Nate Yaffe is an experimental dance, theatre and video artist, based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) who researches queer strategies to create relational choreographic structures, placing performance as fundamentally a social exchange. His tactile dances  un-correct the self-censored body as a way to dismantle movement shame. He sees dance as a pragmatic tool, recognizing neuro/corporal divergence as a portal to touch meta-physical and spiritual dimensions. Nate researches how improvisation can be a technology to access the subtle logic of the interconnected Earth. Instead of creating scores from physical practices, he shapes his  improvised choreography through meditations on post-anthropomorphism. Nate works very closely with dramaturge Thea Patterson, researching how affect and failure within improvisation can help us connect with the more-than-human and death. As co-artistic director of Le Radeau, Nate seeks community-centred alternatives for being a dance artist in face of the uncertain future of global capitalism and ecological collapse. His works Terrien and Because of the Mud foreground how art collaborations create community, as well as art objects.

Thea Patterson is a Tiohti:áke/ Mooniyang/Montreal based choreographer, performer, and dance dramaturg. Her early choreographic works include Rhyming Couplets (08), and A Soft Place to Fall which was made into a BravoFact film by Mouvement Perpétuel (06) and the dance I cannot do (2013) which was presented at, amongst others, Movement Research-The Judson Church, and the Munich Dance Festival. An interest in collaborative models led to the co- founding of the collective The Choreographers (2007-2011) with Peter Trosztmer, Katie Ward, and Audrée Juteau. From 2007 to 2015 she was dramaturg, and co-artistic director with Peter Trosztmer on seven acclaimed works, including Eesti: Myths and Machines (2011) and #Boxtape (2014). She has also provided dramaturgy for several independent choreographers including Nathan Yaffe, Andrew Turner, Lois Brown, Sasha Kleinplatz, Isabel Mohn, and Katie Ward,. From 2014-16 she completed a Master’s degree at DAS Choreography in Amsterdam Thea has several ongoing collaborations, in Montreal, Portugal, Edmonton, and Newfoundland. Her most recent work Un-nevering (in process) was presented at the OFFTA in 2023. She is also currently a SSHRC funded PhD candidate in Performance Studies at the University of Alberta.

Introduced to visual art and performance at a very young age, Karine Gauthier developed her passion for light very quickly. She has collaborated on several projects, in different countries (Barcelona, Chicago, Helsinki, Mexico City, New York, Oslo, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Stockholm, Tokyo, Vienna…). She has designed lighting for Dana Michel (Silver Lion, Venice Biennale 2017), Clara Furey, Nicolas Cantin, Daina Ashbee, Gérard Reyes, Marie B, Alan Lake Factorie, Estelle Clareton (Parcours danse Award 2019), Audrée Juteau, Andrew Turner, Andrew Tay, Sarah Élola, Maria Kefirova, Emmanuelle Calvé, Elsianne, Suzanne Miller & Allan Paivio, Blanca Arrietta, Fredéric Marrier, George Stamos, Caroline Laurin-Beaucage and Martin Messier. She also navigates between circus arts and music with artists such as Marco Calliari, the NEF, Throw2Catch, Krin Haglund. She also participates in the co-design of Émile Proulx-Cloutier and Florence K with the designer Jean-François Couture. In addition, she has provided technical direction for several dance companies in Montreal. She also toured with artists Richard Séguin and Jorane. After 20 years of career, Karine Gauthier is still as passionate about this luminous path.