with Intordans, touring throughout Europe and Asia. Next, he danced with The Göteborg Ballet and Cullberg Ballet in Sweden. He works with Hit & Run Productions, Opera Atelier, The Chimera Project, ProArte Danza, The Dietrich Group, Citadel + Compagnie and Desiraeda Dance Theatre. For his role in DA Hoskins’ PARIS1994\Gallery in 2010, Tyler was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding performance in a dance show.

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Originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Connor has toured with Red Sky performance, ProArteDanza, Citadel + Compangnie, Human body expressions and has performed in James Kudelka’s Fifteen Heterosexual Duets, Elvis and the Man in Black, Romeo and Juiliet before Parting, and Heros. Recognized by Now Magazine as one of 2017’s breakthrough Toronto stage artists, Connor has had the privilege of working with many renowned choreographers and artists including Guillame Cote, Jerra Wolf, Thomas Fonua, William Yong, Hanna Kiel, Kate Hilliard, Heidi Strauss, Robert Glumbek, Roberto Campanella, Release Dance Project, ACE Dance Theatre, Zata Omm Dance Projects, Avinoam Silverman and Allen Kaeja.

Natasha is a frequent performer with Rock Bottom Movement and Côté Danse, and has worked with Conny Janssen Danst, Kevin Wynn Collection, BoucharDanse, The Dietrich Group, Roderick George, Benjamin Landsberg, Ryan Lee, Gadfly, Little Pear Garden, and Hit & Run Dance Productions, among others. She is a Dora Award-winning performer with Rock Bottom for its acclaimed production, hollow mountain.

Natasha has been the Associate Artistic Director of CCDT since 2019 and the company’s Rehearsal Director since 2012. She enjoys rehearsal direction for various independent artists and is a sought-after dance educator specializing in Limón-based modern technique.

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As a choreographer, his interests are centred around the rigorous practices of collaboration and collective decision making. Stevenson has been creating and performing as part of the award-winning trio, Throwdown Collective, since 2008. He is a Dora Award winning performer with The Dietrich Group as well as a recipient for outstanding choreography with Throwdown Collective.

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A KM Hunter and multi-Dora Award winning choreographer, she is the artistic director of Toronto-based adelheid through which she collaborates on performance creation for theatre, non-theatre and digital environments. She is a resident artist at the Citadel, is currently developing a new solo and pursuing an MFA at Transart Institute. https://adelheid.ca

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She has toured throughout Canada, China, Europe, Mexico and the UAE.

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River attended the Centre for Indigenous Theatre for two years, where he gained experience and training in Theatre. River performed as part of Night Shift 2021 alongside Winter Hawk. River has been teaching dance to youth from communities across Canada and more recently in Loon Lake reserve in Saskatchewan.

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