Apricot Trees Exist - 2004 / Credits

Benoit Leduc graduated form the l'École Supérieur de Danse du Québec. He worked as a dancer with Jeune Ballet de Québec and the Grands Ballets Canadiens.

He flew to Argentina to master the art of Tango as a teacher. He worked on various dance pieces, musicals and circus art with choreographer such as Jean Grandmaître, Jean-Jacques Pillet, Debra Brown (Cirque du Soleil), Luc Tremblay (Compagnie Les Gens D'R: en tant que danseur acrobate aérien), Richard Tremblay Danse Kalashas, José Navas et le White Oak Dance Project Company and Sinha Dance.

Julie Marcil worked several companies and choreographer such as O'Vertigo, Sinha Danse, Bouge de Là, Estelle Clareton, David Pressault et many others. Few years back, her interest in theatre has grown and she participated in 2 excerpt directed by Jacques Rossi and 2 independant short films. The mixture of contemporay dance and theatre has become essential to her artistic growth.

Magdalena Nowecka began her formation in contemporary dance at St-Laurent College in Montreal and persued her studies at Les Ateliers de danse moderne de Montréal (LADMMI). Since 2003, Magdalena has worked with choreographers Lucie Grégoire (Hatysa ou l'envers d'uine étoile), Claude Godin (Magnet-Mesc) and Sarah Bild (Mutiny). She is also teachning dance and partnering work. Magdalena has been a member of Sinha Dance since 2003.

Sophie Lavigne studied in danse at the University of Quebec in Montreal. In 1995, she received her bachelor degree having as concentration education of dance and 3 years later she got the dancers diploma as such.

As a dancer, Sophie Lavigne worked with a variety of choreographers: Deborah Dunn, Lynda Gaudreau, Estelle Clareton, Gaétan Gingras, Mariko Tanabe, Ginette Prévost et Motaz Kabbani to name a few. In 1999, Sophie joined Sinha Danse team as a dancer in the serveral pieces: Loha, Thok, Chaï and Apricot trees exist. Aside from her dancers career, Sophie works as a coach for Roger Sinha, Lynda Gaudreau and Héloïse Rémy and as a teacher at Montmorency College.

Thomas Casey completed a bachelor of arts 'ex honoris' in dance at the University of Winnipeg.   As a member of  Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers he traveled to Montréal to remount  choreographer Jean-Pierre Perreault's classic, JOE. In April, 2004 he will return to the cast of JOE for the show's 20th anniversary world tour. With Sinha Danse Tom is able to explore dance as a mixture of "meaningful gesture" (as words on a page) and pure movement in the dynamic sense. Tom is grateful to have been actively collaborating with Sinha Danse since 1996.