Catherine Legrand

Catherine Legrand is a dancer, performer and teacher. In 1982, she met Dominique Bagouet and joined his company, where she danced until 1993. Since then, she has often taught his repertoire to different companies, working with the association Carnets Bagouet. In 2012, she recreated Jours étranges for a group of teenage dancers in collaboration with Anne Karine Lescop and Le Triangle de Rennes. Since 1992, she has danced, and continues to dance with a number of choreographers, including Michel Kelemenis, Olivia Grandville and Xavier Marchand, Hervé Robbe, Alain Michard, Boris Charmatz, Sylvie Giron, Laurent Pichaud, Deborah Hay, Loic Touzé, Emmanuelle Huynh, and Dominique Jégou. In 2016-17, she created a new version of Dominique Bagouet’s Jours étranges exclusively for female dancers, which premiered at the Triangle de Rennes as part of the TNB “Mettre en scène” festival in 2016, and later toured France with 25 performances. 

In Rennes, she joined a new collective of dancers, Réservoir Danse, where she gives workshops on teaching repertoire. In 2017, Catherine Legrand danced in Hervé Robbe’s new creation, A New Landscape. In 2018, she joined the company DCA-Philippe Decouflé on tour as an assistant choreographer. She ran two workshops teaching the repertoire of Dominique Bagouet, at the Angers National centre for contemporary dance (CNDC) and at the Superior national conservatory of music and dance in Paris (CNSMDP). She created the duo Un Tracé, with Brigitte Châtaignier, and danced Engelsam, en jeu, a new work by Katja Fleig. Catherine Legrand is currently working on three new projects: So Schnell by Dominique Bagouet, a 2020 reconstruction; Suite pour Tango, a work for 24 dancers, in collaboration with Olivier Ferec, based on the film Tango by Zbigniew Rybczynski; and an adaptation of Jours étranges for twelve amateur dancers, at the request of Dominique Boivin. 

Source: website of the Triangle (Rennes)