Eve Garnier

• ACADEMIC WORK
• Teaching: Interpretation and technique classes in contemporary dance and interrelational practices.
• Member of the curriculum revision committee.
• Founder of the Indigenous Perspectives Reflection Committee: How can we create physical and intellectual spaces in today's university environment where Indigenous artists and thinkers have the autonomy to shape teaching according to their own practices? To what extent can the dance department establish an innovative and sustainable link with Aboriginal practices?
• Part-Time Professors’ Union representative at UQAM (SPPEUQAM), representing the Dance Department.
• CREATION IN ACADEMIC FRAMEWORK

May 2021

Vu d’ici tout va bien !

Idea and artistic direction by Eve Garnier, co-directed with visual artist Julien Blais, photographed and edited by Julien Blais.

A dance video featuring 12 student dancers and their relationship to dance. Based on an autobiographical narrative, the student artists evoke their relationship with dance in a personal way.

Broadcast for Dance Day 2021, commissioned and produced by UQAM's Dance Department.

May 2020

C’est juste une petite danse

Idea and Artistic Director

Live performance on ZOOM. Invitation from the dance department to create a site-specific event for Dance Day 2020. Because of the pandemic, the project turned to exploring the possibilities of presenting live on Zoom. In close collaboration with the student artists, we investigated the notion of collective remote creation: a virtual ecology. This project has been a laboratory for exploring our relationship with the virtual space of others and led us to question our points of reference when addressing personal and public space.

• ON GOING WORK 2024-2026
• - Destination Danse, choreography Dominique Porte/Système D
• Performer
• Dance conference for the wider audience on the history of contemporary dance
• The aim of this work, told through the experiences of three local dance artists, is to make people curious about dance as a profession and as a performing art.
• Destination Danse actively engages in community building and promote a sense of inclusion and diversity through various citizen mediation in collaboration with the Maisons de la culture Villeray-Parc-Extension and Janine Sutto in Montreal, as well as a series of workshops in the schools of the Montreal school board.
• Dance film (work in progess)
• - Channeling revisited
• Performer and co-creator with Stefan Nitoslawski
• The Chanelling solo, choreographed by Martin Bélanger, will be reenacted. It had been created as part of a shared evening, Straigh right ou l'art d'être nulle part ailleurs, in collaboration with Victoria May.
• This solo has been described by critics as a poetic hyperbole about waiting in an immigration situation. Eve Garnier exposes her own body as an archive clustered by personal and cultural memories, ancestors or invisible forces in a vacuum like space in suspension.

2020-22

• Méres et mouvements d’enfants by Marie Claire Forté

Performer

The choreographer Marie Claire Forté invited mother dancers to observe their children moving and to recreate their gestures as best they could. Projected onto the windows in the foyer of the Centennial Theatre, images of women dancing alone and virtually together invite us to contemplate a choreographic language extracted from its usual context, rendered by artists observing a child – the other – with curiosity and love.

2021

• Morphoses de Martin Bélanger

Assistant to creation, dramaturgy

Théâtre La Chapelle, Montréal, QC

Oscillating between science, mythology, poetry and spirituality, this work offers an ever-fluid hybridity of genres, revealing a strange beauty: trouble.

2015-20

• Hors Je autobiographical solo by Dominique Porte

Maisons de la cultures de Montréal et tournées internationnales

Assistant to creation, dramaturgy

How can we avoid repeating ourselves over and over again? Choreographer Dominique Porte calls into question her creative practices and her bodily habits. Full of unvarnished truth and humour, this return to her creative patterns leads us to question our own and society's constant quest for the (re)new.

2017 - 2019

• 8 wishebones and Absorbed in silence by choreographer Victoria may

Performer and assistant to creation

5ème Salle, Montréal

The two choreographies are inspired by Victoria May's research into her Métis heritage. Her research is rooted in her relationship with memory, space and displacement.

• Implemented data-driven decision making processes by analyzing program outcomes to inform future improvements in the delivery of services.

2009 – 2019

• Compagnie Marie Chouinard

Member of the company as a performer until 2012

Member of the compagnie as rehearsal director from 2012 to 2019

As rehearsal director, the challenges of mediating with the audience and creating innovative systems for handing over roles is at the heart of her practice.

2006-08

• Archauz Choreographic Centre + Mancopy DanseCompani, Danemark

Founding member of the first choreographic centre in Denmark (now the Bora Bora centre).

Performer, permanent member of the contemporary dance company Mancopy, associated with the centre.

2001-2004

• Danish Royal Opera

Performer, corps de ballet

2013

• To go somewhere, site specific choreographic project

Artistic direction and Performer

Choreography: Dominique Porte

Through dance we explore fundamental questions about public spaces and their dynamics. We have invested several public spaces with our one hour performance, such as a roof, a garage, a library, an municipal institution hall, an architect building and many others. The nature of community and how we want to come together to make shared decisions in space was our conductor, so both performers and audiences could interact on the trajectory of the piece.

2011

• Staright right ou l’art d’être nulle part ailleurs

Co artistique direction with Victoria May and performer

Choreographers : Louise Bédard, Dominique Porte, Andres Christiansen et Martin Bélanger

Esapce Go, Montreal et tournées internationales

Two women, highly experienced dancers, reflect together on their migratory identity through chronicles directed by four choreographers, three from Quebec and one from Denmark, a composer from Montreal and a photographer from Berlin. The dancers share a narrative that is constantly under construction, a cross-over between the way they look at the other and the way the other looks at them. Between testimony and invention, memories blend and interweave. The fragments thus assembled reveal these sinuous trajectories in a variety of choreographic colours.

DANCE

2005-2009

Preformer Creation and International touring

Mancopy Dance Company (Denmark)

Cobos/Mika (Spain)

Flying Pigs (UK/Denmark)

Time Feldman/Wilda (Denmark)

ACTING

2005-2019

Commercial work

Kinnarps kontormøbler, Bacon CPH production (Denmark/Poland).

Tips & Lotto, Bullet production (Denmark).

DR Event, Danish Television (Denmark).

TV2 Mobilcom, Bullet production, directed by Niels Gråbøl (Denmark).

Poolia, Bacon CPH production, directed by Martin Werner (Sweden).

Fair Forsikring, Bacon CPH production, directed by Kasper Wedendahl (Denmark).

Hatting Brød, Farfromhollywood production,directed by Ragnar Janson (Denmark/Norway).

Short films and series

Klaverstemmeren, directed by Kresten Kusk (Denmark) – Supporting Role.

L’État, directed by Lysandre Cosse-Tremblay – Role: The Teacher (Montreal).

L’Auberge du chien noir, Supporting and Silent Roles, Radio Canada (Montreal).

Les Simones, Speaking and Silent Roles, Radio Canada (Montreal).