Les Anarchives de la danse ©2016, Fonderie Darling. Photo by Gabrielle Larocque. Featuring: Andrew Turner, Audrée Juteau, Brice Noeser, Catherine Lavoie-Marcus.
Catherine Lavoie-Marcus is an interdisciplinary artist and live art researcher based in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang (Montreal). Since 2009, she has been presenting choreographic works in various contexts: on stage, in situ, in art galleries and museums. She publishes zines, articles and essays to share her theoretical research, and, from 2014 to 2019, she has a free writing column at esse arts + opinions with Michel F Côté. For the 2022 edition of Festival TransAmériques, the pair launches the literary oddity Danses à venir, a collection of 161 dance proposals that speculate on choreographic art and its future. Catherine holds a PhD in Art Practice and Studies from UQAM.
I’m interested in manifestations of collective intelligence in choreography and literature: open scores, collective writing, knowledge sharing, in situ actions, delegated performances. I’m looking to not entirely be the mistress of my own self, but rather to radically improvise new possibilities for myself. What drives each of my creations is finding forces to de-alienate and reconfigure everyday life. My creations take place in theatres, art and community centres, museums or public spaces. — Catherine Lavoie-Marcus
Contributions to collective work
Marché, mécénat, état, qui soutient qui?, co-written with Édith Brunette in the collective work 'Troubler la fête, rallumer notre joie. Journée sans culture 2015.', pub. Pablo Rodriguez, Montreal, 2016.
De la documentation comme partition: le parergon chorégraphique in 'Documenter recréer les œuvres performatives et chorégraphiques contemporaines', Anne Bénichou pub., Paris, Presses du Réel, 2015.
Like Cactuses in the Desert: the Germination of Dance in Montréal Universities in the 1970s. Chapter for a book co-written with Dena Davida, in 'Renegade Bodies: Canadian Dance in the 1970s', Dance Collection Danse Press/es, May 2012.
Articles, reviews
Feminist Perspectives on Choreogaphic Editing as a Means to Reveal Absences/Presences: Creative Research Around the Work “Singeries”, co-written with Priscilla Guy. 'Journal for Screendance Studies', 2016.
Marge, l’expérience du recentrement on the work of Aurélie Pédron, Dare Dare pub., 2015.
Fake it till you make it, 'esse arts + opinions', Numéro 78, printemps-été 2013, p. 32-37. * Winner of the SODEP Review Prize: Critical Opinion on a literary or artistic work.
Sur les traces de la danse montréalaise, 'Revue Jeu', Volume 149 (4), 2013, p. 32-36.
La danse et l’air du temps, 'Revue Spirale', Volume 242, Fall 2012, p. 60-61.
