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Anne plamondon is a choreographer, performer, teacher and artistic director of anne plamondon productions (app)

founded in 2018. With an international career spanning more than twenty years, she has established herself as one of the most influential creators on the Canadian choreographic scene.

Recent Creation and Projects

Since her choreographic debut in 2012—with the solos Les mêmes yeux que toi and Mécaniques nocturnes, created in collaboration with Marie Brassard—Anne has been building a deeply sensitive body of work rooted in movement virtuosity and human connection.

Her most recent creation, MYOKINE (2023), has enjoyed strong international success in the United States, Canada, Germany, and New Zealand, solidifying the growing recognition of her choreographic voice.

In parallel, Anne is beginning development in 2025 on a new creation scheduled for fall 2027, continuing her exploration of the body, memory, and major human dynamics.

The year 2026 will also mark a period of significant commissions. Anne will create a new work for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, as well as a piece for Northwest Dance Project in Portland. She will also present a new creation at The Joyce Theater in New York, with a premiere set for January 2026.

Choreographic Background and Collaborations

Since founding APP, Anne has multiplied major collaborations, notably with the Fall for Dance North festival, where she created Counter Cantor (2018) in tandem with Emma Portner, and Fiddle Embrace for 18 dancers from the Ryerson School of Dance. She has also created works for Alberta Ballet, Arts Umbrella Dance, as well as film projects such as Espaces vitaux (2020), a semi-finalist at the Paris Play Festival.
In 2021, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal commissioned her to create Vanishing Mélodies, a large-scale work set to the music of Patrick Watson and created with Juliano Nuñes. In 2022, her duet Seulement toi, performed with James Gregg, was presented at Usine C, the National Arts Centre, and Harbourfront Centre, before touring across Quebec.

Her 2024 creation for Ballet Edmonton, Feel No More, further testifies to her ability to combine physical precision with emotional power.

Training and International Career

Trained at Canada’s National Ballet School, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and a graduate of the École supérieure de ballet du Québec, Anne began her career with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens before pursuing an impactful international trajectory with Nederlands Dans Theater 2 (1995–1998) and Gulbenkian Ballet (1998–2000). During this time, she performed in more than thirty works by Jiří Kylián, Hans Van Manen, Johan Inger, Angelin Preljocaj, Itzik Galili, and many others.

The RUBBERBAND Years and Other Milestones

Between 2002 and 2015, Anne played a key role within RUBBERBAND, first as a performer and later as artistic co-director. There, she developed a hybrid movement language influenced by hip-hop, ballet, and contemporary dance—an approach that continues to deeply inform her artistic evolution.

In parallel, she collaborated with Crystal Pite and Kidd Pivot (2007–2015) on Lost Action, Fault, The You Show, and the duet A Picture of You Falling, which received an Olivier Award.

Teaching and Transmission

Deeply committed to training the next generation, Anne shares her expertise at numerous institutions in Canada, including the École supérieure de ballet du Québec, the École de danse de Québec, the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, and Arts Umbrella Dance in British Columbia.
She also served as Associate Dance Curator at Domaine Forget de Charlevoix from 2018 to 2024, actively contributing to the artistic development and vitality of the program for six years.

Beyond her teaching work, Anne directly supports emerging dancers through the apprenticeship program of her company, a structure she developed to provide young graduates with their first professional experiences. This program allows them to take part in creation processes, rehearsals, and occasionally tours, while working closely with established artists—an essential stepping stone into the professional field.

On the international stage, Anne also shares her expertise as a guest teacher, notably at the B12 Festival in Berlin, the Henny Jurriëns Studio in The Hague, and through Transformation Danse in Montreal.

"I am driven by curiosity, by a quest for meaning, for revelation of my own truth and that of others. This quest is at the heart of my process - it ignites my inner fire.

Strange paradox: when I dance, my body takes over, gets restless or gives way, reveals its complexities, driven by the vibrations of music or a troubling inner state.

When that happens, I feel my dancing in its truest, purest form. From time to time, I achieve this state of grace, fleeting and mysterious. It is to find those moments of grace that I dance, again and again."

- Anne Plamondon

Anne Plamondon Productions receives the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and Conseil des arts de Montréal, and the administrative support of Diagramme - gestion culturelle.