Free showing of Hélène Simoneau Danse with dancers Kevin J Shannon and Juan Duarte

Enjoy a free showing of Hélène Simoneau Danse at Kenmoe Community Center in Akron, OH when dancers Kevin J Shannon and Juan Duarte give audience members a glimpse into the choreography and contemporary dance movement of Hélène Simoneau and offer a Q&A session to learn more about the company!

This event is free and open to the public to attend.

About Hélène Simoneau:

Hélène Simoneau is a choreographer exploring themes of intimacy, agency, identity, sexuality, and power. Her choreography has been commissioned by Oregon Ballet Theatre, The Juilliard School, Charlotte Ballet, PARA.MAR Dance Theatre, Vitacca Ballet, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, BalletX, the Ailey School, Dimensions Dance Theatre, and the American Dance Festival. She was recently a Choreography Fellow at New York City Center and received a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. She has also been a resident artist at Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYU/Tisch, NCCAkron, and a fellow of The NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts, Ailey’s New Directions Choreography Lab, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Swiss International Coaching Project for Choreographers (SiWiC) in Zurich. Simoneau was awarded first place for Choreography at the 13th Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, for her solo “the gentleness was in her hands.” Originally from Luceville, a small village near Rimouski, in Eastern Québec, Simoneau now divides her time between Montréal and NYC.Simoneau was one of the first artists to participate in the National Center for Choreography at The University of Akron’s Dancing Lab program in 2017 and returned in March 2024 for a creative residency as part of their 21st Century Dance Practices program, in addition to a Body of Work: Dialogues on Dance showing for DANCECleveland audiences.

"A Choreographer-on-the-rise" with a style that is both "athletic and smooth"– Dance Magazine

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