Mithra Myth Rabel + Rozenn Lecomte & Ariane Levasseur

Mithra Myth Rabel is a performer, choreographer and teacher recognized within Montréal’s street dance scene, particularly as a leading figure in house dance. Drawing inspiration from key figures of the discipline, she develops a style that is both graceful and innovative, while sharing her passion through teaching. In 2022, she created ODE, a 10-minute piece exploring the connections between time, memory and identity praised for its sensitivity and elegance. In 2024, she presented Speakeasy, another 10-minute work, as part of Soirées 100Lux at Tangente and further developed it during the 2024 B-Side research lab, produced by Ebnfloh and Agora de la danse. A multidisciplinary artist, Myth has performed across Canada and internationally, also contributing to music videos and documentaries. She combines creation and teaching with passion and dedication.

Sam I Am Montolla started dancing at the tender age of 5, and her love of music has brought her to singing and songwriting. Through dance, she has traveled internationally for hip hop and waacking. Being one of the first Canadian waackers and teachers of the style, she is known as Princess Shayla in the crew The Chapter. Soul, R&B, hip hop and funk are where she likes to play, not forgetting her Caribbean heritage. She has been on the Palmares Adisq Radio Campus list and was a featured artist at CMW 2021 for her music. She continues to mentor in street dance; as a sound healer, she incorporates her knowledge of sound. For 2022, she will be featured in Sovann Rochon-Prom Tep’s Sam & Angèle and is now part of Centre Création O Vertigo (CCOV) as artistic curator for 2023-2026.

Jason “Blackbird” Selman is a Montréal-born poet, trumpet player, and community worker. He is the author The Freedom I Stole (2007, Cumulus Press), Africa As A Dream That Travels Through My Heart (2016, Howl) and co-editor of the poetry anthology Talking Book (2006, Cumulus Press), which chronicles the writings of Kalm Unity Vibe Collective (of which he is a founding member). He works as a teaching artist, conducting poetry workshops in schools across the Montréal area and beyond. His work is grounded in the themes of ethno-musicology, surrealist expression, love, and the intersection of masculinity and emotional vulnerability.

My creative process is shaped by a continuous flow of ideas, encounters, reflections and shared moments, both spoken and danced. I give space to this flow to evolve freely, feeding it with new and unexpected experiences.

Speakeasy was created through a freestyle approach, inspired by music ranging from jazz to hip hop, and deeply influenced by poetry. I wanted each movement to carry the weight and presence of cultural memory.

This journey led me to explore the body’s ability to hold and transmit stories, personal and collective. We worked with rhythm, energy and space to shape a physical language that connects where we come from with where we’re going.

Speakeasy is the result of a living and evolving process where each moment becomes an honest and intentional act rooted in a continuous search for meaning and authenticity.

Rozenn Lecomte is a Québec-based choreographer and graduate of UQAM whose work explores rebellious bodies. She is drawn to the friction in our attachments, the banal gestures and the tensions of daily life, which she approaches as sensitive landscapes where softness and roughness coexist. In 2023, she created Le recueillement des tendres, a piece for five performers presented in Montréal and Québec City, followed by La politique des regrets (2024), a self-produced work for eight performers in her apartment. Her solo No man’s land was presented at Centre Phi the same year. Since 2022, she has formed a duo with Ariane Levasseur, with whom she co-created this is not moving, presented at Tangente. Rozenn also hosts Fil conducteur, a podcast on the issues shaping contemporary dance. She is currently developing a new group piece, continuing her collective and political artistic approach.

Based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, Ariane Levasseur uses the body as her primary artistic vehicle. She trained at UQAM, completing a bachelor’s degree in dance, and was awarded the William-Douglas Prize in 2022. In 2021, she takes part in Habiter nos mémoires, a project by Caroline Laurin-Beaucage, a collaboration she renews for a new creation in 2025. In 2023, the piece this is not moving, co-created with Rozenn Lecomte, is presented at Danses Buissonnières (Tangente). In 2024, she joins Catherine Gaudet’s company for the piece ODE. In 2025, she performs in Soulèvement, the latest work by Le Carré des Lombes (Danièle Desnoyers). As a performer-creator, she continues to explore resistance, the poetics of dissent and fragments of intimacy through movement across various performative contexts.

Estelle Schorpp is a French-born and Montréal-based sound artist and composer. Her multidisciplinary sonic practice has explored algorithmic composition, sound installation, interactive systems and experimental electronic music. In 2024, her first album, In My Ears (for Maryanne), was released on Los Angeles-based label LINE. Her work has been presented internationally at festivals such as La Biennale di Venezia (IT), Ars Electronica (AT), MUTEK (MX, CA, AR, JP), Norberg Festival (SE), Akousma (CA), FIMAV (CA), Le Mans Sonore (FR), Exhibitronic (FR, DE), and MuTeFest (FI). She also composes for dance and films.

Sophie Levasseur holds a master’s degree in dance from UQAM and works at the intersection of creation, cultural mediation, research, and teaching. After a career as a performer, she now focuses primarily on behind-the-scenes work: workshops, collective projects, choreographic sketches, and both academic and creative writing. With a strong interest in co-construction, accessibility and transmission, she weaves care, commitment and creativity into artistic, educational and sociocultural contexts. Her practice is rooted in a sensitivity-based ecology, exploring the relationships between bodies, territories and ecosystems through a collaborative and inclusive lens.

Julianna Bryson is a contemporary dance artist based in Tiohti:áke (Montréal). Their formative education at Alberta Ballet School and Victoria School of the Arts, in Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton), Alberta, fostered a rich devotion to artistry, challenge, and the capacities of the body. During their time École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, culminating in 2024, Julianna had the privilege to embody many diverse artistic landscapes, namely those of Charles Brecard, Dorotea Saykaly, Parts+Labour, Andrea Peña, Stephanie Lake, and Marie Chouinard. As an artist, Julianna is enamoured by the transformative nature of the body and its innate multiplicity. They seek to embody stories, both universal and personal, through their art, fostering a space where body and imagination collide.

In 2023, this is not moving came to life at Tangente, a cry carried by our bodies as queer women, a vibrant manifesto to reclaim the stage. We thought we had closed that chapter, but the whispers of the audience and the tremors of the world remind us that our voice remains essential. So, we chose to continue, no longer in urgency, but in the fragile softness of a shared desire. Love and partnership, these intimate and powerful landscapes weave the thread of our duet. We hope this piece will speak to the hearts of lesbo-queer communities, and to every soul who has known the beauty and complexity of loving.