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= Jean-Pierre Perreault = Jean-Pierre Perreault (born February 16 1947 in Montréal (Québec) and died from cancer December 4 2002), is one of the most internationally recognized Canadian choreographers. His contemporary dance works, often composed of movements in large groups, drew inspiration from Sartre, Kafka and the violence imposed on the individual by the collective. His best known work is Joe.

The collection of archives of Jean-Pierre Perreault is held at the archives centre of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec  in Montréal.

Biography
Jean-Pierre Perreault was introduced to dance by Jeanne Renaud, who was in the process of founding the Groupe de la Place Royale. He received his training with the Groupe's school and danced with the company starting in 1967. In 1971, he became the artistic co-director of the company with Peter Boneham where he continued to build his career as a choreographer.

In 1981, Jean-Pierre Perreault began to pursue an independent career. He worked as a resident artist at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and the Laban Centre in London. Trips to Europe, Asia and Africa grew his interest in architecture, religious art, costumes, and social structure and their effect on dance vocabulary and choreography. These observations led to explorations comparing traditional dances and functional movement. While teaching in the dance department of the Université du Québec à Montréal, he created his most renowned work, Joe. In 1984 he founded his own company: Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault.

His education and training broadened with his contact with the artists that gravitated at the time towards the Groupe de la Place Royale including Marcelle Ferron, Fernand Leduc, Françoise Sullivan, Gilles Tremblay and Serge Garant. This circle helped develop his global approach to creation which intrinsically unified choreography, scenography, lighting, music and costumes. Each of these dimensions acted together in the eyes of this choreographer-scenographer. Perreault's contact with other art forms, and observing work by other artists such as Bruce Nauman, Joseph Beuys, Carl André as well as abstract painter Nicolas de Staël, also informed his work.

Perreault's work can today be characterized as one that is anchored in space, is profoundly connected to the place, and which at least in part produces it's own music through orchestrated steps and complex rhythms. Recognized as one of Canada's most important choreographers, Jean-Pierre Perreault created a metaphorical and paradoxical universe in which combined intimacy with the social, the contemporary with the timeless, and force with fragility. His works as us to encounter human nature continually, and evoke "each time the feeling of being a witness but implicated, outside of any intrigue yet reproduced, ignored but significant" (Aline Gélinas, Cahiers de théâtre Jeu, 1988). Jean-Pierre Perreault approached his choreographic process through drawing. Having accumulated a large number of works, he was invited to exhibit his drawings in solo exhibitions in New York, Anvers, Québec, Montréal, Glasgow and Stockholm.

In 1991 the well-respected Ballet Cullberg in Sweden commissioned him to create a work for the inauguration of the Dansens Hus in Stockholm. Flykt was received as a "strong and perilous work" (Dagens Nyheter, 1991).

In February 2001, upon the invitation of James Kudelka, Jean-Pierre Perreault created The Comfort of Solitudes, a work for 36 dancers for the National Ballet of Canada.

En 1990, Jean-Pierre Perreault recevait le prix Jean A. Chalmers de chorégraphie. En 1991, et à nouveau en 1993, la Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault recevait le Prix de reconnaissance, dans la catégorie danse, du Grand Prix du Conseil des arts de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal. En 1996, c’est le Prix Jean A. Chalmers d’excellence en chorégraphie que remportait Jean-Pierre Perreault pour l’ensemble de son travail. Plus récemment, il recevait le Grand Prix d’excellence 1999 du Conseil des arts de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal pour L’EXIL-L’OUBLI. Au répertoire de la compagnie, plusieurs des œuvres chorégraphiques dont Nuit, La Vita, Les Années de pèlerinage et Eironos ont connu des carrières internationales. À l’automne 2002, Jean-Pierre Perreault recevait le Prix du Gouverneur général du Canada.

In March 2001, the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault opened Espace chorégraphique a new creation and production space. This the foundation became the first Quebec dance company to own its own space. To inaugurate the Espace chorégraphique, the foundation presented Jean-Pierre Perreault's work for large groups L’EXIL-L’OUBLI for five weeks consecutively as well as a séries of dance explorations and architecture entitled L'Espace dynamique.


 * "For me choreography is the expression of space, much like dance is the expression of the body. There is the space (landscape), the place (walls), the light (time), and the beings that give them life" (Jean-Pierre Perreault).

The insignia of Officer of the Ordre national du Québec was awarded posthumously on June 23, 2004.

Choreographic works

 * Pentagramme (1980)
 * Dix minutes (1980)
 * Refrains : An Opera (1981)
 * Huit minutes (1982)
 * Official version : Red (1982), commission from the Laban Dance Centre in London
 * Rodolphe (1983)
 * Joe (1984)
 * Stella (avec des femmes, 1985)
 * Nuit (1986)
 * L'événement AUTOROUTE 86 (1986)
 * Eldorado (1987), commission from Montréal Danse
 * Eva Naissance (1987), commission from Fortier-Danse-Création
 * Les Lieux-dits (1988)
 * Piazza (1988), commission from First New York International Festival of the Arts, New York
 * Orénoque (1990)
 * Flykt (1991), commission from Ballet Cullberg in Stockholm
 * îles (1991)
 * La Vita (1993)
 * Adieux (1993)
 * L'instinct (1994)
 * Les années de pèlerinage (1996)
 * Les Ombres dans ta tête (1996)
 * Eironos (1996), co-produced with the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault and the Perth Festival, Australia
 * Les Éphémères (1997)
 * L'EXIL-L'OUBLI (1999)
 * E.M.F. (1999)
 * The Comforts of Solitude (2001), commissioned by the National Ballet of Canada
 * Les ombres (2001), choreographic installation by the  Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault and the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse Montréal
 * Les petites sociétés (2004), posthumous work.

With the Groupe de la Place Royale

 * Calliope (1982)
 * Dernière paille (1980), second version
 * Monumental Woman (1980)
 * Vent d'Est (1979)
 * Les Dames aux vaches (1978)
 * Dernière paille (1977)
 * Nanti Malam (1977)
 * Vue parallèle (1977), in collaboration with Sandra Neels
 * Danse pour sept voix (1976), in collaboration with Peter Boneham
 * Nouveaux espaces (1976), in collaboration with Peter Boneham
 * 100 000 signes (1976)
 * Monuments (1975)
 * Galapagos (1974)
 * Les Bessons II (1973)
 * Continental (1973)
 * Moustières (1973)
 * Trilogie III (1972)
 * Les Bessons (1972), in collaboration with Maria Formolo.