Samuel is the creator and director of Bosch Dreams, Triptyque, and The Fibonacci Project. He co-created and co-directed Vice & Vertu and Intersection and was a featured artist in Triptyque, Le Murmure du Coquelicot, La Vie, and Loft. In 2014, he co-directed Luces Fugaces, a special creation for the Festival de las Luces in Medellin (Colombia). As the first international director invited by the Imre Baross Circus Arts School in Hungary to stage its annual show, Samuel directed Rengeteg – Looking Out in 2018. Samuel is currently the President of En Piste (the Canadian circus arts association). He is involved in research and development with the Canada Industrial Research Chair in Circus Arts in collaboration with key academics and industry leaders. 

Samuel’s hand-balancing career includes more than 1,500 performances of Alegria (Cirque du Soleil), several tours with Orchestra (Cirque Eloize), and performances in many cabarets. His work garnered several awards including a Bronze Lion at Wuquio Acrobatic Festival in China and a silver medal at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris

CHORÉGRAPHE INVITÉE - Anne & Samuel (Pièce #1)

Marie Chouinard, choreographer, is the Executive and Artistic Director of COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD, Founding Chair of the Prix de la Danse de Montréal, an Associate Dance Artist of the Canada’s National Arts Centre and Director of Dance at the Venice Biennale.

Since its foundation in 1990, COMPAGNIE MARIE CHOUINARD has performed all over the world, and co-produces its creations with renowned partners such as the Venice Biennale, the ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival (Vienna), the Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Festival TransAmériques (Montreal) and the National Arts Centre (Ottawa).

The COMPAGNIE has a vast repertoire of works, most still performed internationally. The Rite of Spring has been performed for almost 25 years and become a classic in the history of contemporary dance.

The choreographer's works also appear in the repertoires of major ballet companies such as the National Ballet of Canada, the São Paulo Companhia dance, the Ballets de Monte-Carlo, the GöteborgsOperan and the Gulbenkian Ballet.

Moreover, since 2015, Marie Chouinard has created works for other companies, such as the Martha Graham Dance Company and Ballets de Monte-Carlo.

An author, set and lighting designer, photographer and film director, her opus includes multimedia works (Cantique no 3, Icônes, and CORPS CÉLESTES) films (bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS, MARIE CHOUINARD: THE RITE OF SPRING, and the music video Jamais by Serge Fiori), a collection of poems entitled Chantier des extases, the photo-installation Paradisi Gloria, an art exhibit entitled DRAWINGS and an application for iPad and iPhone, CANTIQUE, free from the App Store.

A true cultural ambassador for Quebec, Marie Chouinard has received several awards and distinctions in recognition of her contribution to the arts, including the Bessie Award (New York, 2000), the Order of Canada (2007), the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 2009), the Samuel de Champlain Award (France, 2014), the Ordre national du Québec (2015), the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement (Canada, 2016), the Positano "Choreographer of the Year" Award (Italy, 2016) and the Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts (Canada, 2016). The name of Marie Chouinard became a dictionary entry in Le Petit Larousse, illustrated edition, in 2010 and in Le Robert in 2011.