Tony Chong

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Tony has built a formidable career as a dynamic, intense and generous performer. From January 2005 – January 2009, Tony was the Co-Artistic Director and then the Artistic Director of Le Groupe Dance Lab in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. After lending himself as a dancer to some of Canada's leading choreographers and companies, he is now applying these same attributes to his own choreographic work. With an emphasis on a unique and particular way of moving, he is interested in breaking lines that come from the centre of the torso and hips; a body de-constructed that moves organically as a whole. He has created The Berlin Project (a duo for 2 men), Interiors (a duo for man and woman), Le Naufragé (a solo), The Beauty of Wynona (7 dancers), and I See Much Less Than it is to Come (7 dancers), Revolver (7 dancers), Rupture (Dance Video with the music of Martha Wainwright), and L’Empreinte des Anges (duo based on Claudel and Rodin), Dillusions of Enchantment, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, and Bloodletting and Other Pleasant Things for Dancemakers Company, and Last Year’s Love Made This Year.

Tony Chong received his Bachelors of Arts degree with a major in Dance studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He continued his studies in New York at NYU's The Tisch School for the Arts and in San José, California with The Limon West and The Limon Company. Quickly after his studies, Chong began working with Vancouver's Kokoro Dance Theatre along with other local choreographers such as Grant Strate. Before setting his sights on Montréal, he danced in the works of Tom Stroud and Tedd Robinson with The Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers in Winnipeg.

Since arriving to Montreal, he has danced and toured internationally with companies such as La Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Carbon 14, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Dominique Porte's Système D, Louise Bedard Danse, and José Navas' Compagnie Flak, and Sinha Danse. He has also collaborated and worked with companies from abroad such as Germany’s Steptext Dance Theatre and Belgium's Ballet C de la B with Christine de Smedt.