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In-Tessere

A danced and narrated performance that weaves, from local encounters, a sensitive mosaic of stories and presences.

With In-Tessere, Franco-Italian artist Ambra Senatore offers a tailor-made performance blending dance, storytelling, and site specific creation. Like a storyteller in motion, she draws inspiration from the place that hosts her and from the people she meets there, spinning a thread of personal and collective stories. At the crossroads of sensitivity and everyday life, the work explores the invisible connections between people, memories, and territories.

Its title evokes both the act of weaving — invisible bonds — and the gathering of fragments, like a mosaic where each tessera holds a piece of a story. Welcoming reality into its fabric, this ever-evolving work is anchored in the present moment, letting hospitality resonate as a poetic force. A significant experience of togetherness, here and now.

Ferrari en feu

Ferrari en feu is an ode to individual and collective freedom. With boldness and spontaneity, the duo embraces constraint as a space of possibility.

Balancing on the narrow surfaces of two chairs, the performers grapple with discomfort, pushing their limits, seeking to expand space both within and around themselves. Like a road trip, the piece unfolds through landscapes and encounters that leave their mark.

The Ferrari — a triumphant symbol of opulence and life’s accelerating pace — is playfully reimagined here. In an era losing its sense of meaning, Julia-Maude Cloutier and Amélie Gagnon defy pressure, resist speed, and transform the unbearable through resilience, humor, creativity, and revolt.

Margaret Grenier

She choreographed Setting the Path (2004), Sharing the Spirit (2007), Spirit and Tradition (2009), as well as the multimedia contemporary dance productions Spirit Transforming (2012), Flicker (2016), and Mînowin (2019).

Margaret has directed and produced the Coastal Dance Festival since 2008. Margaret holds a Master of Arts in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University and a B.Sc. from McGill University. She was a sessional instructor at Simon Fraser University for Foundations in Aboriginal Education, Language, and Culture in 2007. Margaret was a faculty member for the Banff Centre Indigenous Dance Residency 2013.

Ame Henderson Projects

Ame Henderson was born on Vancouver Island and now lives and works in Toronto. With a choreographic practice that spans publication, performance and exhibition, her work proposes experiential modes of being together. She co-founded the collective company Public Recordings in 2004, producing and touring over a dozen ensemble works from 2005-2015. She was also a collaborator at Toronto Dance Theatre from 2013-19. Her creations, developed through co-production and residency with a range of national and international partners, have toured widely. Henderson holds a graduate degree in choreography from the Amsterdam School for the Arts and alongside her art making, is a Gestalt Psychotherapist in private practice.

Provincija

The Provincija artistic organization is an independent platform dedicated to the exploration, production, and promotion of contemporary art, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary and experimental practices. It operates at the intersection of visual arts, performance, literature, and new media, supporting artists through various forms of production, residency programs, exhibitions, workshops and other forms of artistic exchange.

The organization was founded in 2021 by Matija and Mauricio Ferlin, with the idea of decentralizing the artistic scene in Croatia and creating a space for the research and development of contemporary performing arts. The core of its work is the production of performances by choreographer and director Matija Ferlin, whose artistic vision exists at the boundary between dance, theater, and performance, creating a unique artistic language that Provincija consistently supports and develops.
Provincija often explores themes of identity, the relationship between the local and the global through engaged and innovative artistic projects. Its work is characterized by openness to experimentation.

The organization’s current members are actress Jadranka Đokić, writer and dramaturge Goran Ferčec, costume designer Desanka Janković, musician Melita Lovričević, lighting designer Saša Fistrić, as well as the Ferlin brothers.

Matija Ferlin

Matija Ferlin is a Croatian theatre director, ensemble dance piece choreographer and performer of his own one-man shows. Ferlin graduated from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam and subsequently lived and worked in Berlin and Toronto. After returning to his hometown Pula, where he was born in 1982, he has focused on researching and rearticulating different concepts of stage performance, collaborating both with actors and dancers. Since 2023, he works as the artistic director of Istrian National Theatre in Pula, Croatia.

Gabrielle Desgagnés

Gabrielle Desgagnés est une interprète et une entraîneure basée à Montréal et à Québec. Elle gradue de L’École de danse contemporaine de Montréal en 2008 et continue dès lors à s’entraîner en danse à travers différents workshops au Canada et en Europe, ainsi qu’en acrobaties et en méthodes GYROTONIC® et GYROKINÉSIS®. Sur scène, on a pu la voir danser pour le projet OSEZ! 2009 à Québec, pour plusieurs pièces de Thierry Huard (dont le solo La Maîtrise) ainsi que pour Fragments de Lara Kramer. Elle est aussi de la distribution du vidéoclip Sprawl 2 d’Arcade Fire chorégraphié par Dana Gingras et performe sporadiquement au sein d’événements divers présentés au Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal. Elle fut apprentie sur le remontage de la pièce monumental de la défunte compagnie The Holy Body Tattoo et interprète pour la pièce Cocons somatiques de Pierre-Marc Ouellette et Manon De Pauw présentée à l’Agora de la danse. On a récemment pu la voir performer dans le vidéoclip Erreur sur la personne de l’auteur-compositeur Martin Lizotte, et sera du nouveau film La timidité des cimes de la compagnie Le Fils d’Adrien danse en 2022.

Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes

Le Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes fait partie du réseau des dix-neuf Centres Chorégraphiques Nationaux (CCN) créés en France depuis 1984. Les CCN, sont dirigés par des artistes chorégraphiques. Lieux de ressources pour la danse, ils développent des projets artistiques fondés sur la création et la diffusion de leurs propres œuvres, le soutien à la production et l’accueil en résidence de compagnies invitées, le développement de la culture chorégraphique et la formation. Ces missions leur sont confiées par l’État et les collectivités locales, dans le cadre de l’aménagement culturel du territoire et des politiques en faveur de la danse.