{"id":28075,"date":"2025-05-02T15:14:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/?p=28075"},"modified":"2025-06-08T17:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:43:18","slug":"spark-series-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/en\/spark-series-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"SPARK Series 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.244), 16px);\"><strong>May 26 to 29, 2025<br>2:00 to 4:00 pm<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Free<\/strong> by reservation at <a href=\"mailto:adj_direction@astudio303.ca\">adj_direction@studio303.ca<\/a><br><br>The SPARK Series is an initiative that connects artists affiliated with Studio 303 with presenters. Through informal private presentations followed by discussion time, these meetings aim to be personal and refreshing. The featured artists are selected from the current and past cohorts of artists-in-residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Although showings are for presenters only, SPARK Series also hosts&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/en\/performative-discussion-spark-series-24-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Performative Discussion<\/a><\/strong>, a public event that provides space for dialog on a chosen theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28115\" style=\"width:932px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-1.png 800w, https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-1-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-1-768x192.png 768w, https:\/\/www.studio303.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6-1-100x25.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Natsumi Sophia Bellali \u00a9<\/strong>&nbsp;Mari-\u00c8ve Dion<br><strong>Emile Pineault &amp; Baco Lepage Acosta \u00a9<\/strong>&nbsp;Marc-Olivier Hamelin<br><strong>Alex \u2018Bunny\u2019 Turcotte, Martine \u2018\u00c9clipse\u2019 Castera, Flame, Maude \u2018M\u00f8\u00f8dz\u2019 Beaulieu, Audrey \u2018Odd\u2019 Sargent \u00a9<\/strong>&nbsp;Mare-\u00c8ve Dion<br><strong>Lucy M. May \u00a9<\/strong>&nbsp;Anna Semenova Kozak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.244), 16px);\">\n<figure style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\" class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-white-color has-blush-light-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Monday, May 26<\/strong><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2:00 PM to 4:00 PM<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#db3589\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Performative Discussion (Spark Series)<\/strong><\/mark><br>Supporting Palestine: PACBI and other initiatives- <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free<\/span><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In english or french, depending on participants<\/span><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome to all<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-613714a36a2794b1303ca86879c629b7 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><b>Project Description \u2192<\/b><\/summary>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the current context of genocide in Palestine and vivid discussions around artistic practices that benefit the State of Israel, several organizations (including Studio 303) have joined PACBI and the boycott of artistic and cultural products from the State of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\">This performative discussion will be a space for dialogue around these initiatives. We will explore the why and the how. We will discuss how they apply within our local contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Performative Discussions do not include a designated moderator. The format is modeled on Lois Weavers\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.split-britches.com\/long-table\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long Table<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where participants may:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\">&#8211;&nbsp;Join the table to contribute to the conversation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\">&#8211;&nbsp; Choose to sit in the outer ring as an observer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPARK series takes place during the FTA\/OFFTA, taking advantage of the large number of presenters already in town. Our goal is to get Studio 303\u2019s associated artists known by them and to&nbsp; facilitate different moments of exchange where relational rather than transactional aspects are favored.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\" class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-white-color has-blush-light-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Tuesday, May 27<\/strong><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2:00 PM to 4:00 PM<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #db3589;\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Ivanie Aubin-Malo<\/mark><\/strong> <strong><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #db3589;\" class=\"has-inline-color\">|<\/mark><\/strong> <mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #db3589;\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong><em>Wahsipekuk : <b>Beyond the Mountains<\/b><\/em><\/strong><\/mark><br><br><em>Wahsipekuk: Beyond the Mountains<\/em> is a <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">captivating performance accompagnied by&nbsp;violinist <\/span><b>Julian Rice<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Mi\u2019kmaq and Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka). This creation takes us on a fascinating journey through the oral, sung, and danced traditions of the Wabanakiak peoples.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bd4c8951f1dd1276a9d704ff3f7d507a is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><b>Project Description \u2192<\/b><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wahsipekuk: Beyond the Mountains<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a leap into the invisible realm of dreams. An attempt to reconnect and carry on the transmission of ancestral knowledge. This project, co-initiated by Ivanie Aubin-Malo and <\/span><b>Natasha Kanap\u00e9 Fontaine<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2020, invites the public to an experience where past and present meet in a vibrant celebration.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bfd8ee8c69f76e3c934e3bf1b272bd18 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><strong>Biography \u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><b>Ivanie Aubin-Malo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a Wolastoq and Qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise choreographer, performer, and curator, and the recipient of the Montreal Dance Award in the \u201cRevelation\u201d category in 2023. In 2024, Ivanie premiered <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wahsipekuk: Beyond the Mountains<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the Agora de la danse. Since 2020, she has also founded and coordinated the event series of the MAQAHATINE collective, bringing together aboriginal movement artists to facilitate the sharing of cultural and technical knowledge, and then to spark distinct collaborations. She also contributes to the development of recurring events such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OHAKWARONT<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikak Tagocniok<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Based in L&#8217;Islet (QC) in the Wolastokuk, Ivanie is involved in wolastoqiyik atonikek, a Wolastoqey cultural center project in the region to allow members to reconnect with their community through cultural and artistic events. Thanks to the EKOTE: Spotlight on Aboriginal Scenes program, Ivanie is currently working with seven performers from the Wabanaki confederacy on a tour scheduled for 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #db3589;\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Lucy M. May <\/mark><\/strong><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #db3589;\" class=\"has-inline-color\">| <strong><em>The Conditions<\/em><\/strong><\/mark><br><br>Part live performance, part visual arts exhibition, <em>The Conditions <\/em>(excerpt-adaptation for three performers<em>)<\/em><br>speaks to the dissonance and wonder of being alive in the so-called Anthropocene. Can feeling be a way of knowing?<span id=\"docs-internal-guid-adec73c1-7fff-a61d-2c5d-b0eef6663e92\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-293a880382cac1462f8fdf4b3b336ae3 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><b>Project Description \u2192<\/b><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\">This site-sensitive work embraces art gallery conventions while leveraging their inherent tension. Temples for seeing and sensing, museums invite visitors to feel their interrelation with the world, yet use climate control and security measures to prevent the outside from leaking in. Lucy M. May\u2019s desire for an embodied and spiritual connection to their homeland in Wolastokuk as a white settler germinated this sprawling work. Animated by an intimate and urgent need to be affected by the living world, <em>The Conditions<\/em> evokes real and imagined landscapes and unmasks the anarchic alchemy of improvisation.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3980b162893bb09309df91316eee60d1 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><strong>Biography \u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><strong>Lucy M. May<\/strong> (she\/they) is a dance artist born in Eqpahak\/Wolastokuk (Fredericton) and based in Tiohti\u00e1:ke\/Mooniyang\/Montr\u00e9al since 2003. Her choreographic projects, presented across Canada, explore the materiality of human attention and our relationships to place and to each other. Improvisation resides at the heart of their work as a dancer, maker, and teacher, nourished by experiences performing in Contemporary companies, in CHSLDs, and practicing Krump since 2016. She battles under the aka Pluto. Their studies in Contemporary dance were completed at l\u2019\u00c9cole de danse contemporaine de Montr\u00e9al and CODARTS | Rotterdamse Dansacademie. Moonlighting as an illustrator, Lu explores links between dance and drawing practices.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\" class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-white-color has-blush-light-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Wednesday, May 28<br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2:00 PM to 4:00 PM<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\">\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><mark style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #db3589;\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Gabriela Jovian-Mazon<\/mark><strong><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #db3589;\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> | <\/mark><\/strong><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #db3589;\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong><em>Find your light<\/em> <\/strong><\/mark><br><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the intrigue of the whodunit board game Clue and the extravagance of a Broadway musical, <em>FIND YOUR LIGHT<\/em> playfully reveals the themes of self-expression, community and visibility while sharing the origins of the powerful dance Punking (also known as whacking and waacking).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ef40915b787f21184bb144ec7efa65ed is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><b>Project Description \u2192<\/b><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Draped over a couch, in the spotlight, a dancer mouths: \u201cI\u2019m ready for my close-up!\u201d&nbsp; Set to the audio of a 1950s film, she\u2019s one of five colourfully-clad performers moving to the DJ&#8217;s voice, reciting text from a movie script. The dancers\u2019 gestures are extravagant, circular and rapid-fire quick. Set against an old Hollywood theatrical vibe, they are poised, yet flamboyant and navigate through an underlying tension that drives the work\u2019s momentum. With the intrigue of the whodunit board game Clue and the extravagance of a Broadway musical, <em>FIND YOUR LIGHT<\/em> playfully reveals the themes of self-expression, community and visibility while sharing the origins of the powerful dance Punking (also known as whacking and waacking).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-abe65a9304a1cfac57906d7600cd8acc is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><strong>Biography \u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Gabriela Jovian-Mazon<\/strong>, alias Ell\u00e9gance, is a playful, theatrical, and character-based movement artist driven by discovery, collectivity and authenticity. Her training includes Mexican folkloric dancing, a bachelors in civil engineering and experience as a puppeteer. She has danced for the &#8216;Scooby-Doo and The Lost City of Gold&#8217; musical, \u201cMichel!\u201d a physical comedy show, and with contemporary companies Ample Man Danse and Asymmetry Creations. She has presented work for Ville de Montr\u00e9al, Fringe Festival, Vue sur La Rel\u00e8ve, Art-Fulness Whacking Festival and Festival de Danse Contemporaine de Sherbrooke. Currently, her movement is most inspired by Punking dance, authentic jazz dance, miming and puppeteering. Punking has brought her to battle and learn in Los Angeles, Mexico, Italy and Greece as well as teaching beginner classes in Montreal. In her eccentric work, she creates characters by defining their gestures, ways of moving and intentions that create texture. She believes that by sharing true stories, our lived experiences and culture, we can create a more resilient community.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\">\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #db3589;\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Mara Dupas | <em>Olympia 2.0<\/em><\/mark><\/strong><br><br>Exploring a fluid and undulating movement, the solo <em>Olympia 2.0<\/em> is inspired by Manet\u2019s famous painting of the same name, and more specifically the character portrayed by Laure, a black model whose last name remains unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dec44f666ec1f07f1852fd32820d9af2 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><b>Project Description \u2192<\/b><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\">The piece focuses on two elements of the body: the back and the hair. Between shadow and light, the artist oscillates between postures and characters, in order to reclaim her body and sensuality through gesture and imagination. Primarily performed from the back and with partial nudity, the piece creates tension around the audience&#8217;s expectations of what is revealed and what the performer chooses to conceal. By refusing to reveal her face directly, She attempts to slip away, while allowing observers the possibility of discovering her, in part, through a mirror. This work is part of a series of reflections on the relationship with the colonized body, and explores notions of exoticism and fantasy through the subversion of the gaze.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4c93b0d29d7ed266fa190bc07354fd1d is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><strong>Biography \u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><b>Mara Dupas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a dance artist developing a writing practice in Montreal. She collaborates with other creators as a performer, while developing her own choreographic practice. From 2021 to 2025, she created the solos <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olympia 2.0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">D\u00e9pi temps<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (presented in Montreal by Tangente Danse and on tour across Quebec in Victoriaville, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, and Gasp\u00e9). Her piece <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FANM<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was presented at the Ph\u00e9nom\u00e9na Festival and OFFTA, and her writing practice has led her to publish a number of texts, notably in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zinc<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> magazine. She is fond of archives and mysteries. Navigating between words and gesture, her works explore Afro-descendant and queer experiences, and draw on themes linked to popular culture, family memory and nostalgia.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #db3589;\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Natsumi Sophia Bellali | <\/strong><em><strong>Salam Tata<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/em><\/mark><br><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does it mean to be the child of immigrants in Montreal? Created and performed by <\/span><b>Natsumi Sophia Bellali<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salam Tata<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explores this complex identity through a 38-minute dance-theater solo. Of Japanese and Moroccan descent and born in Montreal, Bellali weaves an intimate narrative where cultural heritages and contemporary realities intersect.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b4a9dbe2515f96ad781e7048ad239434 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><strong><b>Project Description <\/b>\u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><em>Salam Tata<\/em> parallels the expectations of her family back in Morocco with the daily challenges she &#8211; and so many other Montreal-born children of immigrants &#8211; face. Inspired by her personal experiences, the work addresses themes such as religious practice, beauty standards, marriage and femininity, through telephone conversations with her Moroccan aunt.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-39d50003f5f00f5cb4e08c94eb015223 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><strong>Biography \u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Natsumi Sophia Bellali<\/strong> was born to a Japanese mother and a Moroccan father, and grew up in Montreal. She graduated from The Ailey School in New York (2017). She is a founding member of MICHIYAYA Dance. She deepened her artistic voice during the creation of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calling: a dance with faith<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with Ping Chong + Company, presented as part of the LaMaMa Moves! Dance Festival.&nbsp;<\/span><br><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her works <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salam Tata<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was presented at the Sherbrooke Contemporary Dance Festival, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watashi(tachi)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, benefited from a residency at the Dance Centre in Vancouver. Bellali is also assistant choreographer for the immersive project <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We Fancy of Virgin Voyages<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, currently touring around the world. She was part of the ensemble for the musical TOOTSIE at Espace Saint-Denis and is currently working on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La Trilogie des dragons <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with Ex Machina \/ Robert Lepage, as well as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Entre nous sommes pris entre nous<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Marilyn Daoust and Gabriel L\u00e9ger-Savard.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\" class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-white-color has-blush-light-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Thursday, May 29<\/strong><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2:00 PM to 4:00 PM<\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #db3589;\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Ellen Furey and Hanako Hoshimi-Caines | <\/strong><br><strong><em>Chopped Up Mountain<\/em><\/strong><\/mark><br><br><em>Chopped Up Mountain<\/em> is a new work co-created by Ellen Furey and Hanako Hoshimi-Caines that explores questions of belonging through myth, autobiographical fiction, diasporic identity and counter-colonial processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-339eb6bbecd13aaa1f88cc6a5c5789cd is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><strong><b>Project Description <\/b>\u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Together, they are developing two distinct but interconnected solos, created in tandem with a shared production team. For Ellen, this work involves learning to play the bagpipes and embodying various family personae and historical icons from the Cape Breton island (i.e. Rita MacNeil, chorals of coal miners, the voice of the atlantic ocean, the collective depression and resilience of the chronically unemployed). Hanako revisits Eastern philosophies&#8217; animistic and non-dualistic traditions, such as Japanese lore like Tsukumogami\u2014objects that gain a soul and self-awareness after a century of service\u2014and Yokai, personifications of supernatural or unexplainable phenomena, as a way of engaging with techniques of resistance and transformation through a cultural and mythological lens. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cf7eb036f571f72666e41e7faab2d6bf is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><strong>Biography Hanako Hoshimi-Caines \u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><b>Hanako Hoshimi-Caines<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a performing artist working at the intersections of choreography, dramaturgy, curation, installation and community practice. Her works unfold across a range of formats\u2014from stage to gallery to local community spaces\u2014blending high and low-fi aesthetics that draw equally from the structured formalism of art and the stuff of lived experience. Her career as a dancer includes collaborations with both independent artists and major companies, such as Sweden\u2019s Cullberg Ballet and artists Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson (Make Banana Cry). Hanako\u2019s solo work has been featured at MAI, OFFTA, Leonard &amp; Bina Ellen Gallery, and Galerie de l\u2019UQAM. Radio III, an internationally co-authored dance work with Zo\u00eb Poluch (SE) and Elisa Harkins (US) premiered at the MAI and has since toured to Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States with a Canadian tour slated for 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b5b0c880f03c6770deb3319d64388270 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14.642px, 0.915rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.897), 22px);\"><summary><strong>Biography Ellen Furey \u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><b>Ellen Furey <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is an experimental dance artist in Tiohti\u00e1:ke\/Mooniyang\/Montr\u00e9al. Since 2012, she\u2019s worked on collaborative and interdisciplinary processes that insist on a mess of subjectivities, often through explicit co-authorship. Her creations use virtuosity, spectacle and nonsense narratives to create surprising trajectories that include elements of song, bad theatre, scored movement, sacred approximation, disgust, play and solemnity. Her work has been presented in Europe, Canada, in the USA and the UK.&nbsp;<\/span><br><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ellen&#8217;s artistic work also extends to emergent caring fields as a death doula and psychic. A graduate student at Queen\u2019s University, she studies the place of spirituality and para materialities in critical theory and art practice. She has been a leadership consultant at Danse-Cit\u00e9 since 2022 and <\/span><b>is originally from Unama\u2019ki-Cape Breton, Mi&#8217;kmaq territory.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.244), 16px);\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ellen&#8217;s artistic work also extends to emergent caring fields as a death doula and psychic. A graduate student at Queen\u2019s University, she studies the place of spirituality and para materialities in critical theory and art practice. She has been a leadership consultant at Danse-Cit\u00e9 since 2022 and <\/span><b>is originally from Unama\u2019ki-Cape Breton, Mi&#8217;kmaq territory.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #db3589;\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Emile Pineault &amp; Baco Lepage Acosta | <em>Bottommost<\/em><\/mark><\/strong><br><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><em>Bottommost<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Emile and Baco approach vulnerability as a playground, where failure becomes a raw material for raucous performances of pleasure and paradox.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-50022dcedd4773a101e13b6598373f45 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><strong><b>Project Description <\/b>\u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Bottommost<\/em> finds value at the bottom of the barrel. Sinking into fragility and decline, they dig a choreographic hole where degradation leads to learning and emancipation. With its rough companionship and a tenderness beneath its claws; where love hides in the dirt, and in submission, the figure of the dog guides this brutal dance of intimate friendship. In a back-and-forth between desire and failure, instinct and listening, they reframe what it means to hit rock bottom; not trapped under collapsed expectations, but as invitation to open outwards and inhabit these seemingly sordid depths.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d9ba19e986b21deeb5871981bb2bcd10 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><strong>Biography Emile Pineault \u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Emile Pineault<\/strong> is a choreographer, performer, and curator based in Tiohti\u00e1:ke \/ Mooniyang \/ Montreal. Through a practice that intersects performance, experimental dance, writing, and sculpture, he explores states of vulnerability, humiliation, and shame as powerful vectors for change and emancipation. His undisciplined and intestinal choreography merges intense textures, exacerbated physicalities and deep sensuality. His work has been presented at venues and festivals such as MAI (CA), YC Festival (DK), The Rhubarb Festival (CA), Workspacebrussels \/ KaaiStudio (BE), OFFTA (CA), La Chapelle Sc\u00e8nes Contemporaines (CA), fabrik Potsdam (DE), Dansens Hus Stockholm (SE), Hiljaisuus Festivaali (FI), and New Baltic Dance (LT).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c7f5387ad9812e07b86367a15ab65edd is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><strong>Biography Baco Lepage-Acosta \u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><b>Baco Lepage-Acosta<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;s artistic and personal career is rich and eclectic. A multidisciplinary artist, both homebody and eager explorer, they enjoy blending disciplines and approaches. Based in Tio\u2019ti\u00e1:ke\/Mooniyang, they have been performing since 2021 in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dog Rising<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Clara Furey. They are also engaged in research and performance alongside Emile Pineault for his next creation, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bottommost<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2026). In addition, they are working on the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">projection<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Nien Tzu Weng&#8217;s new piece, \u300a{\u5149 (\u9670 | \u5f71) }\u4e4b\u221e\u300b\u2500\u2500<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> [gu\u0101ng y\u012bn]: the lightest dark is darker than the darkest light<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2025). At the same time, Baco is developing a solo project: an interactive installation around juggling that merges movement, technology and interaction.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #db3589;\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Gui B.B | <em>I Have Such a Horrible Voice<\/em><\/mark><\/strong><br><br>In a long spectral corporeal poem, Gui B.B<br>engages in a complex exploration of her <br>experience with debt. She delves into <br>how it is both endured and fought<br>within her own body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f0d72e8ae8e05835ba2cbfc42b1f75ec is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><b>Project Description \u2192<\/b><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\">The artist establishes a symbolic trans space where she reclaims ambiguity, uncertainty, hyper-vulnerability, and chaos. Thus, she invites us into a haunted space where she confronts the inherent precarity of her indebted life, transforming it into a vital force. Along the way, she exudes her own ghost, offering her body as a sacrifice as it fails to be more than just a system.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-658e584efe87a4ef7c6912f9f45cdb56 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><strong>Biography \u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><strong>Gui B.B<\/strong> is an artist based in Tio\u2019tia:ke\/Mooniyang (colonially known as Montreal). She primarily works in the field of experimental performance. Reflecting on performance as a world-building practice, Gui B.B deploys undisciplined performative statements where theatricality, irony, and voice emerge as key materials. By engaging in various forms of kinships while exploring a reclaiming dramaturgy of the body, her process brings forth new constellations, potential reconfigurations of dominant narratives. In a profusion of gesture-objects, she creates spaces where the audience can experience nonsense, an eruption of alterations to normative identifications. It is within baroque spaces that she imagines playful \u201ctrans-fictions\u201d, poetic narratives where a dissident mythology is crafted. In her work, she self-explores the medium of performance, examining its potentials for impostures and healing.<br><\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #db3589;\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Kama La Mackerel | <em>\/\/ ZOM-FAM \/\/ MON CORPS \/\/ THE OCEAN \/\/<\/em><\/mark><\/strong><br><br><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>\/\/ ZOM-FAM \/\/ MON CORPS \/\/ THE OCEAN \/\/<\/em> is a multilingual, interdisciplinary and immersive work that unfolds across two connected spaces \u2014 a gallery and a black box theatre \u2014 forming a scenographic archipelago where installations, videos, textiles, soundscapes, voice and performance coexist in a sensorial journey shaped like a constellation.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b259cca79fde10dc3c52d2a96f96cd58 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><strong><b>Project Description <\/b>\u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\">The audience is invited into a slow, embodied experience woven from textile materials, video mapping, projections, Creole soundscapes and objects of remembrance. Creole moves as breath, rhythm, and poetic substance, in close interplay with French and English. The piece draws from fragmented narratives, physical gestures, dance, imagery, and the shifting presence of the body.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8f6b1380fce0a33c53d468ffa51b3e9f is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" style=\"color:#69a84f;font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><summary><strong>Biography \u2192<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/lamackerel.net\/\">Kama La Mackerel<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a multilingual writer, visual artist, performer, educator, and literary translator, deeply committed to love, justice, and individual and collective empowerment. Their practice blurs the boundaries of traditional artistic disciplines to create aesthetic spaces where decolonial and queer\/trans vocabularies can emerge.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.732), 20px);\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in Mauritius and based in Tio\u2019tia:ke\/Montreal, Kama works across Mauritian Creole, French, and English, exploring trans spiritualities, island memory, decolonial cosmogonies, and narratives from the Global South. Their work has been presented in galleries, theatres, performance venues, and universities across Quebec and Canada, as well as in Paris, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Johannesburg.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br>Kama is the author of <i>ZOM-FAM<\/i> (Metonymy Press, 2020), a poetry collection that received critical acclaim and was a finalist for several literary awards, and <i>Indrazaal et la qu\u00eate de l\u2019oc\u00e9an<\/i> (\u00c9ditions KATA, 2023), a children\u2019s book about island ecologies. 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