Program Notes - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

homage to Guy Laliberté, as part of their twenty-
fifth anniversary. She has collaborated with the
Compagnie Marie Chouinard as stage manager
and costume designer since 2006.
Dancers
Paige Culley
was born in Rossland, British Columbia. In
2010 she graduated from The School of Toronto
Dance Theatre, where she was awarded the
Hnatyshyn Foundation Developing Artist Grant
for Contemporary Dance. She has worked with
Antonija Livingstone, Martin Bélanger, Ame
Henderson, and Michael Trent as part of Dancemakers,
and with Shannon Gillen and Danièle
Desnoyers. Additionally, she works as dancer,
actor, and vocalist for film and musical theater,
and as choreographer and teacher throughout
British Columbia and Ontario. She joined the
Compagnie Marie Chouinard in 2011.
Valeria Galluccio
was born in Napoli (Italy). She studied ballet
with Annalisa Cernese and she worked as
principal dancer in Biennale of Venice for three
years in Glass Room, The Waste Land, and
Oxygen, directed and choreographed by Ismael
Ivo. She worked again with Ismael Ivo for a
project in Napoli Teatro Festival, Stravinsky’s Le
Sacre du printemps. She joined the Compagnie
Marie Chouinard in 2011.
Leon Kupferschmid
was born in Israël. He studied at the Jerusalem
Music and Dance Academy. From 2004 to 2005,
he danced for the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam
in the Netherland. He continued his training at
the Juilliard School in New York. He joined the
Compagnie Marie Chouinard in 2009.
Lucy M. May
began her dance training at Dance Fredericton
in New Brunswick. Her professional studies
were completed at L’ École de Danse
Contemporaine in Montreal (LADMMI) and the
Rotterdam Dance Academy in the Netherlands.
She has danced for DanseKparK, la
Compagnie Capriole, Meyer-Chaffaud Dance
Company, Lucie Grégoire Danse, and Mélissa
Raymond, among others. She taught at
LADMMI from 2008 to 2009. She joined the
Compagnie Marie Chouinard in 2009.
Mariusz Ostrowski
started his dance training at the Warsaw National
Ballet School in Poland. He worked with
the National Ballet of Poland, the Ballet Arizona,
the Atlanta Ballet, Rubberbandance, and Les
Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, where
he was first soloist. He joined the Compagnie
Marie Chouinard in 2009.
Sacha Ouellette-Deguire
originally trained as a mime artist. Her stage
work includes L’Equipe des Oranges, Compagnie
Omnibu, and Compagnie Korimage. He
continues to develop his work as a multifaceted
artist at the Académie du Ballet Métropolitain
with the dancer Alexis Simonot. He joined the
Compagnie Marie Chouinard in 2012.
Carol Prieur
started her career with Winnipeg Contemporary
Dancers. She has worked with the Fondation
Jean-Pierre Perreault. Grants permitted her to
pursue her studies in New York, Europe, and
India where she was initiated into Kalarypayattu,
an Indian martial art form. Since she became
a member of Compagnie Marie Chouinard in
1995, three solos have been created for her: