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Anne Thériault, The Art of Collaboration
Anne Thériault has danced for several Quebec choreographers, including Dave St-Pierre, Marie Béland, Nicolas Cantin and Lynda Gaudreau. She was the latter’s assistant for the Out of Grace exhibit. She has been choreographing since 2004 in a style that incorporates performance art, and has danced in most of her pieces. She has also danced in works by the collectives La 2^e Porte à gauche and POP, an ensemble created recently with four colleagues. She did the choreography for a Misteur Valaire videoclip, and called on the services of Martin Messier for the sound ambience of the piece La Physique.

Martin Messier, Looking at Sound
The composer, performer and drummer Martin Messier has long been interested in electro-acoustic music. Fascinated by the division of time and by the correlation of sound and image, he directs his talents in several directions. Apart from his collaborations with the choreographers-dancers Caroline Laurin-Beaucage and Anne Thériault, he creates audio performances (L’horloger, using old alarm clocks, Pencil Project, with lead pencils) and designs sound installations (Sewing Machine Orchestra, with eight sewing machines from the 1930s-40s). His video work includes the diptych Autoportrait. He also composes for theatre and dance, and worked on the soundscape and score for Ginette Laurin’s Onde de choc (FTA 2010).