Samuel Chouinard is a Canadian choreographer from

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. Chouinard has been an artistic director of École de Danse Denise Bonneau since 2005.

Career

Chouinard works as a dancer, a dance teacher and a choreographer and he was trained in hip-hop, ballet, jazz and contemporary dance. He works closely with ice dance coaches

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and

Patrice Lauzon Patrice Lauzon (born November 26, 1975) is a Canadian ice dancing coach and former competitor. With his wife Marie-France Dubreuil, he is a two-time (2006–2007) World silver medalist. Personal life Patrice Lauzon was born in Montreal, Quebe ...

at Gadbois Centre in

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. Chouinard's other clients include

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. As a figure skating choreographer, Chouinard clients have included: *

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/ Lewis Gibson *

Rikako Fukase Rikako Fukase (; born August 12, 1997) is a Japanese figure skater. She formerly represented Japan in ice dancing, skating with Aru Tateno and Eichu Cho (Oliver Zhang) at a total of four ISU Championships. With Cho, she is the 2020 NHK Trophy ...

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* Holly Harris / Jason Chan *

Kaitlin Hawayek Kaitlin Hawayek (born November 4, 1996) is an American ice dancer. With her skating partner, Jean-Luc Baker, she is the 2018 Four Continents champion, the 2018 NHK Trophy champion, and a four-time U.S. national bronze medalist (2019–22). E ...

Jean-Luc Baker Jean-Luc Baker (born October 7, 1993) is a British-American ice dancer. With his skating partner, Kaitlin Hawayek, he is the 2018 Four Continents champion, the 2018 NHK Trophy champion, and a four-time U.S. national bronze medalist (2019–22 ...

Mariia Holubtsova Mariia Oleksandrivna Holubtsova (; born 20 December 2000) is a Ukrainian ice dancer. With her skating partner, Kyryl Bielobrov, she is the 2021 Pavel Roman Memorial bronze medalist and a two-time Ukrainian national silver medalist. The duo compe ...

/ Kyryl Bielobrov *

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Gabriella Papadakis Gabriella Maria Papadakis (born 10 May 1995) is a retired French ice dancer. With former partner, Guillaume Cizeron, she is a 2022 Olympic champion, 2018 Olympic silver medalist, a five-time World champion (2015–2016, 2018–2019, 2022), a f ...

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Tessa Virtue Tessa Jane McCormick Virtue (born May 17, 1989) is a Canadian retired ice dancer. With ice dance partner Scott Moir, she is the 2010 and 2018 Olympic champion, the 2014 Olympic silver medallist, a three-time World champion (2010, 2012, 2017) ...

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