12 SEPT 2025
Festival Quartiers Danses (CA)

Danse à la Carte
Mauricie Arts Vivants
Festival Quariers Danses

Coworker is an interdisciplinary solo dance project born of a reflection on the transformation of the human experience through the prisms of work, the internet and post-humanism. My work revolves around the question of performance in an increasingly technologized world, where the boundary between the biological and the digital is becoming blurred.

This project is rooted in my personal and artistic concerns: the exploration of my queer and neurodivergent identity, and the questioning of traditional models of work and performance. It seeks to destabilize the viewer's visual and sensory experience, while opening up a critical dialogue on contemporary issues of work, individualism and hyper-connectivity.

One of our colleagues wanders through the still-active ruins of late-capitalism. An office tower turned sanctuary, a screen turned oracle. Who are we, when the machine no longer distinguishes between us and the ghosts? When productivity becomes a cult, and burn-out a rite of passage? COWORKER is an interdisciplinary creation that simulates, performs, deranges and escapes. A corporate mirage. A dance on the verge of a crash.

Non-linear narratives through performance

An essential part of my approach is a non-linear dramaturgy, inspired as much by science fiction as by magic realism. I conceive my works first and foremost through characters: I seek to understand their inner world before anything else. What are their daily gestures, their shames, their fantasies, their contradictions? That's my starting point. Then I take care to blur the lines. I like to twist images, injecting breaks and shifts in meaning, so that the narrative remains porous and open to interpretation.

ARTISTIC

Nicholas Bellefleur

Brianna Lombardo
Peter Jasko

Jonathan Saucier

RESIDENCE

proto studio (QC)

INNOVATION / Danse à la carte (QC)

CONTACTS / Mauricie Arts Vivants (QC)

StoneBoat Arts Centre (ON)

PREMIERE

Festival Quartiers Danses (QC)