L’Amande et le diamant
“The dancers are strong, flexible and physically creative. (...) Chouinard produces explosive, unexpected and sensual choreography to music by Luciano Berio.”
«Her movement vocabulary takes basic impulses and urges and abstracts and magnifies them. Thus, her dancers possess extraordinary isolatory control of their bodies, being both sikily sinous and frenetically percussive (...) This is a wonderfully imaginative and realised work.»
“D’une très grande beauté charnelle et esthétique, L’amande et le diamant a de quoi ravir et faire rêver le spectateur le plus rébarbatif à la danse (...) l’univers de poésie sonore et visuelle dépasse presque l’imagination ... La fascination créée par cette oeuvre monumentale et extrêmement touffue demeure quasi sans limite.”
“Une œuvre puissante, tant par sa forme que par son contenu.”
“This Montreal-based choreographer has created something here that stretches the boundaries of contemporary dance. Chouinard deserves a medal.”
“By turns naughty, childish, sophisticated and brazen, L’amande et le diamant succeeds as a brilliantly self-contained work of unparalleled imagination.”
“The dancers are strong, flexible and physically creative. (...) Chouinard produces explosive, unexpected and sensual choreography to music by Luciano Berio.”
The Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane, 1998
«Her movement vocabulary takes basic impulses and urges and abstracts and magnifies them. Thus, her dancers possess extraordinary isolatory control of their bodies, being both sikily sinous and frenetically percussive (...) This is a wonderfully imaginative and realised work.»
The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, 1998
“D’une très grande beauté charnelle et esthétique, L’amande et le diamant a de quoi ravir et faire rêver le spectateur le plus rébarbatif à la danse (...) l’univers de poésie sonore et visuelle dépasse presque l’imagination ... La fascination créée par cette oeuvre monumentale et extrêmement touffue demeure quasi sans limite.”
Andrée Martin, Le Devoir, Montreal, 1996
“Une œuvre puissante, tant par sa forme que par son contenu.”
Linda Boutin, Voir, Le « Top ten 1996 » de la danse, Montreal, 1996
“This Montreal-based choreographer has created something here that stretches the boundaries of contemporary dance. Chouinard deserves a medal.”
Michael Scott, The Vancouver Sun, 1996
“By turns naughty, childish, sophisticated and brazen, L’amande et le diamant succeeds as a brilliantly self-contained work of unparalleled imagination.”
Deirdre Kelly, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 1996
