“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus, Summer, Return to Tipasa, 1952

This quote is a perfect description of the atmosphere during the creation of this new collection of 5 short films. In its own way, each one portrays an inner force that animates the human being beyond the self.

Ready-to-Wear Solos | Louise Bédard
Masks and masquerades. A quest for identity in an ascent where we remove the mask. The spiral of time that carries with it both a dream and a memory.

Éliot Laprise, Karine Ledoyen (Directors)

Choreographer and dancer Karine Ledoyen trained in Quebec City and began her career in France. Returning to the provincial capital in 2001, she launched the Osez! concept, which received critical acclaim in Quebec and internationally. She founded the Danse K par K dance company in 2005, where the quest for human fragility dominates in all its forms, developing shows like Target, Air, The Nobody, Three Landscapes, Boys Dance, Night Dance, Dancing in a Living Room and Glorious Fragility. In parallel to her career, Ledoyen has reflected on her artistic practice as part of a master’s degree at Laval University. During the pandemic, she developed Osez! Solo, a series of performances danced outside for a single spectator. The concept evolved into Ready-to-Wear Solos, where she collaborated with director Eliot Laprise to make 10 short films that are presented as projections in the hands of passers-by in the street.

Eliot Laprise is attracted to acting as much as he is to directing. Since graduating from the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Québec in 2007, he has performed in more than 20 plays on various stages in the province. He has appeared on the big screen in many roles, including the films Les Grandes Chaleurs de Sophie Lorain and Triptyque, a film directed by Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires. He was also part of the cast of Feuilles Mortes, released in 2016. His became more in demand as a director in 2011, when he was selected from among 600 candidates to take part in La course Évasion autour du monde, a documentary competition held around the world. Since 2012, he has directed short fiction and documentary films, advertising and music videos, in addition to being a video designer for the stage. In June 2017, he completed a training at L’INIS, where he wrote his first play for the stage, Je veux participer au chaos.

Éliot Laprise Director, Director of Photography
Karine Ledoyen Director, Producer
Louise Bédard Choreographer, Key Cast “Performer”
Nelly-Ève Rajotte Musical Composer
Raphaël Posadas Technician
Vano Hotton Artistic Director

Foujita Foujita is a playful look at the luxuries and hardships of Japanese French painter Léonard Foujita Tsuguharu. A man who straddled two countries, known for his absurd and iconic looks, Foujita and his vast portfolio is a treasured part of art history.

Mayumi Lashbrook (Director)

Choreographer Mayumi Lashbrook (she/her) embodies Foujita’s determination and shameless drive for notoriety. She pays homage to the painter’s heyday in Paris, France when he was living next to Modigliani and Soutine in Cité Falguière – the historic location where the film is shot. Foujita Foujita is a glimpse at a Japanese visionary building a legacy within Eurocentric standards during the interwar period of the Roaring Twenties.

Mayumi Lashbrook Director, Choreographer and Performer
Maximiliano Battaglia Cinematography and Editing
Ponita KeoAssisting Direction
Owen Moran Sound Design

Working with the traditional form of sevillanas from Lebrija, arranged and recorded by Caroline Planté, Miguel Medina, and Marcos Marín, this five-part piece is choreographed by Daniel Ramos and the Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company, and performed by Esmeralda Enrique together with our four Company dancers — Pamela Briz, Nancy Cardwell, Virginia Castro Durán, and Alison MacDonald — and directed by William Yong.

Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company Producer, Choreography
Daniel Ramos Choreography
Esmeralda Enrique Artistic Director
William Yong Director
Caroline Plante Musical Director
Alex Coleman Editor
Oliver Salathiel Director of Photography

Nahual

A nahual can be a sorcerer who transforms into an animal and a Nahual is also an animal alter ego that we all possess throughout our lives.

Likewise, this term identifies the capacity of transformation that every human possesses.

Narwhal

The narwhal, also know as a narwhale, is a medium-sized toothed whale that possesses a large “tusk”.

The narwhal is the unicorn of the sea.

It leaves year-round in the Artic waters around Greenland, Canada and Russia.

Carlos Rivera Martinez , Gerardo Montiel Klint (Directors)

Carlos Rivera Martinez is a director, choreographer, actor and a dancer, originally from Mexico City.

He graduated from the Indigenous Residency Program at National Theatre School in 2018 and recently graduated from the MFA in Directing for Theatre Program at the University of Ottawa. Carlos has worked and collaborated with several performing arts companies across Canada including Red Sky Performance (Toronto), Globe Theatre (Regina), Raven Spirit Dance (Vancouver), MT Space (Kitchener), Puente Theatre (Victoria), Ondinnok (Montreal), Lemon Tree Creations (Toronto), Electric Company (Vancouver) Micro-Scope Productions (Montreal); among others. He is continuously working on numerous artistic projects in dance, film, theatre and performance.

Gerardo Montiel Klint (Mexico City, 1968) lives and works in Mexico City. B.F.A.in Product Design and studied Photography in Mexico. He is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores, Silver Medal Beaux Arts, Mexico 2008, grant holder from the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2001and 2003. Received the 1996-1997 fellowship from the National Fund for Culture and Arts (Mexico). He won the XIII Photography Biennieal in Mexico (2008) and the XI Photography Biennial in Photography (2004). His work has been exhibited and published internationally and appears in various collections as: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), Kiyosato Museum of Photography (Japan), Guangdong Museum of Arts (China), Museum of Fine Arts MFAH, (Houston), Wittliff Collection of Southwestern & Mexican Photography (Texas), Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), 320fok Cultural Centre (Hungary), Museet for Fotokunst (Denmark), CDAN BEULAS Foundation, Huesca (Spain) and Centro de la Imagen (México) among others.

Gerardo Montiel Klint Director, Writer, Producer
Carlos Rivera Martinez Director, Writer, Producer, Key Cast

Enter a world where fantasy and dream combine with the movement of the body, where time stops until rebirth.

Alan Lake (Directors)

Alan Lake is a performer, choreographer, director and visual artist. He studied visual arts for five years (DEC and BAC in visual arts). He undertakes and obtains his technical DEC in Dance- performance in 2007 at the Quebec Dance School.

Since 2007, Alan Lake has joined the companies: Harold Rhéaume’s son, Adrien dances in NU, Jumeaux – a co-creation with the French choreographer Yvann Alexandre – and in the creation: Fluid, all as a performer. He participates in the first Grand Continental of Sylvain Émard Danse. He is an interpreter for Dana Gingras – Animal of Distinction in a video clip of Arcade Fire. It will be Adrian Rheaume’s son next work of the Rheaume White Partitions.

Alan Lake est interprète, chorégraphe, réalisateur et artiste en arts visuels. Il étudie les arts visuels pendant cinq ans (DEC et BAC en arts visuels). Il entreprend et obtient son DEC technique en Danse-interprétation en 2007 à l’École de danse de Québec. L’objectif de sont travail est de faire cohabiter ces disciplines en un lieu commun au service du mouvement.

Depuis 2007, Alan Lake joint en tant qu’interprète les compagnies : Le fils d’Adrien danse d’Harold Rhéaume dans NU, Jumeaux – une co-création avec le chorégraphe français Yvann Alexandre – et dans la création : Fluide. Il participe au premier Grand continental de la compagnie Sylvain Émard Danse. Il est interprète pour Dana Gingras – Animal of distinction dans un vidéoclip d’Arcade Fire. Il sera de la prochaine oeuvre du Fils d’Adrien danse d’harold Rhéaume Partitions Blanches.

Alan Lake Director, Writer
François Gamache Cinematographer
Antoine Berthiaume Music
Odile Amélie Peters Cast
Fabien Piché Cast
David Rancourt Cast
Esther Rousseau-Morin Cast

An 8 minute dance film inspired by the desire to create a physical representation of our inner landscape, exploring themes such as presence, transcendence, and the joy that is always within us. This film invites the viewer on their own journey into what their own subconscious human experience might entail.

Liv Arcangeli Director, Producer, Key Cast
Denzel Vasquez Cinamatography/ Colour
Yimting Ma Editor
Kristen-Innes Stambolic Animation / Creative Advisement
Sasha Speed Rehearsal Direction
Alex Glutch Music

Over time, nature wilfully and circumstantially adapts to its environment, but when the cyclical clash between evolution and cataclysm occurs, nature’s fight to reclaim its place often leaves scars that endure for many seasons. “Ashes” recounts the tale of a Heron and the 62 Lakes under his watchful eye, of the creation of these watery masses that now encompass the region of Saint-Hippolyte – a tragic tale of self-sacrifice that has become an eternal legend.

Charles-Antoine Thériault (Director)

If there’s one thing you notice when scrolling through Charles-Antoine Thériault’s repertoire of projects, it’s his strong desire to put the human being first and to let each talent that comes onto his set shine. The human being, in all his complexity, is full of nuances and the young director and screenwriter illustrates this very well in his various projects. The choice of the soundtrack for each of his projects is always made in a judicious way to allow the listener to identify/evolve with the actor(s). The concern for an impeccable aesthetic signature allows the listener an emotional and visual journey unique to the director.

The narrative is at the heart of Charles-Antoine’s creative process. His ability to direct actors of all ages is an undeniable asset to each project. His various projects with young actors demonstrate his ability to connect with their talents to deliver great results.

The road to festivals and competitions remains to be discovered, but with the release of his first short film “Cendres, La légende du héron et des 62 lacs”, Charles-Antoine hopes to share his vision of the world with anyone who cares to listen.

Les orphelins Production
Graham GS Producer
Alexandre Richard Executive Producer
Charles-Antoine Thériault Director, Writer, Editor
Graham GS Cinematographer
Mariepier Desfossés Artistic Director
Nathalie Bourdelais Script consultant
Remi Van Bochove Costumes
Nika Veilleux Hair and makeup
Miranda Chan Choreography and performance
Marie Tifo Voice Over
Sophie Thériault Assistant artistic director
Francesco Giannini 1st Assistant director
Alec Lemonde 1st Camera Assistant
Jeanne Tual-Krebs 2nd Camera assistant
Franz Benjamin Stapelberg Gaffer
Louka Hogue Key Grip
Gabriel Pothier First drone operator
Loic Romer Second drone operator
Florence Beaudoin Production assistant
Raphaël Impinna Production assistant
Réservoir Audio Sound Mix and editor
François Delfante Sound Mix and editor
Julien Racine Sound Mix and editor
Simon Leoza Original Score
Divison Couleur Color Grading
Olivier Séguin-Dang Color Grading
Guillaume Lachapelle VFX
Alexandre Richard Online
Kiril Shmidov Translator

“Pars” is a music and dance video that explores the movements of dancers in relation to the movement of nature. Leaving and returning in an eternal cycle of life.

Clarissa Rebouças (Director)

Clarissa Rebouças was born in Brazil and has lived in Quebec, Canada since 2015. A graduate in cinema, she is a director, screenwriter and editor. Clarissa has already made more than 10 short films which have traveled to national and international festivals. In Quebec, she was able to learn more about the reality of immigrants when she made a documentary and a web-series on this theme. Her work is mainly inspired by a feminist perspective and by subjects that affect the realities of women. The artist is currently in research-creation at the master’s level, which allows him to deepen his knowledge of new devices that include moving images.

Clarissa Rebouças Director
Angélique Amyot Producer, Key Cast
Roger Cournoyer Producer
Jade-Emmanuelle Amyot Key Cast
Valérie Pitre Key Cast

A man overcome by loneliness and guilt tries to leave everything behind. As he travels through increasingly desolate landscapes, he realizes that he cannot escape from himself. A visceral and stark portrait relieved by occasional bursts of colour, humour and hope.

Robin Pineda Gould (Director)

Robin Pineda Gould is a Montreal based artist. He works primarily with video and sound. His work explores the social and political dimensions of presence. He thinks of image collections as pathways that can reconfigure and deconstruct our structures of desire and individuality. He also works extensively with contemporary dance. His audio-visual work has been presented at Usine C, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Tangente, Monument-National & Agora de la Danse… His first alchemical video installation premiered in New York in 2012 at the AC Institute. He presently is finishing a master’s thesis and describes his visual work as a continuous search for the miraculous through the life of the image in the soundscapes of time.

Robin Pineda Gould Director
Parts+Labour_Danse Producer

Hear Here Productions presents Woodlight: Green Moss Meadow, an experimental interdisciplinary film shot outdoors in rural Nova Scotia, Canada. Poetry by Alice Burdick, movement by Susanne Chui and Music by Erin Donovan. The third of a three part series of short films.

Erin Elizabeth Donovan (Director)

Erin Donovan is a musician, producer and director of interdisciplinary performance in Nova Scotia, Canada. Woodlight is a series of three short films (her first) that show her work with dance, music and poetry in outdoor settings.

Erin Elizabeth Donovan Director
Erin Donovan Writer, Producer
Alice Burdick Writer, Key Cast
Susanne Chui Writer, Key Cast

We seem to seek out the differences. In many ways we are very different from other living beings; however, the unpredictability, constant change, and relationships found in nature are comparable to our own. Commensalism, mutualism, or parasitism, doesn’t it all come down to perspective? Even between ourselves we seem to seek the differences, unaware of how it affects us. Those who notice understand the feeling.

Meghan Mainville (Director)

Meghan Mainville (she/her) is contemporary choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, and teacher originally from New Brunswick. She is a graduate of The School of Dance and is currently working out of NB and Ottawa. Meghan has shown her work at the Atlantic Dance Festival (2020 & 2021), Bouge d’Ici Festival (2021), FringeMTL Virtual Encore Programming(2021), Saint John Contemporary Dance Festival (2021 & 2022), Open Studio Series (2022), NextFest (2023), and Cinédanse (2023). Meghan is a company dancer with Tara Luz Danse and occasionally performs improvisational and site specific scores with Ottawa Dance Directive. Her most recent project is a film entitled Shifting creatures, Restless structure. Meghan is a guest choreographer at DeLaSalle High School (2022), was a teacher for Kaeja d’Dance’s Express Dance workshops(2021/22), and taught contemporary for The School of Dance’s professional ballet program students (2022). She has started using film as a tool to show her work to a larger audience, making it more accessible, as accessibility is a priority for her as a creator. Meghan is driven by challenges and new experiences, inspired by nature and the people in her surroundings.

Meghan Mainville Director, Producer, Choreographer, Dancer
Jean-Sébastien Chiasson Director of Photography
Pierre-Luc Clément Sound Designer

Offering creates a meaningful and joyful convergence between the Migration Dance Film Project’s body percussion artists and emerging artists from dance (gigue, contemporary, street) and circus arts. The choreography uses the power of procession in Montreal’s urban borough of Little Burgundy to amplify its storyline of (re)imagined homescape in the era of mid-pandemic. The procession formed by movement artists from across communities weaves its way through urban corridors, neighbourhoods, green spaces — an uncoiled assemblage of nomadic storytellers anchored in the intimate knowledge of individual and shared experiences in unison. Offering imbues movement in stillness within our city and takes refuge in its powerful migratory patterns traced across our urbanscape.

Marlene Millar (Director)

For over 30 years filmmaker Marlene Millar has created screen dance, documentaries and experimental media productions. With a background in design, contemporary dance and filmmaking (BFA Concordia University, Montreal), Marlene pursued graduate filmmaking at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, before she received a Pew Dance Media Fellowship at the University of California (Los Angeles). Millar’s expansive career was honoured at her first solo exhibition, a retrospective of her 30-year practice at Threshold Artspace, UK (2019).

Since 2000, Millar has co-created a critically acclaimed collection of dance media work with Philip Szporer through their production company, MOUVEMENT PERPÉTUEL. Their award-winning films have been broadcast nationally and widely circulated at international festivals and influential exhibition spaces: the 2010 Cultural Olympics, World Exhibition in Shanghai, and a UNESCO tour of Latin America.

Founded in 2014, the MIGRATION DANCE FILM PROJECT series (LAY ME LOW, PILGRIMAGE, MOVE, TRAVERSE, NAVIGATION), produced/directed by Millar and produced/choreographed by Sandy Silva, has garnered over 25 awards internationally. This process-driven continuum comes to life as Millar transposes the choreography to the screen, creating a poignant visual language that reveals the intricacies of these issue-driven, performative stories centred on migration.

Millar’s installation/experimental media works explore alternative forms of screens, capturing metaphoric histories and docu-fiction resonances—notably in the recent video installation WITNESS. Collaborations include: VR project SKELETON CONDUCTOR; stereoscopic 3D installation research project LEANING ON A HORSE, ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS (UCLA/UCSC); LOST ACTION: TRACE, stereoscopic (3D) live-action/animated film co-directed with Szporer (National Film Board of Canada); 1001 LIGHTS, installation co-created with Szporer (Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, Jewish Museum of Australia, tour of Germany with Tanzrauschen) and film installations for live performance—TERMINUS and QUARANTAINE 4 x 4 (Société des arts technologiques/SAT) with the RED RABBIT PROJECT and SING JUK SING (Oboro)with visual artist Mary Sui Yee Wong.

Millar is a prolific educator teaching filmmaking workshops across continents at institutes such as Centre Imagine (Burkino Faso), Loikka (Helsinki) and has mentored documentary filmmakers in Iqaluit, Iglooklik, Cambridge Bay and Pangnirtung, Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic.

www.marlenemillar.com

www.migrationdance.com

www.mouvementperpetuel.net

Marlene Millar Director, Writer, Producer
Sandy Silva Writer, Producer
Kathy Sperberg Producer
Sonia Clarke Key Cast
David Cronkite Key Cast
Dominic Desrochers Key Cast
Omar Motion Carter Key Cast
Afia Douglas Key Cast
Issac Endo Key Cast
Hélène Lemay Key Cast
Chloe Hart Key Cast
Louis Roy Key Cast
Sana Hutchison Key Cast
Rachel Hutchison Key Cast
Edai Larobina Key Cast
Kimberly Robin Key Cast
Mathilde Richer Key Cast
Bobby Thompson Key Cast

A film crew is preparing to shoot a scene in a colorful studio. As the filming goes, their gestures gradually slip into dancing, revealing the beauty of the choreography of film sets.

Axel Robin (Director)

Axel Robin is a young filmmaker from Montreal searching for a balance between sincerity and absurdity, as well as between organicity and artificiality, experimenting through fiction and dance films.

Axel Robin Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Animator
André Abat-Roy Key Cast
Diego Cervantes Key Cast
Ève Constantin Key Cast
Maéva Cochin Key Cast
Mathieu Hérard Key Cast
Clémence Dinard Key Cast
Aliénor Chamoux Key Cast
Maxim Bertrand Key Cast
Yasmine Chami Key Cast
Benjamin Harvey Key Cast
Léa Barsalou Director of photography
Louis Parent Music composer
Louis Parent Sound Designer
Éloïse Carpintero Production Designer
Laurence Wells Choreographer
Kayla Fragman Costume Designer
Théo Parent Accessories Designer, Sound Engineer
Anna Migdissova Makeup Artist
Sara Sadegi Assistant Makeup Artist
Melissa Koay Assistant Hairstylist
Olga Novikov Assistant Hairstylist
Ella Dero Hairstylist
Laurence Perreault-Brière Assistant Art Director
Alizée Collin Assistant Costume Designer
Laurie Vigneault 1st Assistant Camera
Adèle Foglia Steadycam Operator
Edson Niebla Rogil 1st Assistant Director
Louis-Emmanuel Gagné-Brochu Production Manager
Camilo Mangas Production Assistant
Mika Yatsuhashi Grip
Louis Parent Grip
Charlotte Clerk Assistant Set Dresser
Laurence Wells Assistant Set Dresser
William Albu Colorist
Laurie Vigneault Graphist
Whitney Norceide Set Photographer
François Carpenter
Keriann Barault-Lindor Script Supervisor

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

Albert Camus, Summer, “Return to Tipasa,” 1952

This quote is a perfect description of the atmosphere during the creation of this new collection of 5 short films. In its own way, each one portrays an inner force that animates the human being beyond the self.

Ready-to-wear solos | Stacey Desilier:

Search for the place that seeks us. On a sustained rhythm, a danced conversation with imbalance and a space that restricts itself.

Éliot Laprise, Karine Ledoyen (Directors)

Choreographer and dancer Karine Ledoyen trained in Quebec City and began her career in France. Returning to the provincial capital in 2001, she launched the Osez! concept, which received critical acclaim in Quebec and internationally. She founded the Danse K par K dance company in 2005, where the quest for human fragility dominates in all its forms, developing shows like Target, Air, The Nobody, Three Landscapes, Boys Dance, Night Dance, Dancing in a Living Room and Glorious Fragility. In parallel to her career, Ledoyen has reflected on her artistic practice as part of a master’s degree at Laval University. During the pandemic, she developed Osez! Solo, a series of performances danced outside for a single spectator. The concept evolved into Ready-to-Wear Solos, where she collaborated with director Eliot Laprise to make 10 short films that are presented as projections in the hands of passers-by in the street.

Eliot Laprise is attracted to acting as much as he is to directing. Since graduating from the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Québec in 2007, he has performed in more than 20 plays on

various stages in the province. He has appeared on the big screen in many roles, including the films Les Grandes Chaleurs de Sophie Lorain and Triptyque, a film directed by Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires. He was also part of the cast of Feuilles Mortes, released in 2016. His became more in demand as a director in 2011, when he was selected from among 600 candidates to take part in La course Évasion autour du monde, a documentary competition held around the world. Since 2012, he has directed short fiction and documentary films, advertising and music videos, in addition to being a video designer for the stage. In June 2017, he completed a training at L’INIS, where he wrote his first play for the stage, Je veux participer au chaos.

Éliot Laprise Director
Karine Ledoyen Director, Producer
Stacey Désilier Choreographer, Key Cast”Performer”
Roger Cournoyer Musical Composer
Éliot Laprise Photography Director
Raphaël Posadas Technician
Vano Hotton Artistic Director

La Goddam Voie Lactée is an adaptation of the choreographic work by Mélanie Demers. Launched in June 2021 at the Festival TransAmérique, the piece has had an impressive trajectory. Filmed by the eye of Jérémie Battaglia, this small aesthetic big bang projects us into the imperfect and infinite universe to which we belong and in which we choose to continue, together, despite everything. Because after all, to despair together is already to hope a little.

Jérémie Battaglia, Mélanie Demers (Directors)

Jérémie Battaglia DirectorCo-réalisateur, Writer
Mélanie Demers DirectorCo-réalisateur, Writer, Chorégraphie
Sandrine Maltais Direction photo
MAYDAY Production
Alice Renucci Direction de production
Bernard Dubreuil Direction de production
Alexia Roc Direction artistique
Alexandre Lechasseur-Dubé Direction artistique
Victor Bertrand-Ouellette Maquillage
Guillaume Marin-Lafond Montage
Alice Foglia Caméra
Stéphane Barsalou Son
Daniel Toussaint Son
Daniel Toussaint Mixage
Olivia Watson Costumes
Alexia Roc Costumes
Alexandre Lechasseur-Dubé Costumes
Tim Bouvette Décoration
Charles-David Roc Décoration
Charotte Legault Régie
Frannie Holder Musique
Anne-Marie Jourdenais Chargée de répétition
Harrison Fun Designer
Assurance Legault Autre
Samuel Wilde Autre
Alexandra Shaporina Autre
Nicolas Desilus Autre
Florelle Del Burgo Autre
Vincent Bombardier Autre
Evelyne Benoit Autre

Small and big feelings about putting in a day’s work.

Ben Sellick (Director)

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ben grew up listening to music and watching Hitchcock movies. He studied film with Guy Maddin, developing a love for strange and ‘true’ stories told in pictures. Ben went on to study music at the Juilliard School, but kept his love of the movies alive writing, directing, and composing his first two short films in 2022-2023.

Ben Sellick Director, Composer
Joan Dwiartanto Director of Photography, Editor
Jordyn Hubbs Choreographer, Dancer

SNAP, Archie’s Story is a short video conceived and directed by George Stamos featuring the legendary dancing, distinct voice and story of NYC vogue-dance icon Archie Burnett (Grandfather of the House of Ninja). In this rare and vulnerable portrait, vivid imagery, humour, movement, and Archie’s narration come together to tell his remarkable story of resilience and unwavering fierceness. Both playful and contemplative SNAP explores the precarious and sometimes punishing world of professional dance as dancers uphold images of strength and a “the show must go on” mentality, despite pain and adversity. Through inventive visual collage and recent and archival footage, SNAP provides a backstage pass into Archie’s path as a pioneer in this art form.

George Stamos (Director)

Montréal-based Director George Stamos spent his formative years in the Queer performance art and contemporary dance milieus of Toronto, London, Amsterdam and New York in the 1990s. Since the mid-1990s, George has maintained a thriving career as a Choreographer and Dancer. In 2018, George completed his graduate studies at the Department of Communication Studies of Concordia University. George produced and directed several short videos as part of the 52pickupvideos project, the short documentary Our Bodies Our Business, and many promo and video installation projects in the contemporary dance field. SNAP, Archie’s Story is Stamos’ first short video released to festivals.

George Stamos Director, Writer, Producer,
Archie Burnett Key Cast

Music and Dance push and pull each other in this original score and choreographic creation by Daniel Pelton and Jocelyn Mah.

Daniel Pelton and Jocelyn Mah (Directors)

Daniel is an award-winning musician and composer. Graduating in 2018 from the University of Calgary, he studied under award-winning musicians including Juno Award winner Allan Gordon Bell. Daniel’s training has made him a versatile performer in classical, jazz, and contemporary music styles.

Performing across Western Canada, Daniel’s acclaimed horn band Long Time No Time has shared the stage with notable acts, including New York’s Too Many Zooz. Among the band’s successes are winning a Best Canadian Independent Music Video Award and being nominated for the Jazz Album of the Year. As an independent artist, he’s worked with many different organizations and performers, recently playing alongside Canadian blues-rock powerhouse Jesse Roper.

As the Calgary Public Library’s Composer in Residence for 2020, Daniel focused on creating an environment for all community members to connect through music. Continuing with this work, his most recent project aims to make classical and modern music accessible to the general population. Started in residency, his 2022 original album, The Gold Coin Sessions, features a diverse array of Calgary musicians.

Born and raised in Calgary, Jocelyn Mah is a graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and holds her Master of Arts in Contemporary Dance Performance from The London Contemporary Dance School (London, UK). Jocelyn has performed for numerous independent artists and companies based in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and London, UK. Jocelyn was honoured to be the recipient of the inaugural Winchester Prize for Choreographic Distinction. Her lively choreography has been presented across Canada as well as in the UK and Europe. Jocelyn’s practice also includes music study and composition, arts curation, puppetry and mask performance.

Daniel Pelton Creator
Jocelyn Mah Creator
Gbohunmi Photography and Post-Production
Jess Oliverio Sound

Humans are like existential onions. There are many layers to uncover, hence the title name, Undertones. It is a single-channel experimental movement film that focuses on the relationship between the underlying layers of architecture, music & sound, and the movement artists. The film plays with themes of curiosity, tension, connection, and release. Through movement, it explores how personal experiences and emotions are not only affected by other individuals, but also by the elements in the environment that surrounds us. The relationship is cyclical in nature and as the cycle repeats, we gain more awareness within and outside.

Kat Castro (Director)

Kat (she/they) is a 1st generation Filipina-American interdisciplinary artist, embodied healer, director, and producer born and raised in New Jersey, currently based out of NJ/NYC. More importantly, she’s Human. Grounded in the theme of kapwa (shared-self) and rooted in ancestral healing, she focuses on creating belonging spaces to honour vulnerability and self-exploration through her work.

Maintaining her inner-child fire, Kat curiously experiments through different mediums such as movement, film, photo, design, and more. Raised in an immigrant household, she always rebelled towards the arts at a young age. From playing piano, to showing off dance moves to her grandparents, to documenting memories with her mom’s point-and-shoot cameras, she always found ways to express herself in whatever way she could. In the midst of pursuing and finishing her degree in Kinesiology at the University of Toronto, she found ways to break out of the expected mold and spent any time she could, immersing herself in Toronto’s art and dance communities. This opened doors for her to where she continues to build and expand with local and global artists, brands, and non-profit organizations, aiming to put an emphasis on sharing stories through a socio-cultural lens.

Kat Castro Director, Producer
Doomgurl/Mandy Sanchez Cruz Music Producer, Producer
Cody “Coflo” Ferreira Mastering
Jerick Collantes Colorist
Dorcas Ho Camera Operators & Assists
Alissa Dawn Camera Operators & Assists
Jonathan Yau Production Assistant
Jayson Collantes Movement Artists
Kosi Eze Movement Artists
Frances Antoinette Honoridez Movement Artists
Monika Lê Graphic Designer & Illustrator
Special Thanks to: Ecru.club, Pam Lau, Jimmy Vi, Hernani Sagra, Studio North Toronto, Jess Ortaleza, Andrea Lopez, Maya Kell-Abrams

Insight Out is a choreopoem about identities—it was a collaborative process in words and movement and the music is our voices and silence. A collaborative creation in words and movement choreographed by Jess Huggett with Robert Chartier, Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson, Rachel Gray, Moni Hoffman, Dylan Phillips, Maureen Shea, Renata Soutter, Shara Weaver, Elizabeth Winkelaar, and Russell Winkelaar. Creative consultants: Rachel Gray (text), Maureen Shea (movement), Bryce Morison (smudging music), and Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson (rehearsal director and support). Audio editing by Rachel Gray. Video editing and closed captioning by Matthieu Hallé. Insight Out was created through Propeller Dance’s Emerging Choreographers Program under the mentorship of Shara Weaver. Jess Huggett gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the City of Ottawa.

Jessie Huggett (Director)

Jessie Huggett is a dancer, visual artist, advocate, and public speaker living and working in Ottawa, Canada on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishanaabeg People. For over 14 years, she has been a member of Propeller Dance, one of Canada’s foremost integrated contemporary dance companies. Jess has received numerous arts grants and awards including recent professional development grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Ottawa. Jess is also a member of Ghost Rooster Collective. In 2005, Jessie received the Jane Cameron Award for an artist with Down syndrome.

Propeller Dance Producer
Jess Huggett Director
Moni Hoffman Dancer / Collaborator
Renata Soutter Dancer / Collaborator
Russell Winkelaar Dancer / Collaborator
Robert Chartier Dancer / Collaborator
Liz Winkelaar Director
Dylan Phillips Dancer / Collaborator
Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson Rehearsal Director & Support
Rachel Gray Collaborator & Audio Editor
Matthieu Hallé Video Editor & Closed Captioner
Maureen Shea Movement Consultant
Bryce Morison Musician
Shara Weaver Outside Eye

This piece is inspired by a traditional Ardhanārīśvaram, a bharatnatyam dance in which two bodies move as one. Representing the everlasting duality of Shiva and Parvati, this piece shares their love as they hold the universe in between and within them. Shiva/Shakti – Eternal Lovers is about the fluidity of their shared and separate identities, the balance between their creation and destruction, and the equality and respect that their relationship holds. We see Shiva’s gentle love and Parvati’s strength and determination; they are eternal reflections of each other.

Shivani Josh (Director)

Shivani Joshi Director, Writer, Producer, Key Cast
Purawai Vyas Key Cast
Abhishek Rangnekar Videographer

A container of memories, laid down in sequence; two astronauts floating in space, a heart string connecting two points, playing hide and go seek with god, confronting the muzzle of control, weighted fingertips and a crumbling body, a midnight bird call, a salsa of sorts, the beast under your bed, a giant tree falling at your window, and snakes in the forest.

Eowynn Enquist, Isak Enquist (Directors)

Eowynn Enquist Director
Isak Enquist Director
Jennifer Mascall Producer
Darryl Ahye Videographer