FTA names new co-executive and administrative director

>> by Samantha Mehra
Festival TransAmériques (FTA) recently announced the appointment of Christine Bouchard as co-executive and administrative director. Bouchard, who is replacing Caroline Lussier (now the head of the Dance Section at the Canada Council for the Arts), will share general management roles with Marie-Hélène Falcon, the festival's co-executive and artistic director. Bouchard's past experience includes serving as cultural programming director at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, as general manager of LADMMI school of contemporary dance, and as general manager of the Société de développement des arts et de la culture in Longueil, where she was also head of that city's arts and culture division.