Benches - 2010 version / 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.

Having graduated with honors, in 1995, from the École Supérieure de Danse du Québec and finished 8 years of training with the Kala Bharati school of Bharata Natya dancing, Neelanthi Vadivel began her professional career with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and the Ontario Ballet Theatre. In 1998, she joined the ranks of Les Ballets jazz de Montréal and, since 2001, has also been dancing for the choreographer Roger Sinha.

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.