{{Short description|Canadian choreographer}} {{use mdy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Infobox artist | name = Peter Quanz | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1979|08|22}} | birth_place = Baden, Ontario, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | movement = | awards = | patrons = | imagesize = | field = Ballet | training = Royal Winnipeg Ballet School | works = ''In Tandem'' | influenced by = | influenced = }}
'''Peter Quanz''' (born August 22, 1979) is a Canadian choreographer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.<ref name="ChewDeReiter2010">{{cite book|author1=Leslie Chew|author2=Dwight DeReiter |author3=Cathy Doheny and Colin Gilbert|title=The Daily Book of Classical Music: 365 Readings that Teach, Inspire & Entertain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hLFhktcMXj8C&pg=PA196|date=1 September 2010|publisher=Walter Foster Publishing|isbn=978-1-60058-201-1|pages=196–}}</ref>
==Career==
In 2003 Quanz created ''SpringScape'' for the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company. Two years later, in March 2005, Quanz premiered his first full-length ballet, ''Charlie's Cruise'', for Ballett Chemnitz, which drew positive reviews. Later that year, Quanz was the recipient of the Clifford E. Lee Award, for which he created ''Quantz by Quanz'', a piece that was reconceived in 2009 for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. He also created ''Kaleidoscope'', his first tutu ballet, for the American Ballet Theatre.<ref name="Siegel2011">{{cite book|author=Marcia B. Siegel|title=Mirrors and Scrims: The Life and Afterlife of Ballet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJD5PtM1C-8C&pg=PT277|date=1 March 2011|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-7113-7|pages=277–}}</ref> This piece was reworked for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 2008. In 2007 Quanz was the first Canadian choreographer to create a ballet for the Kirov Ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre: ''Aria Suspended.''<ref name="Inc.2008">{{cite book|author=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.|title=Britannica Book of the Year 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QbCbAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA278|date=1 May 2008|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.|isbn=978-1-59339-494-3|pages=278–}}</ref>
In 2009 a group of dancers from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, working under Quanz's direction, performed his piece ''In Tandem'', a work set to Steve Reich's Pulitzer Prize-winning score ''Double Sextet''. ''In Tandem'' was commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum, Works & Process workshop. The success of this piece led Quanz to the form the ensemble Q Dance / Quanz Danse, which was launched in the spring of 2010. Q Dance has performed at a number of dance festivals and since 2013, has been included in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's seasons.<ref name="schabas">[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/theatre-reviews/dead-reckoning-dance-collaboration-takes-a-precarious-exploration-of-space/article28221933/ "dead reckoning: Dance collaboration takeef>s a precarious exploration of space"]. Martha Schabas. ''The Globe and Mail'', Jan. 15, 2016</ref>
In 2016, Quanz collaborated with Toronto choreographer Lucy Rupert to create ''dead reckoning'', a three-part dance piece inspired by Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition.<ref name=schabas /> That year he was also the choreographer of the dance-drama ''The Red Crane'', a production of the Wuxi Song and Dance Theatre from China, which also features Tristan Dobrowney of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.<ref>[https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2016/11/17/red-crowned-crane-a-ballet-bird-of-a-different-feather.html "Red-Crowned Crane a ballet bird of a different feather"]. ''Toronto Star'', November 17, 2016. page E1. Michael Crabb.</ref>
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