Discipline: théâtre

stella lemaine

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Stella Lemaine is a Montreal-based interdisciplinary artist of Haitian descent whose practice lies at the intersection of performance, dance, and documentary film. Her work explores the body as a site of memory, resistance, and transformation. By weaving together archives, movement, and storytelling, she seeks to make visible the invisible traces of colonialism and to open spaces for collective healing.
Graduated in acting from UQAM’s Theatre Department, Stella first presented her debut documentary at the Montreal Black Film Festival. Documentary filmmaking became a medium through which she refined her gaze on intimate and political narratives. Her practice later expanded to the stage, performing in various theatre productions such as L’Ombre, directed by Marie Brassard and presented at Canada’s National Arts Centre, and to dance, through her training in Haitian folkloric dance at the Nyata Nyata Center.

Her project Corps Noirs, initiated in 2023, marks a turning point in her artistic journey: a documentary performance rooted in research on Black bodies, their invisible wounds, and their resilience. Inspired by somatic practices and decolonial thought, the work explores the possibility of rewriting memory through movement and embodied presence.

As an Afrofeminist and socially engaged artist, Stella envisions creation as an act of resistance and repair. Her work is nourished by a deep quest for humanity, a poetic relationship with reality, and a constant desire to build bridges between the personal and the political.

 

nicolas fattouh

Nicolas Fattouh is an emerging theatre artist, visual artist, and animation director who recently relocated from Monsef, Lebanon, to Montreal, Canada. He has participated in over 30 local and international art exhibitions and auctions with his paintings, sculptures, and installations, including at Bonhams (London) in 2016.

Nicolas’s love for theatre began at the age of 8 when he directed small plays with the help of his sisters and school friends, performing them for parents and neighbors in his backyard. Passionate about storytelling and drawing, he pursued his education in 2D/3D animation at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, graduating with a master’s degree (first in his class) in 2017.

In 2021, Nicolas made his theatrical debut with his first professional hybrid play, “Living with a Piece of Furniture”, which aimed to make history by helping his 95-year-old grandmother become the eldest president of the Sorority of the Immaculate Conception in her village. The play was selected in many festivals including the Zoukak Sidewalks Festival (Beirut) in December 2022 and the Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Switzerland) in August 2023.

chloé barshee

Graduated of the École supérieure de théâtre de l’UQAM in 2014, Chloé Barshee co-founded the Grande Surface collective with her classmates when she left school. She has been seen performing at the Théâtre La Chapelle, at the Théâtre du Rideau-Vert in the production Molière, Shakespeare et moi and at the Zone Homa festival.

She is the theater director of Théâtre Everest. She is the one who constructs and imagines the craziest images, the one who always pushes the limits of the possible, who always asks herself : How are we going to do this?

“With Théâtre Everest, the creative process is a return to our roots, to childhood, a great playground where anything is possible, where anything can happen, where an accident can turn into an extraordinary idea and where there are no right or wrong moves… because it’s all about creation.”