Photo credit: Alakrim Jadavji
Marie Lambin-Gagnon is a visual artist, choreographer, and dancer whose practice merges dance, photography, textiles, and installation. Among her many projects, she collaborated with Sara Cwynar on Red Film, presented at the São Paulo Biennial (2018), MoMA, and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. In 2019, she was commissioned by Toronto Dance Theatre for Slow Dance, earning a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination. In 2020, she created Slow Death for the Art Gallery of Ontario, blending found objects, electronic music, textiles, and Baroque paintings. The work was later presented at the Furies Festival (2022).
Recent commissions include Confluence for The Bentway and Body/Landscape for Toes for Dance and the Toronto Biennial of Art. She also presented Still Life as the first full-length work in the launch of Dance Made in Canada’s new Haute Couture program. The performance was co-presented with SummerWorks Festival and The Citadel/Ross Canter for Dance. Lambin-Gagnon is currently collaborating with Louise Bédard to create a new solo, which will premiere at the Festival des Faubourgs in Montreal.