Alec Turgeon – more than myth: bone, skin, eyelashes, teeth
Jun. 29 ⇾ Jul. 10 2026 (Monday – Friday)
© Kristina Hilliard
Biography
Alec Turgeon (he/him) is a transsexual dance artist from amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, AB), based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal, QC). His choreographic work evolves from a deep desire to pull the intricacies of human experience into visibility; to hold, to question, and to move embodied wisdom through space and time. Alec is excited by dance’s ability to orient collective focus and generate transcendental empathy between mover(s) and witness(es). Lately, he is invested in staging trans embodiment and practicing communal trans worlding in experimental dance and performance. His work is informed by radio transmission, time travel, physical media, the invisible, and DIY low-tech scenographic exploration. Alec holds a BFA in Contemporary Dance (Concordia University, 2026) with a minor in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality.
Project Details
more than myth: bone, skin, eyelashes, teeth is an in-progress performance imagining arts of living attuned to transgender experience. Insisting on the inherent porosity and multiplicity of the human body, dancers blur and melt the edges between self and environment, unravelling, entering new skins, becoming and unbecoming. Through the continued doing of different ways of being, the self becomes unfixed; surfacing in a boundless field of relation and transformation. A t4t praxis is embraced out of necessity. This is a place where transness can move, breathe, take on colours and textures, find proximity, and illuminate new (impossible) pathways.