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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22.25.29 AOÛT 2025 @ proto studio
Movers: Cyndie Gravel, Emma-Lynn McKay-Ronacher, CaI Glover, Kristina Hilliard, Evelynn Yan
The word ‘praxis’ describes this axis of encounter between theory and practice. In this workshop, I propose to approach praxis rather at the intersection of experience and meaning, body and mind, opening up the possibility of making conscious what has hitherto been unconscious.
Throughout the workshop, I guide us through an awakening of the senses, cellular awareness and the present moment, so that the whole body is available to collaborate on the task. Starting with an undecidable situation, a zone of research opens up...
Through explorations of neutral instructions, our subjectivities and the complex collaborations between body, ego, conditioning, fears and curiosities will reveal themselves to us. We'll discuss the subtle forces that govern our choices. We'll allow ourselves to make new ones, and enter into a process of unlearning the conditioned body, expanding possibilities and exchanging perspectives. Our preferences, tendencies and limitations, as well as certain states, postures, rhythms and dynamics we didn't yet know we could activate in our bodies, will manifest themselves.
2024-25