Françoise Riopelle

Françoise Riopelle (born 1927) is a Canadian dancer and choreographer. She is considered one of the pioneers of modern dance in Quebec.[1]

She was born Françoise Lespérance in Montreal. In 1959, she founded the École moderne de danse de Montréal with Jeanne Renaud, the first school in Canada dedicated to contemporary dance. The school participated in the first International Week of Today's Music/Semaine internationale de musique actuelle, a festival of contemporary music and dance that was held in Montreal in 1961. In 1978, she founded with Dena Davida the choreographer's collective "Qui danse?".

In 1946, she married the painter Jean-Paul Riopelle and went with him to Paris. The couple had two daughters but separated in 1953. She later married Pierre Mercure; the couple had a son.[1] Mercure died in 1966[2] and Renaud married Neil Chotem who died in 2008.[3]

Riopelle was a signatory to the Refus Global in 1948.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Fonds Françoise Riopelle" (in French). Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
  2. ↑ "Mercure, Pierre". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  3. ↑ "Neil Chotem Obituary". Montreal Gazette. February 23, 2008.
  4. ↑ "The Automatists and the Book". Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences, 1949–1951.
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