Type de fiche: Artist

jacqueline van de geer

Jacqueline van de Geer was born in the Netherlands and immigrated to Canada in 2005. She holds degrees in both visual and performance arts. Growing up in Rotterdam, a scarred place that was accidentally bombed twice during World War II, imparted her with a ‘do a lot with almost nothing’-approach to her practice. She works in Europe and Canada as a performer and theatrical DJ. Since coming to Montréal, Jacqueline has started to write short plays and create solo works that are bilingual, non-linear, and somewhat dada-inspired. In her performances she hopes to create a space where participants can open up to a collective experience: to share, to exchange, to be touched, and to speak out. Her work focuses on issues of intimacy and reconnection.

Image: Julie Laurin

citlali trevino

Born in Mexico, Citlali Trevino grew up in France where she studied jazz, ballet and contemporary dance, as well as dance education. She began her carrier as a dancer working with various young choreographers (Aragorn Boulanger, Thierry Verger, Alexandra Lemoine). In 2013 Citlali returned to the Americas, settling in Montréal where she was first introduced to theatre arts working with the indigenous theatre company Ondinnok. Eager to continue learning, she participated in acrobatic and theatre workshops with Dynamo theatre. Citlali is currently developing her own artistic approach and projects, most notably through the creation of a dance-theatre solo, À l’Aube de l’Amertume.

adrián morillo

Adrián Morillo is a photographer and videographer based in Montréal. He spent much of his professional career in Spain, working in photography and film production, allowing him to cultivate a unique and personal style focused on the creation of stunning imagery. His desire to grow as a professional photographer led him to Montréal, where he is developing new projects.

kym dominique-ferguson

Kym Dominique–Ferguson is a poet by birth, a theatre performer by training, and a producer by nurture. For over a decade he has serenaded Montreal and international audiences with his blending of spoken word poetry and theatre. He successfully produced and performed his first one man show to a sold-out audience back in August of 2015: The Born Jamhaitianadian. Ferguson is also a radio show host on Soul Perspectives for the past 6 years which talks about the issues affecting the Black community here in Montreal, across Canada and internationally.   He is currently in development his first theatre play: The #DearBlackMan Project, officially commissioned by Black Theatre Workshop.

luca patuelli

Over the past 12 years Luca Patuelli (aka LazyLegz) has developed a unique breakdancing style focused on his upper body strength, fluidity, and innovative crutch-work. His career as a professional dancer has led him to perform in a wide variety of international dance events, including Breakin’ Convention, Freestyle Session, IBE, R16, Circle Prinz, World of Dance and Hip Hop International. In addition to his work with the international Bboy crew ILL-Abilities, LazyLegz has in recent years made new work in collaboration with Roya Hosini (aka Roya the Destroya), as the duo RoyaLaziness. Fast on the heels of their 2017 short Creatures, presented in short form at 100Lux (Montreal) and Breakin’ Convention (Toronto), the duo is currently developing its first full-length creation, mixing modern choreography, props, and breaking traditions.

ligia borges

Ligia Borges is a director, actor, teacher, and researcher as well as co-founder of the Brazilian collective Teatro da Travessia, with which she has been involved as an actor, assistant director, and/or dramaturge since 2006. Universal subjects, such as family relationships, love, sickness, and the obstacles of daily living are recurrent themes in her work. Fragments d’Ana, Borges’ current theatre project, is centred on the social effects of Alzheimer’s disease. In addition to bridging the worlds of storytelling and theatre, Fragments d’Ana adopts a dramaturgical approach that integrates the stories of people living with Alzheimers and those of their caregivers. Fragments d’Ana is conceived for a non-conventional venue and will emphasize the encounter between the public and actors.

katey wattam

Katey Wattam is a recent graduate of McGill University’s Drama and Theatre program and has worked on over 20 theatrical productions and films. An interdisciplinary artist of mixed settler and Anishinaabe ancestry, Wattam approaches theatre as a way of mining her and other bodies for their “blood memory,” uncovering experiences and traumas (past and present) for the purpose of reclaiming and decolonizing bodies, minds, and spaces. In 2017-2018 Wattam prepared a staging of Quebecois queer indigenous self-taught artist, creator and writer Jovette Marchessault’s one-woman show, Night Cows. Deep, lyrical, sensuous, fabulous – Marchessault’s voice becomes, in Wattam’s hands, an ecstatic force, one that turns conventional images of women inside out and opens onto a feminist vision of the future.

ellise barbara

Ellise Barbara is a Montreal-based avant-garde artist, singer-songwriter, and thinker. Rising from artist-run spaces such as La Brique and Drones Club at the turn of the current decade, their recent efforts are centered around LGBTQ community organizing (Taking What We Need, ASTTeQ, African Rainbow). With a band called Elle’s Black Space and a lineup solely made of musicians of Sub-Saharan African descent, Barbara aims to recenter contemporary blackness by rejecting current racialized tropes.

be heintzman hope

Be Heintzman Hope is a facilitation-artist, vocalist, dancer, and performer based in Tio’tia:ke, commonly known as Montreal. They are a descendant of the first Chinese immigrants to arrive in so-called ‘Canada’ and hold German and Scottish blood as part of their ancestry and inherited occupancy of Indigenous land. From 2013-2015 they performed in the collaborative duo Psych-Ich Lie. This project strung together electronic music through dream-like narrative, holding space for healing articulated through confrontational dance performance, and wrestling tactics. Over the past five years, they have developed a movement and voice pedagogy under the name Womb Cxre- an “ephemeral institution” that prioritizes the needs of queer, trans, racialized bodies and sex workers.

hadi jamali

Hadi Jamali is an Iranian-born visual artist currently based in Montréal. Since 2003, Hadi has produced single-channel videos, photographic series, mixed-media works, and interactive installations. His most recent work uses spatialized sound and moving images to examine the link between dominant visual traditions and varying registers of contemporary (dis)location: not only geographic, but also cognitive, temporal and moral.