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Professional workshop

Emile Pineault + Nien Tzu Weng – More-than-Things : deepening our relationship to objects

06 ⇾ Apr. 10 2026 (Monday – Friday)

10:00 to 13:00

Weekly rate:$110

Drop-in:$28

Monday & Tuesday only
Teaching Language: Frenglish
Questions can be asked in:
French, English, Mandarin
Categories
#Creative process #Interdisciplinary #Toolbox

© Vjosana Skurti

Objective

Through touch, listening, improvisation, writing, risk-taking, and ephemeral composition, we will explore agency, napping as a creative act and the making of fleeting scenographies.

Content

In this workshop, participants will engage with objects through a series of playful tasks, constraints and scores inspired by the working methodology of Nien Tzu and Emile in their project More-than-Things (2022).

Workshop Rhythm

~ Adaptable to the group’s needs
~ Slow

Accessibility Features

~ Exercices are adaptable
~ Floor work
~ High music or sound level
~ Physical contact between participants
~ Short verbal explications
~ Sub-groups exercices
~ Visual support (i.e.documentation, texts…)

Biography

Nien Tzu Weng and Emile Pineault are Montréal / Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang-based interdisciplinary artists working at the intersection of dance, performance and visual arts. Nien Tzu, a Taiwanese-Canadian choreographer and lighting designer, explores movement, interactivity, and new media, playing with the balance between reality and fantasy. Emile, a choreographer, performer, and curator, delves into desires and sexualities, crafting sensory-driven performances that oscillate between unruliness and intensity. Collaborating for over five years, they have developed a shared artistic language rooted in curiosity and play. Their project More-than-Things, where they performed with 34 soft sculptures, explored touch, agency, and sensuality. The work was presented at Fabrik Potsdam, La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines, Carrefour Culturel Notre-Dame-des-Prairies and OFFTA Festival. 

Partners

This workshop is supported by the Conseil de la formation continue arts et culture de Montréal (CFC) in collaboration with Studio 303 and REPAIRE. The CFC’s continuing education activities are supported by the Intervention-Compétences program, thanks to the financial participation of the Quebec government.