Hélène Simoneau

Hélène Simoneau is a choreographer exploring themes of intimacy, agency, identity, sexuality, and power. She received a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship and was a 2022 Choreography Fellow at New York City Center. Most recently, she was awarded a Pillow Lab residency at Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, MA. 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. 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. Hélène is originally from Luceville, a small village near Rimouski, in Eastern Québec.

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