Isabelle Poirier, BAC

Biography

Isabelle Poirier danced for the Compagnie Marie Chouinard for eight years before becoming a rehearsal director and assistant artistic director in 2006. She has participated in several shows on international tours, including L'Après-midi d'un faune, Le Sacre du printemps, L'Amande et le diamant, Les 24 Préludes de Chopin, Le Cri du monde, Chorale as well as the retrospective Les Solos 1978-1998. She currently works as a freelancer as a rehearsal director and performer and re-enacts works for the company for various companies and schools. Since the beginning of her career, Isabelle has danced for several independent choreographers. She was awarded the Linda Rabin Award in 2003 for her exemplary career. In 2015, she performed the solo Cartes postales de Chimère by choreographer Louise Bédard and, in 2016, Les choses dernières by Lucie Grégoire. Two works that were created more than 20 years ago and which are transmitted to her. She then participated in the writing of the choreographic boxes of her same works for the Jean-Pierre Perreault Foundation. She graduates of the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal with a major in art history from the Université de Montréal, she now teaches dance at Concordia University and is an artistic advisor for the graduates of the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal,  Danièle Desnoyers and Rhodnie Désir. She has been the artistic and training director since 2025 of Mouvement de passage and a dance artist for Mouvement de passage since 2027. She makes dance and musical visits to CHSLD to meet people with a loss of autonomy and/or living with a neurocognitive disorder and teaches workshops for caregivers and orderlies on non-verbal communication: "Being close above all".

Work with Mouvement de passage ( visites dansées et musicales)