Residency

Marie-Anne Rahimi – Portrait of a horse

Jul. 04 ⇾ Aug. 14 2026 (Saturday – Friday)

Regular Residencies

Biography

Based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Marie-Anne Rahimi, emerging queer artist, from Peruvian and Iranian origins practices interdisciplinary performing arts. Her movement roots itself through somatic and body states research, improvisation, writing and voice work.

Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in dance, art practices, at UQAM (2025), she’s marked by the choreographic projects of Amélie Rajotte, Caroline Laurin-Beaucage & Helen Simard, and by the teachings of Danièle Desnoyers, Brianna Lombardo, Kelly Keenan, Louise Michel Jackson & Zoey Gauld. She co-choreograph and dance Petite hypoxie (2023) and Micro micro micro (2024), as well as performing in Mirage corporatif X COWORKER (2025), Cartographie d’une friche (2025), Ma dernière exposition (2025), Qui de nous (2024), Groove Ether (2024) and Chuchotement du sang (2024). She actively collaborates with artists in literature, scenography and theater.

Project Details

Portrait of a horse is an interdisciplinary solo performance to become. It brings up an intimate ambiguity surrounding being the sum of political refugees – a confused child. This choreographic reflection in residency invites to rediscover hope and courage in the face of political climates of war and dictatorship; it invites movement, it invites agency;

through the rewriting of generational trauma,
through the grandiose imagination of children,
through dialogue with a father figure,
through the poetry of the Beat Generation,

Here lies the first sketch of a horse takes shape.