Clara Furey is a Canadian multidisciplinary artist: singer-songwriter, actress, dancer and choreographer.
Biography
Clara Furey studied classical piano, music theory, harmony and analysis at the Conservatoire de Paris. She later became interested in dance and acting and graduated from the Montreal Modern Dance Studios in 2003. As a singer-songwriter she performed a piano-voice show at the Cabaret du Saint-Sulpice in Montreal and was a singer for a Rozankovic show at the Montreal World Film Festival. In 2004 Furey appeared in her first film role, in , directed by her mother, Carole Laure. In 2005 she went on tour with the dance company David Pressault Danse, performing in the showThey will not lie down. The following year she danced in the production Lost Pigeons presented at the Studio Monument-National in Montreal and part of the show Poésies, sandwichs et autres soirs qui penchent, staged by Loui Mauffette, presented as part of the Montreal InternationalLiterary Festival. In 2007 Furey played the lead role in the film Waitresses Wanted , directed by Guylaine Dionne. Furey suffered a rib injury in May 2010 during dance rehearsals for the TransAmériques Festival. Forced to rest, she concentrated on her music and in the fall of 2010 the Théâtre de Quat'Sous in Montreal provided her a three-night "carte blanche" in which she staged a performance of her songs. She cut the 15-song set in half for later concerts at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. During her convalescence she also took a small role in the film Sur la route. In 2011 she participated in Initiales S.G., a tribute to Serge Gainsbourg at the Francofolies de Montréal and had a sold-out show at the Montreal Jazz Festival. She also took part in Lady & Bird's opera, Red Waters. Furey has danced for choreographers Claude Godin, Georges Stamos, and Danielle Desnoyers. In 2013 she danced with Damien Jalet at the Musée du Louvre. In 2015 Furey and Peter Jasko staged Untied Tales . Quebec Danse described it as a provocative piece with an invisible danger urging the two performers to escape their environment. At the end of 2016, after several collaborations, Furey became an associate artist of Par B.L.eux. The organization provided administrative and logistical support, and helped her restage Untied Tales. In 2017 Furey staged her first group work, Cosmic Love, in collaboration with her brother, composer Tomas Furey, featuring four performers in a choreographed piece with light and sound media in a striped-down performance space. Furey took part in the MACM's Leonard Cohen exhibition with a 90-minute silent dance piece as a meditation of passing time.
