Mélanie Demers
ChoreographerA multidisciplinary artist, Mélanie Demers founded her dance company, MAYDAY, in 2007 in Montreal, exploring the powerful link between the poetic and the political. Her body of work has all been created from this perspective. With each new creation, she deepened her engagement with cross-genre works and hybrid forms. Her fascination with the interplay between word and gesture crystallized with WOULD (2015), which won the CALQ Award for best choreography. In 2016, Mélanie Demers began a new creation cycle with Animal Triste and Icône Pop; both works toured internationally. In 2017, Mélanie Demers was invited alongside Laïla Diallo to work as a guest choreographer at the Skånes Dansteater in Malmö (Sweden) for the creation of Something About Wilderness. She regularly teaches in the greatest theatre schools in Canada and is a regular contributor on radio and television shows. She won the 2024 NAC Award as part of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards and, more recently, the 2025 Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize. Her recent play l’amour ou rien premiered in May 2025 at Théâtre ESPACE GO. To this day, she choreographed thirty works and was presented in some forty cities across Europe, America, Africa and Asia. |

