Nicholas Bellefleur

Nicholas Bellefleur (they/iel) is an interdisciplinary artist, somatic facilitator, and educator based in Tio’tia:ke / Montreal. They create spaces of presence and transformation where dance, technology, play, and critical thought collide.

Rooted in a queer and neurodivergent perspective, their practice moves fluidly between performance-making, improvisation, embodied research, and alternative pedagogies. Whether through posthuman performance works or consciousness-oriented workshops, Nicholas explores how to unlearn conditioning, reawaken intuition, and cultivate embodied, situated, and sensitive forms of being.

Their artistic and pedagogical proposals — performative, relational, or contemplative — emerge from deep listening to the body, altered states of perception, and the poetic power of glitch, ritual, and chaos. Each becomes an invitation to slow down, feel differently, and dream collectively.

Nicholas celebrates aliveness through punk and ecological ballets, happenings, workshop-performances, one-on-one coaching, and choreographic anthologies. Whether in a studio, a field, a theatre, a bunker, or a dream, they seek ways to unlearn, to feel differently, and to craft gestures that heal.

With a diploma from l’École supérieure de ballet du Québec, alongside rigorous training in contemporary dance, improvisation techniques, classical voice, and theatre, Nicholas continues to evolve through the aesthetics and praxis of their collaborators.