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Marie Claire Forté

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Marie Claire Forté is a dancer, choreographer, translator and writer. Former member of Le Groupe Dance Lab, she currently dances for choreographers in Montréal and Toronto. She has presented her own work in Ottawa, Montréal, Toronto and Saint-John’s.

Marie Claire Forté's Work

Short Waves

By Amy Bowring, Marie Claire Forté Volume 12, Issue 1

Lola MacLaughlin 1952-2009; CDA reports to Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage; Second season of So You Think You Can Dance Canada; Canadian Artists win at the Bruhn Competition; Recent dance on screen; Anniversaries

Mixed-Ability Performance in Canada

By Marie Claire Forté Volume 11, Issue 7

When it comes to mixed-ability dance, audience access and ability are a key part of the equation. How do we engage with and talk about unfamiliar performance experiences?

Ottawa’s Propeller Dance

By Marie Claire Forté Volume 11, Issue 7

This month, Ottawa’s Propeller Dance tours to the International Disability Arts Symposium Momentum ‘09 in Auckland, New Zealand.

Remix, Mash-Up, Smash-Up, etc.

By Philip Szporer, Marie Claire Forté Festival TransAmériques 2008 Festival TransAmériques

Philip Szporer and Marie Claire Forté in conversation throughout the Festival TransAmériques 2008.

Posted June 19, 2008

Spinning around art and outreach

By Marie Claire Forté HIP HOP 360 at the Canada Dance Festival Canada Dance Festival

There is something particular about this Canada Dance Festival (CDF) intermediate year programming, also the festival’s first thematic five-day event. Is it the YouTube trailer, the graffiti artists spraying large wood panels outside the National Arts Centre (NAC) box office, the abundance of youth sporting hoodies and baseball caps, the men outnumbering the women by a proportion of ten to one?

Posted July 2, 2007

A Certain Selection of Dance

By Philip Szporer, Marie Claire Forté Festival TransAmériques Festival TransAmériques

This May marked the inaugural program of the Montréal-based dance and theatre event, Festival TransAmériques. To cover the dance programming at this year’s premiere event, The Dance Current invited writers Marie Claire Forté (Ottawa) and Philip Szporer (Montréal) to exchange their views in an e-mail conversation. Here are their evocative and emphatic impressions.

Posted June 21, 2007

Circuit-Est Centre Choregaphique

a small centre grown big By Marie Claire Forté Volume 9, Issue 7

In 1987, ten choreographers and dancers (Francine Gagné; Louise Bédard; Sylvain Émard; Lucie Grégoire; Carole Ip; Rodrigue Jean; Jocelyne Sarasin; Richard Simas; Leanne Smith; Tedi Tafel) were working together in Montréal. They wanted a permanent home and joined to create Circuit-Est. The choreographic centre celebrates twenty years this month.