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CREATION

Sacred Disaster
Raverie
La nuit nous appartient
A Safe(r) Space


CLASS

Praxis
LFDTCLASS
Reset

COLLABORATION

Andrea Peña & Artists
Virginie Brunelle
Wynn Holmes - LFDT

Nicholas Bellefleur


Montreal-based choreographer and interdisciplinary artist, I create immersive experiences that blur the boundaries of the living, artificality and integrity of space and time. My work is rooted in the body: a queer, virtuosic, sensitive, mutant body - traversed by memory, desire, technologies and systems of power.






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I'm interested in social f(r)ictions, the invisible architectures that shape our gestures, and the potential for transformation that emerges when we leave room for the unstable. My approach is guided by somatic listening, attention to the sensitive, and a willingness to subvert norms with tenderness and radicalism.

Last december, I co-founded the creative space proto studio. 


I create dances and experiences. 

I tell stories with and through my own body and others. 

I lead groups and communities into empowering themselves through praxis.
I also write.



I continue to recreate myself constantly, thanks to the aesthetics and praxis of my collaborators. Recently I embodied the athletic and conceptual works of Andrea Peña & Artists at La Biennale di Venezia and Tanzmesse, the brutally poetic physicality of Virginie Brunelle at Lugano Arte e Cultura, and the provocative ideas and practices of Dave St-Pierre at FIERTÉ MTL, the eco-somatic eroticism of Sébastien Provencher at Festival TransAmériques (FTA) and the theatrical, neopunk choreography of Wynn Holmes / LFDT at Espace GO which I facilitate the choreographic tools and technologies of improvisations ‘LFDTCLASS’ open to bodies of all abilities. 


Collaborations. (2023-2025)



Lo Fi Dance Theory, Proto Studio, Andrea Peña & Artists, A Safe(r) Space, Ballet BC, Virginie Brunelle, Tangente, Animals of Distinction, Nicolas Fonseca, Centre National de Danse-Thérapie, Dave St-Pierre, Le Fils d’Adrien danse,  Sébastien Provencher, Les 7 Doigts de la Main, Doux Soft Club, Kevin Calero, Morgane Le Tiec, Gioconda Barbuto, Yvann Alexandre, Jonathan Chomko, Cas Public, Marion Paquette, Royal Mount, Amara Barner, Fannie Côté, MGM Resorts, Lumières, Fleuve Espace Danse, Vue Sur La Relève, Antoniya, Julien Villeneuve, Miranda Chan, Jeune Ballet du Québec, Rae Fleury, Fondation PHI







Teaching. (2023-2025)



Ballets Jazz de Montréal (BJM Danse), École de danse de Québec, BIG BANG - Espace Ouvert, Proto Studio, Rüm For Dans, L’Artère, Centre National de Danse-Thérapie, Studio 303, 1820 Dance Convention 








Performance as practice.



I invest in performance as a practice of liberation. My work examines the collective unconscious, emphasizing the complexity and magnificence of the human experience. Intimately linked to my queer and neurodivergent perspective, I tend to interweave different choreographic modules; decupling, overlapping, circumventing and imploding the codes of performance.

My work celebrates the living through performances, workshops and creative gatherings: punk and ecological ballets, choreographic anthologies, private coaching, performance workshops, happenings...


©2025 Nicholas Bellefleur