In 2017, Marco Pronovost was named one of five Canadian Young Cultural Innovators by the Canada Council for the Arts. He is an artist-mediator whose work qualifies as social art.

A choreographer, director and researcher, he explores the relationship with the public and challenges the fourth wall. Mr Pronovost is a Fellow of the Global Salzburg Seminar in Austria and manifests his interest in social art in other professional spheres — curator, mediator, consultant, instructor, lecturer and author. He is one of the few specialists who address issues of cultural mediation and public engagement as both an artist and a theorist. He graduated from the Graduate Institute, majoring in development studies. Mr Pronovost is also the curator of Tangente, a contemporary dance event company in Montréal.

Text from: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec