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By Sid Smith

 

Choreography--and all art, for that matter--springs from unseen places, a mysterious process of creation that stems from plenty of sources, artists report, from personal experience to global events.

 

Marie Chouinard, the Montreal-based choreographer whose eponymous company is about to visit the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, has about as singular a source for her version of "The Rite of Spring" as you can imagine: an hallucinatory vision.