Catherine Gaudet

Catherine Gaudet began performing with various choreographers before embarking on her own choreographic research in 2004. In the following years, she made a name for herself with Grosse fatigue – which won a prize at the Arhus International Choreography Competition (Denmark) – and L’arnaque. In 2009 she delved into the effects of loss in her first long piece, L’invasion du vide. In Je suis un autre (2012) she scratched beneath the surface of social façade to portray the ambiguity of characters grappling with their contradictions, an approach she pursued again in 2014 with Au sein des plus raides vertus. There she explored the concept of morality. In 2016 she co-created with the director Jérémie Niel La très excellente et lamentable tragédie de Roméo et Juliette, a piece that placed Shakespeare’s classic in an enclosed space rife with sensuality and melancholy. In 2018 she created Tout ce qui va revient, which combined three solos for female dancers from her repertoire, along with L’affadissement du merveilleux, a piece for five dancers that is based on the figure of the circle and the hypnotic insistence of the cycle. In 2021, she created and performed the solo Se dissoudre, which explores the illusory nature of our perception of time, and presented Les jolies choses at the FTA 2022, a creation for five performers. In 2023, she creates Les mondes parallèles, performed by Louise Bédard and Sarah Williams, as well as Mains moites, a solo for Francis Ducharme, which she co-creates with director Brigitte Haentjens. 2024 saw the completion of her first large-scale work, ODE, danced by 11 performers, produced by the CCOV – Centre de création O Vertigo and presented at the FTA. Over the past few years, Catherine Gaudet’s works have enjoyed considerable international success. They have been seen in Lyon (Biennale de la danse), Paris (Chaillot), Barcelona (Mercat de les Flores), Porto (DDD Festival) and Madrid (Festival Otono), among other venues. Catherine received the GRAND PRIX DE LA DANSE de Montréal in 2022 and the Prix de la diffusion internationale in 2023. Catherine is now the general and artistic director of Compagnie Catherine Gaudet and is also a member of the Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique, an associate artist at Daniel Léveillé Danse and an associate artist at Agora de la danse.

Photo: Julie Artacho