SALIR

Clara Prieur :
Clara is a director, actress and contemporary dancer based in Montreal. Born in Marseille, France, she studied acting and dance in Paris, graduating from the Cours Florent and obtaining a master’s degree in theatre studies from the Sorbonne Paris III. She moved to Montreal in 2016 and delved into film studies at the University of Montreal, then pursued her education with Danielle Fichaud, Jean-Pierre Bergeron, and the directors Michel Monty and Chloé Robichaud. She entered the Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Montreal, from which she graduated in 2020.
Clara has performed in many dance and theatre shows, recent performances include Génération Danse, directed by Sophie Cadieux at Théâtre La Licorne, Montréal. She also performed in France, notably in SALIR, her dance-theatre show created with Corinne Spitalier, which was a great success at the Festival Off d'Avignon 2018. She played in Orphée et Eurydice directed by Eddy Garaudel with the Ensemble Pygmalion at the Bordeaux Pulsations Festival, filmed for Arte TV France. Clara will appear in the TV series About Antoine (Season 2) and The World of Gabrielle Roy (Season 3), she participated in Laetitia Demessence's feature film, shot in Mexico and Montreal.
As a film director, she has made several contemporary dance shorts and her first fiction short, MEMENTO MORI. Premiered at Fantasia international film festival in Montreal in 2024, this film has received acclaim in its festival circuit and earned the award for best production design at the Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival.

Corinne Spitalier :
Corinne was born and brought up in Mexico between the capital and the countryside. In 2017 she was awarded a Bachelor’s degree in visual arts and psychology from Concordia University, Montréal. She later completed contemporary dance training at the Nuova Officina della Danza in Turin.
Through an interdisciplinary research, Corinne’s work explores the idea of liminality, a term borrowed from the field of anthropology that designates the threshold, the quality of ambiguity, or the middle stage of a rite of passage.
Stemming from emotional and somatic self-explorations, her work investigates different states of the body and the spaces it inhabits. In this way, she weaves the study of presence, ephemerality and shared experience by sparking a dialogue on the singular and the collective, consciousness and instinct, death, metamorphosis and interdependence.
Corinne has had the opportunity to show her work in Canada, Mexico, France, Italy and Spain. More specifically, she has exhibited her visualwork in different galleries such as Skoll & Popop Gallery, Galerie d'Este, Studio XX, among others. The dance theater piece SALIR, created in collaboration with Clara Prieur, has been exhibited at the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Montréal and at the 2018 Off Avignon Festival.
Corinne has collaborated with the La Soledad Company as a dancer and choreographer, with whom she has performed at Kosmopolis, FIT Cadiz, Escenas do Cambio, Antic Teatre, Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, among others.
She is currently based in Barcelona, where she continues to develop her hybrid and collaborative practice, assisting in the production of socially engaged cutural projects, such as SURES_ 2023. with #Plantauno and Trasit Projectes.