About Kittie Bruneau

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Marguerite (Kittie) Bruneau
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    Bruneau was born in Montreal in 1929. She studied at École des beaux-arts de Montréal from 1946 to 1949, and studied for a year at the Montreal School of Arts under the supervision of Ghitta Caiserman-Roth.

    As a young woman, Bruneau was torn between the visual arts and dance. Following her studies, she travelled to Paris where she spent the next ten years. While in Europe, she danced in the corps de ballet for the Ballets de Rouen, and the Ballets de l’étoile of Maurice Béjart.

    In 1961, Bruneau moved to Bonaventure Island near Percé, Quebec where she lived and worked until 1972. At that time, the Province of Quebec evicted all residents in order to depopulate the island. Her island studio is preserved as part of the Île-Bonav...

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