Valérie Pitre
Chorégraphe, Enseignant.e, Interprète, Scénographe
VALÉRIE PITRE BIOGRAPHY
A contemporary dance artist, performer, creator, and artist based in Quebec City, Valérie Pitre develops a multidisciplinary practice where movement, body percussion, improvisation, and theatricality converge in sensitive, instinctive, and deeply embodied worlds. Trained at the École de danse de Québec from 2011 to 2014, she has been building a rich and committed artistic career within the Quebec independent dance scene for over a decade.
As a performer, she collaborates with several leading dance and performance companies and artists, including Compagnie Mars elle danse (Soraïda Caron), Danse K par K, Collectif Austarda, Le Fils d’Adrien danse, Compagnie D’Eux, and Zia Lab Créatif. Her career has led her to perform at numerous festivals, venues, and artistic events across Quebec, including the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the OFFTA Festival, the Regard Festival, the Carrefour international de théâtre, and the Festival Réverbère.
Her artistic work is distinguished by an intuitive and organic approach to the body, nourished by improvisation and states of presence. She also develops her own creations and performances, including P=UI, REDEYES, Sous le silence, and Équilibre improbable, works that blend dance, text, ritual, and an exploration of human vulnerabilities.
A member of the company Les Malchaussées since 2015, she actively contributes to the promotion of gumboot dance and body music in Quebec and internationally. With the company, she participates in several international festivals and workshops, notably the International Body Music Festival and Musica do Circulo in Brazil, deepening a practice where voice, rhythm, and movement become tools for collective connection.
Alongside her work as a performer and creator, she acts as a mentor, artistic advisor, rehearsal coach and cultural commentator on university radio CHYZ 94.3. Her artistic approach seeks to create spaces of encounter between bodily power, poetic imagination and sensory experience, in a constant desire to break down the barriers between disciplines and to make art alive, accessible and profoundly human.