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Choreographic workshops 2025
December 8 to 12, 2025
© crédit photo: Montréal Danse
Choreographic research workshops
Four choreographers/collectives were selected to participate in an intensive week of research, discussion, and choreographic work from December 8 to 12, 2025. Acting as facilitators, two experts in the creative process will bring a wide range of experience to the choreographers:
- Kathy Casey – artistic director of Montréal Danse, has helped and advised numerous choreographers over the past 20 years;
- Thea Patterson — choreographer, performer, and dramaturg, she explores expanded choreographic methods, with a focus on solo form and the presence of objects in performance.
Discover the selected choreographers and their associated performers:
- Camille Lacelle Wilsey with Louise Michel Jackson and Elinor Fueter
- Dominique Sophie Sarrazin with Alanna Kraaijeveld and Rweg Dantiste
- Justin De Luna with Alyssa Favero and Fran Chudnoff
- Michael Martini avec Rachel Harris et Peter Trosztmer
Conferences
December 8–11, at Studio 303, 372 Sainte-Catherine St. W, Montreal
To attend the conferences, please reserve your spot by clicking here.
December 8
“Call and response,” rebound, echo, and variation.
As a collaborative duo, we have developed a creative methodology based on the principles of call and response, rebound, echo and variation. A sculpture inspires a choreography, which becomes a video work, which in turn can inspire a new sculpture, photograph or drawing. A similar cycle of transformation fuels the multiple strands of our practice: objects intended for exhibition, but also video, performance, and education/public engagement. Starting separately, these strands touch and intersect. As one project develops, it intertwines with another, then the next, giving rise to a branching out of new works and ideas.
This practice continues in our new work FRAGILE APPARITIONS – variations in 3 songs, a multidisciplinary performance co-produced by Montréal Danse and premiering at Théâtre La Chapelle in February 2026.
December 9
Material Stargazer: bridging community work and experimental art
Last year, myself and an intergenerational group of five artists and community workers between the ages of 21 and 88 carried out a project called Material Stargazer, a performative installation developed with community centers and theatres across Montreal. The idea is that in each location, the group welcomes locals into a multidisciplinary, participant-led creative process culminating in an exhibit and performances. Collaboratively, the project’s aesthetics and goals are designed around local community dynamics, testing boundaries of authorship, creative practice and activism. What happens when we bring the theater to the community center or when we bring the neighborhood into the theater?
In seeking and learning more about the project’s artistic ancestors and lineages, I have found myself in a field called art as social practice: an interdisciplinary field of research and practice that reaches into external disciplines like labor studies, public architecture and political organizing, etc. to bring about real-world instances of transformation and community building. The spectrum of radical questions that emerge here are ever fascinating, ones I would like to discuss with you.
December 10
Viizion krump
7Starr will present the history of krump culture while sharing his journey as a pillar of krump in Canada. He will discuss the evolution of his practice and street dance culture in the Quebec and Canadian artistic ecosystem, as well as the importance of continuing to challenge various mindsets regarding this culture.
December 11
Last night I dreamt so strangely
This lecture is a writing of the moment, the live that scratches, hesitates, affirms, then retraces its steps. It is the search for a common thread that connects the fragments of a quest that I call “choreographic,” for lack of a better term. It is my disappointed desire to find a branch to rest on, a restlessness, a decoy, an abstract drift.