Nicholas Bellefleur (they/il) is an interdisciplinary artist, somatic facilitator, community leader 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, take aligned action and dream collectively.
photo: Mickaël A. Bandassak
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 permeate possibility.
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 ancient and invented forms, aesthetics and praxis.
We have seen Bellefleur in athletic and conceptual works of Andrea Peña & Artists (2021–23) and Dana Gingras / Animals of Distinction (2023), the brutally poetic physicality of Virginie Brunelle (2021–22), the provocative ideas and practices of Dave St-Pierre (2021), the sensitve works of Harold Rhéaume (2019–21), and the neopunk choreographies of Wynn Holmes with LFDT (2022–24), where they also acted as associate director and facilitator of LFDT classes for 5 years.
Always Already is a space where the multiple practices, inquiries, and forms of creation that inhabit me can coexist.
Each project is an autonomous container organizing its own space, time, and rhythm. Rather than defining a discipline, Always Already creates the conditions for each idea to find the form each project needs.