# Peter Quanz

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{{Short description|Canadian choreographer}}
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| birth_place      = [Baden, Ontario](/source/Baden%2C_Ontario), Canada
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| training      = [Royal Winnipeg Ballet School](/source/Royal_Winnipeg_Ballet_School)
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'''Peter Quanz''' (born August 22, 1979) is a Canadian [choreographer](/source/choreographer) based in [Winnipeg](/source/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](/source/American_Ballet_Theatre_Studio_Company). Two years later, in March 2005, Quanz premiered his first full-length ballet, ''Charlie's Cruise'', for [Ballett Chemnitz](/source/Ballett_Chemnitz), which drew positive reviews.  Later that year, Quanz was the recipient of the [Clifford E. Lee Award](/source/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](/source/Tutu_(clothing)) ballet, for the [American Ballet Theatre](/source/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](/source/Les_Grands_Ballets_Canadiens) in 2008. In 2007 Quanz was the first Canadian choreographer to create a ballet for the [Kirov Ballet](/source/Kirov_Ballet) of the [Mariinsky Theatre](/source/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](/source/Steve_Reich)'s [Pulitzer Prize](/source/Pulitzer_Prize)-winning score ''[Double Sextet](/source/Double_Sextet)''. ''In Tandem'' was commissioned by the [Guggenheim Museum](/source/Solomon_R._Guggenheim_Museum), [Works & Process](/source/Works_%26_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](/source/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](/source/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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