Emmanuel Jouthe biography
Emmanuel Jouthe started his career as a dancer. He danced in renowned choreographer’s pieces such as Paul-André Fortier, José Navas, Louise Bédard, Daniel Soulières, Pierre-Paul Savoie, Félix Ruckert and Julian Hamilton. He also collaborated with acting figures: Pascal Contamine, Robert Gravel, Jean-Pierre Ronfard and Paola de Vasconcellos.
He soon cofounded Carpe Diem Dance Company and is noticed as choreographer/dancer. After four years of artistic co direction with six other dancers and choreographers, Emmanuel Jouthe becomes, in 1999, the only artistic director of Carpe Diem Dance Company.
His unique movement signature involving brisk energy and dramatic intensity is quickly noticed by national and international producers, bringing him to multiple collaborations. In the past ten years, he added more than fifteen pieces to his repertoire.
Through his different creations, he questions temporality, intimacy and movement. His interests are mostly based on his perception of the dancing body, his feelings, the emotions related to these feelings, the human self. With these in perspective, he creates pieces combining captured moments of beauty, space, drama and time.
Always in a fever of new challenges, he collaborates with other artists and choreographers, as the ones of the collective La 2e porte à Gauche and Dance-Cité. These collaborations getting him to explore new stage territories (in situ) and new relations between the intimacy of the audience and the dance piece.
His desire to pass on and to work with younger dancers naturally brought him in creating new pieces for student dancers. In this path, he collaborated with renowned dance programs such as LADMMI, l’École de danse de Québec and The School of Dance (Ottawa). In addition, his repertoire was taught in Université du Québec à Montréal Dance program in 2000, 2005 and 2008.
To this date, Emmanuel Jouthe is one of the active choreographers in the Montréal’s dance universe. He is actually working on a new piece, CINQ HUMEURS, natural path of his creating process integrating professional dancers and finishing students of different schools (Montréal, Ottawa, Rimouski, Lennoxville, Québec, Sherbrooke).