Annick Lavallée-Benny - Teaching Artist

Annick Lavallée-Benny first completed a four-year theatre education in set and costumes design in Québec and worked independently in the fields of theatre and film before engaging into contemporary performance practice at the Norwegian Theatre Academy the 3 following years. She was awarded the Gold Medal for Most Promising Talent at the Prague Quadrennial 2011 in recognition of a large scale installation project. Since then, she alternates basis between Montreal, Berlin and more recently Paris. Her interests lie at the encounter of architecture, visual and live arts.

In the last years, she has collaborated with Robert Wilson on several projects dealing with space in various contexts. Amongst the most significant figure Monteverdi’s opera cycle for La Scala in Milan and Opéra Garnier in Paris, Verdi’s Macbeth in Bologna, Life & Death of Marina Abramovic which completed its tour at the Armory on Park in NY, Pushkin Fairy Tales at Moscow’s Theatre of Nations, a series of collaborations with Lady Gaga including 2013 MTV Video Music Awards and a video portrait series exhibited at Musée du Louvre, Garrincha created in São Paulo as well as The Old Woman and Letter to a Man both featuring Mikhaill Baryshnikov and have toured at Théâtre de la Ville. She most recently collaborated on Der Sandmann in repertory at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, on Luther – Dancing with the gods created with Berlin’s Rundfunkchor for Pierre Boulez concert hall as well as Oedipus for Pompei’s Teatro Grande, Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza and the ancient theatre of Epidaurus

Parallel in 2017-2018, she has been teaching and working as artist-in-residence at the National Theatre School of Canada (as part of the first Jenepher Margaret Hooper Design Residencies). Since then, she punctually support NTS students in their creative process as coach.