Samuel Chouinard is a Canadian choreographer from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. Chouinard has been an artistic director of École de Danse Denise Bonneau since 2005.

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Career

Chouinard works as a dancer, a dance teacher and a choreographer[1] and he was trained in hip-hop, ballet, jazz and contemporary dance. He works closely with ice dance coaches Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon at fr:Complexe récréatif Gadbois in Montreal. Chouinard's other clients include Cirque du Soleil.[2]

Choreographic career

Chouinard co-choreographed several programs for Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the two-time Olympic ice dance gold medalists. The notable ones are their Prince short dance for the 2016–2017 figure skating season[3] and their 2018 Olympic free dance Moulin Rouge!.[4] Chouinard choreographed several show programs for them, since 2014. He has involved in choreographing programs for three-time World ice dance champions Gabriella Papadakis & Guillaume Cizeron,[5][6] two-time US ice dance champions Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue,[7] and Olympic Gold medalist Nathan Chen.[8]

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