Marc Parent
lighting designer

Marc Parent has worked as a lighting designer since 1987, creating designs for many choreographers in Montreal’s contemporary dance scene, as well as theatre, opera, and for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal. Since 1990 Marc has lit most of Peggy Baker’s solo work and all of her ensemble dances for the stage. Marc’s extraordinary work with Peggy Baker Dance Projects has garnered Dora Mavor Moore Awards in lighting design for two Toronto seasons: Split Screen Stereophonic (2013), and Phase Space (2016).

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: a key collaborator for the entire breadth of the company’s life, Marc designed the lighting for who we are in the dark , unmoored, locus plot, Aleatoric Solo No. 2, Aleatoric Trio No. 1, stone leaf shell skin, Aleatoric Duet No. 2, epilogue, Split Screen Stereophonic, Aleatoric Solo No. 1, Piano/Quartet, armour, coalesce, earthling, Portal, A Woman By A Man, Dreaming Awake, Krishna’s Mouth, Yang, Unfold, loin, très loin, Cirrus, Sylvan Quartet, Strand, One Voice, Encoded Revision, Why The Brook Wept, In a Landscape, Savanna, Black Border with Moving Figures, Brute, Geometry of the Circle, La vie de bohème, Beautiful Day, Brahms Waltzes, Ten Suggestions, This isn't the End, Inner Enchantments, Person Project (redux), Sanctum, Sand, Le charme de l'impossible, Romeo and Juliet before Parting, and The Windows