nicholas
bellefleur
Artiste indisciplinaire, chorégraphe et enseignant, Nicholas Bellefleur explore un monde en constante mutation — queer, post-humaniste et radicalement vivant — dans lequel l’art, la danse et être ensemble deviennent un espace de soin, de résistance et de métamorphose.
Après avoir collaboré de près avec Andrea Peña, Virginie Brunelle et Wynn Holmes, Bellefleur fonde le proto studio aux côtés de Cai Glover et Caroline Namts à Tiothiake Montréal : un centre d’art auto-géré, un lieu pour la danse, l’émancipation et la coexistence.
404: MOTHER NOT FOUND
RAVERIE
LA NUIT NOUS APPARTIENT
A SAFE(R) SPACE
0018+ ÉROGÈNE
UNCANNY VALLEY
LFDTCLASS
REHEARSAL FOR THE FUTURE
Transmuting this fuckery and counteracting it with love.
L’aperçu est une invitation.
La performance en tant que pratique. La pratique en tant que performance.
PROTO
CONTACT
© BELLEFLEUR 2027
WORK/PLAY PRINCIPLES
PERFORMANCE RESEARCH.
THE BODY AS LANDSCAPE.
PROTOTYPING COEXISTENCE.
CHOREOGRPAHY AS WOLD-BUILDING.
CV
Ballets Jazz de Montréal
Professeur invité
École de danse de Québec
Professeur invité
Virginie Brunelle
Wynn Holmes / LFDT
Dave St-Pierre
Dana Gingras / AOD
Sébastien Provencher
Harold Rhéaume
Les 7 doigts / 7 Fingers
Fleuve Espace Danse
Gioconda Barbuto
Cas Public
Ballet BC
Coworker, Nicholas Bellefleur en prélude au Festival Quartiers Danses,
1 août 2025
LE DEVOIR
Débinariser la danse,
12 août 2023
LE DEVOIR
Une première chorégraphie québécoise co-produite par La Biennale de Venise,
27 juin 2023
LE DEVOIR
Les danseurs demandent « Révolution » d’améliorer les conditions de travail,
4 août 2021
JEU, REVUE DE THÉÂTRE
Questionnements sur l’individualité et le groupe,
12 septembre 2019
Festival Quartiers Danses 2025
DAC’OR 2025 (extrait)
MIRAGE CORPORATIF x COWORKER
proto studio 2025
404: MOTHER NOT FOUND
Meat Factory 2025
Fringe MTL 2025
Ouverture de
ROYALMOUNT 2024
RAVERIE
Fierté MTL 2024
LA NUIT NOUS APPARTIENT
Festival Carrefour 2024-25
A SAFE(R) SPACE
Tangente 2022
Vue sur la Relève 2021
Short & Sweet 2020 (extrait)
Festival Quartiers Danses 2019
Sadler’s Wells
Espace Go
Théâtre Maisonneuve
Lugano Arte e Cultura
Opéra de Paris
London Opera House
Théâtre St-Denis
Le Grand Théâtre de Québec
Ariane Moffatt, Soleil Denault
2025
MANIFESTO 6.58, film de danse
Andrea Peña & Artists
2022
CUBED, vidéoclip
Baile, House of Youth
2021
Passepied, vidéoclip
Jean-Michel Blais
2021
LE.DÉFI.DE.L’AMOUR., vidéoclip
Lumière
2021
Danser, docu-fiction
Artv 2014
ILS DANSENT! avec Nico Archambault, série documentaire
Radio-Canada, TV5
2011
Thank you for being you
Transmuting this fuckery and counteracting it with love.
photo: Kristina Hilliard 2025
I refuse to let distortion calcify in my body. I refuse to let noise become my nervous system. The chaos, the lies, the speed, the extraction, the grief, the hyper-productivity, the disembodiment — I take it in, I metabolize it, I move it. I sweat it out. I glitch it. I break it open until something else leaks through.
I am not interested in bypassing the darkness. I am interested in composting it.
The fuckery is real. Structural. Digital. Intimate. It lives in our timelines, in our economies, in our inherited wounds. It shapes how we love, how we work, how we imagine the future. It fragments attention. It flattens nuance. It sells urgency as virtue. It rewards spectacle over depth.
So I slow down. I listen for what is underneath the static.
Transmutation is not denial. It is an alchemical process. I let the ugliness touch me — but I do not let it define the final form. I move with it until it shifts state. Until rage becomes clarity. Until grief becomes devotion. Until fragmentation becomes multiplicity instead of collapse.
And then: love.
Not soft love. Not aesthetic love. Not performative love.
A love that holds boundaries.
A love that tells the truth.
A love that reorganizes power.
A love that insists on presence.
A love that refuses to dehumanize — even when dehumanization is trending.
Love as counterforce.
Love as refusal.
Love as design principle.
Love as survival technology.
My work is not about purity. It is about transformation. I am interested in what happens after the rupture. In the body that trembles but stays. In the community that chooses to metabolize conflict instead of exile it. In the moment where the glitch becomes portal.
We are living inside accelerated collapse and accelerated possibility. Both are true. The question is: what do we amplify?
I choose to amplify love — not as sentiment, but as strategy.
Transmuting the fuckery that’s been going on.
And counteracting it with love.
Texte écrit par
Nicholas Bellefleur 2026
© BELLEFLEUR 2027