Benoît Lachambre & Robin Poitras
Shedding Into The Making Of A Solo

Shedding into the making of a solo This Coaching Project is booked! Applications are no more accepted! Benoît Lachambre uses this opportunity to share the development of kinetic ideas, images and physical states for the making of his new solo. In the making, multiple processes and ideas will take place, all of them, in accordance with and accompanied by his pedagogic approaches. We will be releasing into the becoming while playing in and out of the layers of the experiences. This process will create material to be shown, discussed and performed at the end of the process. A daring and innovative artist, Benoît Lachambre has been evolving in the international dance community for more than twenty-nine years, as choreographer, dancer, improviser and teacher. After beginning his career in Jazz and Modern dance, he devoted himself to an exploratory approach of movement and its sources, and to seeking authenticity of motion. Since then, he has accumulated diverse experiences with releasing, with his own choreographic composition and improvisation projects, and finally with his workshops on research, improvisation and body consciousness. In 1996, Benoît Lachambre created his company Par B.L.eux : "B.L." for Benoît Lachambre, and "eux" for “them,” the creative artists with whom he collaborates. The company is devoted to contemporary and interdisciplinary choreographic creation, and the close connection to an international network of artists. Benoît Lachambre continues to multiply his artistic encounters through his experiences as choreographer, improviser and teacher. His dance is based on the evolution of a proliferation of ideas, of dynamic exchanges aroused by the coming together of various artistic processes and concepts. Benoît is comfortable with passing from metaphor to theory to diverse practices. He transforms eclecticism into a multiplication of complementary activities. He seeks to incorporate the dynamics of communication and perception in his process. Benoît Lachambre has received the Jacqueline Lemieux award from the Canada Council (1999), two Dora Mavor Moores for best performance and best choreography for "Délire Défait" (2001), the Moving Pictures award in Toronto for the best performance in "Cantique no 1 et no 2" directed by Marie Chouinard (2003) and the Bessie Award for his performance in "Forgeries, Love and other matters" (2006). Robin Poitras Robin embarked on a life in dance in 1984, after completing a B.F.A. special honors degree in dance from York University, and several dance technique, creation and performance studies in Canada and abroad. In 1986 she co-founded New Dance Horizons, Saskatchewan’s longest running dance presenter. And in 2008 Robin launched Rouge-gorge, a project-based creation company that is presently company in residence at New Dance Horizons. Her preoccupation with the body, psyche, action and exploration of physical and archetypal worlds has resulted in an embodied multi disciplinary approach. Robin’s works, incorporating found and formed objects, texts, images and other media are performed in theatres, art galleries, parks and city streets. Her large-scale community projects ensure all are able to participate in dance/art events. Robin has received many grants and awards, including the 2004 Women of Distinction Award for the Arts and the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Mayor's Awards for Business & The Arts in Regina. Her works have been presented across Canada, in Spain, France, Germany and Mexico.