retreat 2024

Choreographer, performer, educator, writer Kimberly Bartosik creates viscerally provocative, ferociously intimate choreographic projects that dramatically illuminate the ephemeral nature of performance while critically, tenderly, and violently etching away at deeply distressing threads of our society. Kimberly’s work has been commissioned and presented by BAM Next Wave Festival, New York Live Arts, FIAF’s Crossing the Line […]

Rebelling against the current Iranian regime’s prohibitions of all forms of art, Nasim Lootij left Iran in 2006 to settle in France. In Paris, she studied dance at the Université Paris 8, the RIDC and the CNSMDP, collaborated with French choreographers and created Lalaï (2012) and Bouyé Jouyé Mouliân (2015). Settled in Montreal in 2016, she founded the