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Mélanie Demers

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Mélanie Demers is a Canadian dancer and choreographer from Quebec, most noted as founder of the Mayday Danse company.[1]

She was born in Montreal, and raised in Quebec City. Formerly a dancer with the O Vertigo dance company, she launched Mayday Danse in the mid-2000s.[2] Works she has created with Mayday have included Les Angles morts,[3] Junkyard/Paradise,[2] Goodbye,[4] With a Trace,[5] La Goddam Voie Lactée,[6] and Confession pbblique.[7]

In 2024 she was named the recipient of the National Arts Centre Award from the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards.[8]

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