Katie Ward works from the traditional unceded territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe nations. She draws from the inner world of the self and an experience of change and flow connected to the world. Her works contains non-linear assemblages of forms, entities and rhythms, from score led dance. Katie examines formats that emphasize choreography and address self-organization. In her work, audience-performer relationships invite a lively spectatorship. She has developed stage dance performances, performance installations, spectator led performances, a radio performance, and she facilitates workshops, practice sharing situations. Katie has presented her work in the UK, France, USA, Sweden, Québec and across Canada.

Camille Gravel graduated with a certificate in digital music from Université de Montréal in 2020. Since then, she works has a sound technician on film and tv sets. Sensitive to the poetry of the land, she enjoys roaming the streets and forests in search of sounds to fix.

Ame Henderson (Tkaronto) is an artist working with dance and choreography. With a practice that spans publication, performance and exhibition, her work proposes experiential modes of being together. With the collective company Public Recordings she produced and toured over a dozen ensemble works from 2003-15 and she was a collaborator at Toronto Dance Theatre from 2013-19. She works regularly as a performer, outside eye and dramaturge and has taught in diverse contexts in Canada and internationally. She is currently working on the final dispatch in a triptych of duets co-created with Matija Ferlin, and is a collaborator in new projects with Katie Ward and Evan Webber.

Paul Chambers (Lighting Design). A Play for the Living in a time of Extinction (Centaur Theatre), Ricki (Scapegoat Carnival), Le Mont Analogue (Espace GO), Cabaret Noir (MAYDAY), L’ombre de Marie Brassard (NAC & Rideau Vert), Off-Off Broadway: Wallop (Wave Productions), PHOSPHOS (FTA, Montreal Arts Interculturels), Phoenix, Candide (Montréal Complètement Cirque). Contemporary Dance designs for Maria Kefirova, Clara Furey, Ellen Furey, Lara Kramer Dance, Katie Ward, Thierry Huard, Dorian Nuskind-Oder, Amanda Acorn, Catherine Lavoie-Marcus, PME-ART, Danse CarpeDiem, Sasha Kleinplatz, Benjamin Kamino, Parts+Labour_Danse. 2022 Prix de la Danse de Montreal for his career as a collaborator and designer in dance, 2022 META recipient for outstanding lighting design for A Play for the Living in a time of Extinction. Paul is a professor at Concordia University since 2015, and at The National Theatre School of Canada since 2018.

Andréa Marsolais-Roy is passionate about stage management and sound design for the performing arts. After five years studying electroacoustic composition at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, she continued her studies in 2014 in the Creation and Production program at the National Theatre School of Canada. Since graduating in 2017, she has been a sound designer for twenty plays, while holding positions as stage manager and sound engineer for numerous live arts productions (theater, circus, dance and classical music). She has worked with many artists and companies, including Cirque Éloize, Alexandra Stréliski, Olivier Kemeid, Dominique Leclerc, Marie Brassard and Marie-Ève Perron.

Michael Feuerstack is a music maker based in Montreal. In his solo career he has penned many records, resulting in a body of songs that passes from traditional to experimental – revealing a willingness to engage in both contemporary and traditional forms. Feuerstack also collaborates with countless other projects. For his work he has earned two Junos and a number of other accolades. He is also known for work with choreographers and filmmakers, and for producing and mixing albums with established and emerging artists. A tireless creator, Feuerstack is a seeker of stories to tell and new ways to tell them.

Mathieu Charbonneau is a pianist, keyboardist, producer and composer for film and television. His soundtracks can be heard in films such as Une Colonie, Eye On Juliet, La déesse des mouches à feu, Chien Blanc and Stéphane Lafleur’s latest Viking, as well as on television in Les Ultras (Télé-Québec) and Philippe Falardeau’s Lac Mégantic. He is also a member of Avec pas d’casque, Organ Mood, Ferriswheel and the Charbonneau/Amato synthesizer duo. His Solo Piano albums are released on the E-Tron label (Hull Qc). He lives in Montreal.

Yolande Laroche is a Canadian clarinetist, keyboardist, singer-songwriter, composer and music teacher of French and Taiwanese descent, based in Gatineau, Quebec. She holds a bachelor’s degree in music and a minor in arts administration from the University of Ottawa. Bringing her skills as a classically trained clarinetist to contemporary music, Yolande also works as a touring and session musician, and has accompanied Tess Roby, Rayannah, Nick Schofield, Luka Kuplowski, Michael C Duguay and Cedric Noel. She is a core member of the Ottawa art-rock band Pony Girl and the evocative experimental trio KAY-fayb. Her full-length album with her pop project Orchidae is set to release in spring 2025.

Jesse Levine is a Toronto-based musician and teacher. He plays keyboards and piano, and improvises on a variety of other instruments and electronic devices. He was a member of the Sun Ra-influenced jazz group Canaille, led by Jeremy Strachan in Toronto, which released the album Practical Men. As a solo artist, he has performed in Toronto, Chicago and Montreal. His album Laughing and Crying (mastered by Sandro Perri ) was released on Thom Gill and Colin Fisher’s Toronto label Love Nation. Jesse performs at venues such as Tranzac with his trio Yeah You’re Right and his solo project Cords.

Marie Claire Forté. The relational, experiential, and experimental potential of dance inspires me. I dance, choreograph, write, translate, teach, and support artists. I am the mother of Imogen Keith. My career has been nourished by long-term relationships with artists of different generations and aesthetics, sharing a love of process, rigour, and exploration. Important influences include Peter Boneham, artistic director and teacher of the now-defunct Le Groupe Dance Lab; choreographer Louise Bédard; multidisciplinary performance group PME-ART; visual artist Sophie Bélair Clément; and choreographer Ame Henderson. I work with artists whom I love, recently Katie Ward, Louise Bédard, Catherine Lalonde, Priscilla Guy et Émilie Morin, PME-ART, and Aurélie Pédron.

Peter Trosztmer comes from a family of Eastern European tinkerers. This sensibility has infiltrated much of his work and continues to play a role in his methodologies.   He has studied fascia in relation to  intercellular communication and the healing of transgenerational trauma through dance and movement.  He has dabbled in remote experience through AR and VR, however his  current research focuses on vibration as a form of biographical research.  Peter, having had the privilege of meeting and sometimes creating with too many great creators, is an artist committed to sensitive, deeply documented and physically realized work.