Assistant Artistic Director

Stéphanie Brochard

Stéphanie Brochard trained in both dance and theatre. She studied at the Conservatoire national de region in Angers, France, at L’École de Danse de Québec and went on to graduate from the teacher training program at The National Ballet School of Canada. She also studied at l’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where she discovered the world of physical theatre and clown. She teaches on a regular basis in various dance training programs, in addition to offering different workshops. Stéphanie Brochard joined the Sursaut Dance Company in 2008, and performs in all the company’s productions as a dancer and is also Assistant Artistic Director since 2011. She also works with Les Jardins Chorégraphiques and Danse Cadence, two baroque dance companies in Montreal. In 2015, she created Me2, her first choreographic work, which is currently touring in Quebec and Canada with the Sursaut Dance Company. She also participated in the production Essaim, in which she presented her most recent solo creation, Compromis improbable, a project born of the desire to explore a new choreographic vocabulary by creating a fusion of baroque and contemporary dance.