Danièle Lévesque - Teaching Artist, Set & Costume Design, Mise en Scène

For more than 30 years, the originality and boldness of 1983 National Theatre School graduate’s work has shaken up the set and costume design world in Quebec and across Canada. Through her creative innovation, Danièle Lévesque has redefined set and costume design as a living art while establishing herself as a true image maker.  

She has worked on most Quebec’s stages and thoroughly explored repertory theatre, the creative and avant-garde world of opera, dance and museum scenography. She is credited with creating the remarkable set and costume design for the Femmes corps et âmes exhibit at the Musée de la Civilisation in Québec City, which garnered an Award of Outstanding Achievement from the Canadian Museums Association in 1998. She has collaborated with stage directors such as Brigitte Haentjens, Alice Ronfard, René Richard Cyr and Lorraine Pintal, each of whom brought a very different approach to the craft. In line with them, she successfully and innovatively brought to life the universes of Muller, Euripides, Genet, Molière, Ducharme and Gauvreau. 

An instructor with NTS since 1992, she headed up the Set and Costume Design program from 2002 to 2014. Her work currently focuses on a creative research project examining the power of images and their spatial arrangement.  

Photo Credit: Maxime Côté | Updated: July 25th, 2022

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