For over twenty years, the originality and daring nature of the work of this NTS alumna (1983) have astounded the set and design world in Québec. Danièle Lévesque has worked on the majority of Quebec’s stages and has explored repertory, creative and avant-garde theatre as well as opera, dance and museum design (Femmes corps et âmes, Musée de la Civilisation, in Québec City, 1996-97; Award for Outstanding Achievement from the Canadian Museums Association). Her highly personal style and signature are rooted in architecture, the choice of materials and the accumulation of objects. She has worked with directors whose approaches are markedly different, such as Brigitte Haentjens, Alice Ronfard, René Richard Cyr, and Lorraine Pintal, with whom she succeeded in giving form, in innovative fashion, to the worlds of Muller (Quartett d’Heine Muller, Espace Go, 1996), Ducharme (Ha ! Ha !, 1990; Inès Pérée et Inat Tendu, 1991), Molière (Don Juan, Stratford Festival, 2006), and Gauvreau (L’Asile de la pureté, 2004 and Les Oranges sont vertes, 1998, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde). Her talent has been unanimously hailed by critics and she has twice been nominated for a Siminovitch Prize.
A teacher at the National Theatre School of Canada since 1992, Danièle Lévesque was appointed Director of the Set and Costume Design Program in 2002.

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