retreat 2024

Sébastien Provencher holds a bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance from the Université du Québec à Montréal, and is a choreographer based in Montreal. Since 2020, he has been a member of Lorganisme, a structure for choreographers, and is also co-artistic director of the FURIES festival presented in Marsoui, Gaspésie.

Curious to investigate human behaviour from different perspectives, Heidi Strauss creates performance work to consider the ‘realness’ of where and who we are – often responding to the current social and environmental moment. In playing with how performance is seen/experienced, she creates post-immersive, installation, ambulatory, and site-sensitive works for theatre, non-theatre and digital environments, reconfiguring

Naishi Wang, a Toronto-based contemporary dance artist born in Changchun, China, embraces his diverse cultural heritage of Chinese, North Korean, and Mongolian ancestry. Renowned for his exceptional improvisations and profound insights into the body’s motivations, Wang also translates his artistic vision onto paper, creating dances through drawings. With acclaimed solos like “Taking Breath” and collaborative