René plays the piano and Germaine convinced teacher friends Marie-Claire Bouchard and France Proulx to help her set up a ballet school in Alma to facilitate access to artistic training in their remote part of the country.

His teachers included Sergiu Stefanschi, Reginald Amatto, Mavis Staines, Lindsay Fischer, Peggy Baker and Christopher House.

He received additional training at the summer School of the Hamburg Ballet in 1998 where he worked directly with John Neumeier and many other renowned European teachers.

At age 19, he made his debut as Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, making him the youngest person in the company to dance that role.

[2] "Dramatic and athletic, with an ability to jump as though his feet are equipped with hidden springs, it's not hard to figure out why Côté has been asked to guest perform with many of the best ballet companies on the planet."

In 2020, he made his debut at the New York City Ballet, dancing Swan Lake with Sara Mearns, in order to replace an injured Tyler Angle.

[12] The show offered an assortment of repertoire pieces and works by Nacho Duato, Christopher Wheeldon, Roland Petit, Marco Goecke and Marcelo Gomes, among others.

Guillaume Côté was part of a cohort that included José Manuel Carreño, Marcelo Gomes, David Hallberg, Leonid Sarafanov, Nikolay Tsiskaridze and Ivan Vassiliev.

[13] In Kings of the Dance, Guillaume Côté performed Four Four by Christopher Wheeldon and Pas de deux by Roland Petit in Costa Mesa and at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.

He also danced Jazzy Five by Mauro Bigonzetti, Tue by Marco Goecke and KO'd by Marcelo Gomes, at the New York City Centre, the London Coliseum, the Mikhailovsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, as well as in Novossibirsk, Riga, Rostov and Buenos Aires.

"Respected internationally for his outstanding musicality, technique and dramatic interpretation"[14], Guillaume Côté has performed the main roles in the classical repertoire and may hold some sort of record for Swan Lake, having danced versions by seven choreographers: James Kudelka, Peter Martins after Petipa, Mikhail Messerer, Vladimir Bourmeister, Patrice Bart, Derek Deane and Mario Galizzi.

"Much as he possesses a stage Côté also loves the studio – he describes himself as 'a crazy rehearsal freak' – and being part of the creation of new work is what excites him most".

[15] French critic Antonellla Poli wrote: "Guillaume Côté, star of the National Ballet of Canada, is unique: his talent, crystal-clear intelligence, ease on stage, musicality and artistic sensibility make him exceptional".

[18] He collaborated with set designer Michael Levine and composer Kevin Lau, and consulted Antoine de Saint-Exupéry authority Adam Gopnik.

Côté also choreographed for Olympic-winning ice dancing duo Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir[21] that was performed during their farewell tour with "Rock the Rink".

Informed by his classical ballet vocabulary, Guillaume Côté's choreography contours space with resonant geometries and fervent human connections.

[24] Created with digital imagery wizard Thomas Payette,[25] this unique experimental immersive multimedia work involved two dancers, state-of-the-art projections and three-dimensional choreography.

[30] Founded in 1992 (as Festival des Arts Hiawatha), FASS has become the largest regional dance presenter in the country, inviting internationally acclaimed as well as up-and-coming artists and companies to perform under a Big Top in front of an avid and open-minded audience.

Greta Hodgkinson, Friedemann Vogel, Louise Lecavalier, Misty Copeland, Margie Gillis, Sara Mearns, Cesar Corrales, Anne Plamondon, Tiler Peck, Xander Parish, Daniel Ulbritch, Michelle Dorrance, Fabrice Calmels, Evelyn Hart, Julian MacKay.

In 2020, FASS won the Prix Opus as the Specialized presenter of the year in Quebec for a digital edition that was put together with the collaboration of conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain to make up for the impossibility of holding the event in its usual format during the pandemic.