Danielle Lecourtois

With a background in corporal mime, theatre and dance, Danielle Lecourtois is a multi-faceted artist. She derives her inspiration from real and fictitious characters and creates movement that is particular for its theatrical physical approach. She works by turns as a choreographer, performer, coach, actor (stage and cinema), assistant director, wardrobe master and artistic coach. In dance, she assisted choreographer Philippe Decouflé for the Bicentennial Parade on the Champs Elysées in Paris. As a choreographer/performer, she devised a double act with Peter James, Mange mon cœur en corps un peu, which was selected by Les Bancs d’Essais Internationaux and shown in several European countries. On stage, she plays character roles as much in first productions (La fête des Morts directed by Céline Bonnier and Nathalie Claude) as in repertory theatre, (Les Belles Sœurs directed by Denise Filliatrault). An incursion into the world of theatre led her to devise the choreography for Mademoiselle Julie, directed by Denise Filliatrault. She has worked for many years alongside multidisciplinary artist Nathalie Derome. In cinema, she played Lotte Lenya, a musical film inspired by the work of Kurt Weill with choreography by Ginette Laurin. She has worked on several occasions with Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon, as a virtual character in multidisciplinary productions, Le Grand Hôtel des Étrangers and Territoire Intérieure. She has worked with Cirque du Soleil since 2000, as artistic coach with the Formation Générale des Artistes on different acrobatic apparatus, as well as with the Formation Spécifique de Rôles in the Cirque du Soleil shows. In 2007, she worked on the creation of Love as performance assistant. She has also been part of the team of Artistic Advisors since 2007 and works with the students of the National Circus School in Montreal.