Mélanie Demers is a Canadian dancer and choreographer from Quebec, most noted as founder of the Mayday Danse company. [1]
She was born in Montreal, and raised in Quebec City. Formerly a dancer with the O Vertigo dance company, she launched Mayday Danse in the mid-2000s. [2] Works she has created with Mayday have included Les Angles morts, [3] Junkyard/Paradise, [2] Goodbye, [4] With a Trace, [5] La Goddam Voie Lactée, [6] and Confession pbblique. [7]
In 2024 she was named the recipient of the National Arts Centre Award from the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards. [8]
Mélanie Demers is a Canadian dancer and choreographer from Quebec, most noted as founder of the Mayday Danse company. [1]
She was born in Montreal, and raised in Quebec City. Formerly a dancer with the O Vertigo dance company, she launched Mayday Danse in the mid-2000s. [2] Works she has created with Mayday have included Les Angles morts, [3] Junkyard/Paradise, [2] Goodbye, [4] With a Trace, [5] La Goddam Voie Lactée, [6] and Confession pbblique. [7]
In 2024 she was named the recipient of the National Arts Centre Award from the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards. [8]