Thok (2002) / Credits

Lucie Vigneault began her dance training in 1992 at the École de Danse du Québec and with the Ateliers de Danse Moderne de Montréal. She received her Bachelors in dance interpretation from the Université du Québec à Montréal, in 2001. She then worked with Ginette Prévost (La Luna and Les Oiseaux ont peur), Johanne Madore and Alain Francoeur (Orchestra by the Cirque Éloize) as well as with Jean-Sébatien Lourdais (Défaut de Fabrication). She is presently cast in Hélène Langevin's latest children's production Comme les cinq doigts de la main. Lucie joined Sinha Danse in 2001 for the creation of Thok.

Roger Sinha was born in England of an Armenian mother and an Indian father. In his work he explores themes of cultural dissonance and tensions created by the collision of East and West. Exploring his origins he uses tradition for a contemporary expression of his reality. Sinha's choreographic vocabulaire combines the subtleties of Indian dance, with the full body movements of modern, ballet and the martial arts.

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.