Mission and Mandate
To create, stimulate and unite
Celebrating this year its 20th anniversary, PPS Danse renews its mission and reaffirms the profound values that animate it. Openness, creativity, humanism, sharing and commitment are the forces that continue to drive the company’s activities. These values are manifest in the production of original choreographic works and in PPS Danse’s involvement for the democratization of contemporary dance.
By investing the fields of creation, cultural initiative and disciplinary development, PPS Danse confirms its position as a pillar of Quebec’s dance community. Today, the company extends the range of its activities through international collaborations and creations for young audiences. By inviting a greater number of outside creators to contribute to the company’s repertoire, its founder Pierre-Paul Savoie now carries out his role as artistic director from a renewed perspective.
Creation
Since 2007, PPS Danse has favored exchanges between local and international creators through invitations, collaborations, co-creations and co-productions. Nonetheless, the company continues to assert its own particular signature by producing interdisciplinary works that renew the choreographic vocabulary by integrating dramaturgy and theatrical elements.
Whether they are intended for adults or for young audiences, its poetic and accessible creations illustrate the human condition and social issues.
Cultural initiative
Cultural initiatives conducted by PPS Danse since its’ foundation have been guided by three main ideas: openness, dialogue and interaction. Each work is an opportunity to provoke new encounters and to initiate lively exchanges, adapted to the life contexts of different audiences.
In order to promote a larger audience for contemporary dance, the company strives to awaken curiosity, to pass on keys for understanding the work and to develop tastes and critical observation. These faculties are stimulated through performances, workshops, conferences and discussion forums animated by Pierre-Paul Savoie in various schools, community centers and professional milieus where partnerships have been established.
Disciplinary development
Through his involvement in the community, Pierre-Paul Savoie has contributed to the development of dance, its visibility and the improvement of its conditions of practice. He has always made it a point of honor to support younger generations of dance artists. For this reason, PPS Dance offers mentorships, shared resources and residencies to help emerging companies in Quebec with their artistic development and their management issues.