Anne Thériault

Biography

Anne Thériault is a singular creator and performer, aged 45, who has been enriching local and international stages since 2005. She has developed numerous collaborations with artists from diverse backgrounds, including Louis Bouvier, Virginie Reid, Marie Brassard, Martin Messier, Danièle Desnoyers, Alexia Bürger, and Dave St-Pierre. She is a founding member of Lorganisme, a structure for choreographers that emphasizes the strength of collective practice within artistic creation.

Since 2021, she has been an invited researcher at L’L, an experimental performing arts research structure based in Brussels, where she is expanding a field of inquiry focused on aging and contemporary artistic writing. In parallel, she is involved in multiple research projects, collaborates with various artists as a dramaturgical advisor, and serves as a guest curator for several events on the Montreal performing arts scene. She also teaches occasionally in the Department of Dance at the Université du Québec à Montréal, as well as in Quebec’s college-level institutions.

Approach

Anne Thériault has spent a decade developing choreographic material based on the cinematography of bodies and minimalist gesture. At the crossroads between dance and performance, the choreographer-performer seeks to transpose onto stage the magic of the cinema and its capacity to capture the imagination. Most of her works are inhabited by an aura of mystery, strangeness and suspense. Anne Thériault plays with the audience’s senses and perceptions through precise work on atmospheres in the form of light and sound, sometimes going as far as to stimulate the sense of smell by introducing food on stage. As well, she builds a strong relationship between sound and movement so that the soundtrack – as it does for the big screen – creates atmosphere and lends colour or a specific intention to the artists’ actions on stage. The most minimal, seemingly everyday movements are invested in order to promote a sensory experience that lets the spectator give free rein to his or her imagination. The audience’s perceptions and sensations thus lend meaning to movement.

Recent work : Repos

From a cycle of creation exploring the presence of theremins within a sculptural landscape, this opus places at its core the ideas of eternal rest, sound signal, calm, rhythmic senescence, and collectivity. A song for everyone. A solar ode for three human-theremins accompanied by sculptural instruments.

Are we not all theremins?
Let us lie here together, within a territory that resonates with gentle softenings.
Let us absorb. Wander. Travel.
For a moment of silence in this world
Filled with sound waves, a plastic landscape, and playful bodies,
a time for rest

Repos is a creation at the crossroads of dance, performance, music and visual art, co-created by Léandre Bourgeois, Louis Bouvier, Virginie Reid and Anne Thériault, with the participation of Naomi Hilaire, Marilyne St-Sauveur, Hannah Isolde and Marie-Ève Carrière.

Credits

Creation: Léandre Bourgeois, Louis Bouvier, Virginie Reid and Anne Thériault, with the creative and performative collaboration of Naomi Hilaire and Marilyne St-Sauveur
Dramaturgical Consultancy: Marie-Ève Carrière and Rosie Contant
Costumes: Hannah Isolde
Promotional Video: Louis Bouvier, Guillaume Marin, Alexia Toman
Promotional Images: Louis Bouvier
Delegated production: Lorganisme

With the support of the Conseil des arts de Montréal and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Upcoming dates

July 24 + 25, 2026 / Repos / La Chapelle du Cap – festival FURIES / Cap-au-Renard, QC, Canada