LABORARE & Alanna Kraaijeveld + Marie Lévêque

We asked Marine Theunissen to tell us about the last time she danced that was memorable:

“I’m with my 5-year-old daughter in the living room. It’s late afternoon; it’s too hot outside, but it’s okay inside. She asks me to put on Janis Joplin’s ‘Move Over.’ Instantly, when the beat starts, we both start dancing. We imitate each other, throwing our arms, legs, and heads in all directions, like a groovy kung-fu. I remember the energy, the pleasure of seeing her move and repeating her movements, the fun of our bodies, and the feeling of joyful release.”

An emerging contemporary dance artist with a diverse cultural heritage, Salomé Janan moved to Québec in 2016. After graduating from École de danse de Québec in 2019, she spent several years working and creating with numerous Québec artists. Since then, she has taken on the role of performer in productions in Québec and France. She began to take an interest in cultural mediation in 2023 with her first workshop for immigrant high school students in Québec, combining dance and theatre, and then joined the organisation Danse contre la violence in 2024.

Molly Siboulet-Ryan is a dance artist based in Tio’Tia:ke (Montréal). Among the many roles she takes on in artistic processes, that of collaborative performer is by far her favourite. She’s therefore thrilled to dive into Marie’s creative world. Outside of dance, Molly does her best to keep her plants alive, navigates the chaotic waters of capitalism in her own way, and loves midnight swims.

Léo Gauthier is a self-taught contemporary dance artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, with a strong interest in inclusive dance. As a disabled artist, Léo reflects on the collaboration of atypical bodies within the dance world, and even more on the richness of movement possibilities that emerge from them. With eight years of experience as a community worker, Léo often meets people from diverse life paths, which greatly nurtures their personal practice and reflections on social realities connected to the body and the world. Léo has participated in various projects with Corpuscule Danse, notably with George-Nicolas Tremblay, as well as on an intergenerational cultural mediation project with Sarah Dell’Ava. In the coming years, they wish to further develop their floorwork practice.

Lila Geneix is a French choreographer and performer in contemporary dance based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. A graduate of UQAM (2020) and recipient of the David Kilburn Award (2022), she develops a feminist choreographic practice at the intersection of visual art, performance, and dance. A versatile artist, she navigates between different creative contexts, from traditional stage work to in situ interventions and multidisciplinary collaborations. Since arriving in Québec, she has collaborated with Sarah Dell’Ava, Emmanuel Jouthe, Katia-Marie Germain, Danièle Desnoyers, the Grand Poney company and Tamara Cubas, and has been involved in archiving several creative processes. Her first creation, Conjurer la (S)Cène (2022), is part of a triptych on the act of setting the table. In 2024, she co-authored the public artwork Éc(h)o: passage du vivant at the Panama station of the REM and is continuing her research for a new stage project.

Joy Boissiere is a non-binary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Moniang/Montréal. Her work takes place in performance, installation, exhibition, and shows. As a multidisciplinary artist, she occupied the roles of technical and artistic director, scenographer, technician, operator, and cultural coordinator. She develops her subjects or research-creation around obscenity, timidity, movement, and absurdity. Her tools are lighting, projection mapping, stage technique, and dance/performance. A graduate of the master’s in digital creation at UQAT, Joy worked for various companies, such as Ampleman Dance, La Sentinelle, les précieuses fissures, and Pleurer Dans’Douche. She also performed in festivals such as Entractes, Phénomena, Parcours Danse, and the Fair of Alternative Art in Sudbury.