In partnership with Théâtre Aux Écuries, YOU ARE HERE is an intensive multidisciplinary creation residency for recent graduates of Montreal’s performing arts programs, as well as early-career artists who have followed a non-academic path. Bringing together emerging creators in dance, theatre, performance and circus, the initiative aims to foster encounters and to encourage the exploration of artistic practices. With technical support and dramaturgical guidance, artists are given an intensive week of creation in the theatre’s spaces to experiment, deepen their artistic approach and develop a short project.

At the end of the residency, the public is invited to discover the results of these explorations through a roaming event, with several works presented in different spaces throughout the theatre. YOU ARE HERE is a living laboratory, a meeting place, a celebration of emerging creation and a glimpse of what’s to come.

PROGRAM

Les Cloches / The Anruf

Frédéric Lauzon-Schnittka + Sebastian Kann

WAKE UP! For heaven’s sake, wake up!
The devil is not in those details.
Millions of insects crawl under your garden rocks! My grandmother’s tongue sits at this very moment against her teeth, possibly wrapping into an unprecedented sentence!
YOU SEE? The miracle is continuous, here and everywhere else.

Within a fluid and inconsolable circus body, Les Cloches / The Anruf admits to the focal and urgent existential sentiment.

Credits
Direction and Performance: Frédéric Lauzon-Schnittka
Dramaturgy: Sebastian Kann

MÉMOIRES ET FANTASMES LESBIENS_FLINTA.01

Møødz+ Lyzah + LEX + ODD + NGL Flounce + LATEX

FILE_01 / LESBIAN MEMORIES
WHACKING / UNARCHIVED
1970 → 2026

Where are lesbians and FLINTA people in the archives of Whacking?
We dig through hidden stories, forgotten or untold fragments, imaginaries and unspoken things passed from body to body.

00:00:01
A fraction of a second. A gaze lingers. The rest is off-screen. What becomes of a desire that cannot be spoken? What happens when we let it rise, when we hold it back? One pulse. Then another. The body begins to respond.

2026 | The archives are fragmentary. So we imagine what is missing. Memory rises to the surface.

Between erotic and cinematic fragments, Whacking, dancefloor and trance, desire accumulates, circulates, is shared, spills over. Memory and fantasy loop until they become matter to bring forth, dance, pulse, and release.

MØØD_01 / FRAGMENT_01 / END?

Credits
Creation and Performance: Maude Moodz Laurin-Beaulieu
Performance: Sophie LATEX Gadbois, Alexe LEX Lebel, Audrey ODD Sargent, Alyssa LYZAH Favero
Musical Composition: NGL Flounce
Set and Costume Design: PRU

Diplopia

Ethan Hinshelwood + Owen Wilson

‘’Diplopia’’ is simultaneously a dramaturgic experiment and a crash course on introspection. Two artists, one profile, inherent competition in an industry that views us interchangeably.This project asks the following: what happens to our sense of self if we purposely shed whatever differences we have as individuals in order to become as similar as possible? How much of an individual is necessary for creation? Can one presence be shared by two bodies?

Credits
Creation and Performance: Ethan Hinshelwood + Owen Wilson

MESA

Jacob Girard-Dardenne + Sebastian Reale Hernandez + Louis-Olivier Jetté + Audrey Gendron-Paiement

On a table, a narrator animates small objects and figurines to recount the odyssey of a cowboy crossing deserts and distant lands. He orchestrates every twist and turn, down to the sound effects he creates live. Behind the table, a real, flesh-and-blood cowboy, riding a wooden-and-leather saddle, struggles to escape the wrath of his creator.

At times an ally, at times an antagonist, the narrator gradually loses control of his miniature universe until, suddenly, the boundary between the one who tells the story and the one who lives it blurs.

Credits:
Creation and Performance: Jacob Girard-Dardenne + Sebastian Reale Hernandez
Assistant Direction and Production Management: Louis-Olivier Jetté
Production Assistance and Stagehand: Audrey Gendron-Paiement

Chienne dans le salon bleu

Julia Fafard + Leila Hébert

Bringing together—within a single body—the system’s immutability and upheaval, the reorganization and the erosion of our bonds. The performer moves to the rhythm of disjointed, endless, repetitive words.

“Chienne dans le salon bleu” bears witness to the fascism that is quietly creeping into our spaces. Attempting to defuse it by exploiting its incongruities. Asserting one’s presence, one’s dissent. Building resistance from the discomfort of one’s own living room.

Credits
Concept and Choreography: Julia Fafard
Performer-Creator: Leila Hébert

Le Montréal-Nord en moi

Lisa-Willia Volcy

”Le Montréal-Nord en moi” is a stage work blending theatre and dance, where presence and the ways we inhabit our bodies become material for research. The project moves through spaces where expression overflows, where the gaze of others shapes us, and where we learn to adjust how we carry ourselves. An exploration of what unfolds between who we are, what we choose to show, and what we allow ourselves to be — until we let it all go.

Credits:
Creation and Performance: Lisa-Willia Volcy
Sound Design: Elena Stoodley
Dramaturgy: Dardia Joseph
Movement Advisors: Brandonson Nesifort, Joselande Josue
Outside Eye: Lydie Dubuisson

FUCK YOU MAN

Yoanie Bélanger + Aurélien Grandjean + Déborah Bailly

February in Montreal, in a parking lot, at night. A taxi is waiting. Violette, 58, a taxi driver, will drive Antoine, 23, a foreign student, to YUL airport. Everyone is always far from home. Everyone. All the time. Everything is far and tonight it’s cold. Fuck this. FUCK YOU MAN.

Credits
Direction, Writing, Performance: Aurélien Grandjean
Performance: Yoanie Bélanger
Sound Design: Déborah Bailly

WORN

Madz DeRose + Tiera Joly Pavelich + Selena Russo + Enrique Reyes

WORN is a contemporary duet exploring closeness, trust, and reclamation through the materiality of a shirt. Acting as a second skin, the shirts become a site of comfort, constriction, and boundary-testing between two dancers. As the piece unfolds across phases of comfort, disruption, and release; the shared condition reveals itself as malleable. Navigating their continually mutating intent,the relationship fluctuates from safe to risky. The dancers reclaim softness and the painful imperative of shedding the past.

Credits
Choreography: Madz DeRose
Performance: Tiera Joly Pavelich + Selena Russo
Music: Enrique Reyes

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2025 cohort

Pauline Ben Guigui, Amélie Clément, Pénélope Dulude-de Broin, Samuel Guay, Émilie Hamel, Julie Boissonneault, Jules G. Even, Clémence Archambault, Mickeline Couturier, Keisha Lourdes, Bashir Al Mahayni, Inès Chiha, Bénédicte Nkanyi Ndela, Stella Lemaine, Trey Prince Roach, Esther Dobee, Merlin Matthewson, Nadav Sadlik, Marie-Ève Grégoire, Constance Malenfant, Étienne Perron, Kénio Gilbert, Alexis Tremblay, Flavie Lemée and N NAO.

2024 cohort

Laurence Mainville, Valérie Boucher, Marie-Anne Rahimi, Mikel Ibarrola, Stella Lemaine, Bénédicte Nkanyi Ndela, Karl-Henry Brezault, Hemjy Bizier Messier, Mathieu Desroches, Mirka Pouliot, Kym Gosselin, Kiamika Mouscardy-Plamondon, Déborah Bailly, Melania Maria Balmaceda Venegas, Léa Charbonneau, Jessie Lewis, Camille Panchaud-Lefebvre, Anna Vauquier, Léa Boudreault, Julianna Bryson, Charlotte Mégardon, Erwan Cosnuau-Polewska, Châtelaine Côté-Rioux, Alexia Vinci, Nicolas Lamoureux, Liliane Angers, Florence Bisson, Marjolaine Gervais, Katrina Moquin, Timothée Galais-Bayonne, Julie LeTallec, Auguste Daoust, Santiago Lopez Alzate, Rae Fleury, Lou-Anne Rousseau, Laura Borello-Bellemare, Dylan Ingwersen, Athena Lucie Assamba “Empress”, Sarah Norden

2023 cohort

Niń Khelifa, Dominic Bélanger, Noémie Beaulieu, Marion Daigle, Jean-Christophe Leblanc, Guillaume Létourneau, Janie Lapierre, Léo “Hit” Coupal, Camille Huang, Laura Brisson, Jenn Mong, Thalia Danielson, Melina Pires, Morgane Guillou, Mukoma-Kambuyi Nshinga “J. Style”, Jade Préfontaine, hasna lionnet, Audrey ‘Odd’ Sargent, Antoine ‘Flame’ Findeli, Maude ‘Moodz’ Laurin-Beaulieu, Laura Borello Bellemare, Pénélope Dulude-de Broin
Gabriela ‘Ellégance’ Jovian-Mazon, Catherine G. Vaillancourt, Faiza Maskhouni, Lauriane Cuello, Luca Max, Mathilde Murphy

2022 cohort

Clémence Dufresne-Deslières, Cha Raoutenfeld, JJ Houle, Paloma De Muylder, Jérémie Caron, Lydia Sherknies, Jean Dufresne, Valérie Dunn, Camille Massicotte, Claire Pearl, Léonie Bélanger, Arthur Champagne, Melania Maria Balmaceda Venegas, Marie Reid, Julianne LeBel, Mara Dupas, Chloé Chartrand, Cassandre Loiselle, Lori Pifko, Sebastian Reale Hernandez, Emmanuel Bossé-Messier, Alice Tixidre, Julianne Decerf, Wanderson Santos Damaceno, Michel Gionet, Mathilde Boudreau, Nine Desbaillet, Sofia Blondin, Fruzsina Lànyi, Zacharie Filteau, Marie Lévêque, Céline Laquerre, Hannah Biard, Luce Lainé, Martin Daigle, Philippe Dépelteau.

2021 cohort

Catherine Alepin, Lou Amsellem, Joey Arsenault-Cloutier, Léonie Bélanger, Matthew Bernier-Hudanish, Mélissa Bernier-Hudanish, Delphine Bertrand, Tiffanie Boffa, Mathilde Boudreau, Maryanna Chan, Philippe Dépelteau, Laurent Déry, Sabrina Dupuis, Xavier Duranceau, Janie Faucher-Roy, Cloé Gélinas Dupont, Rose-Anne Girard, Sarah Godard, Sarah Godard, Marie-Pier Jacques, Mathilde K. Richer, Laurence Laprise, Myriam Le Ber Assiani, Zachary Noël-Ferland, Nikita Peruzzini, Manon Pocq-Saint-Joan, Antoine Racine, Andrea Ramírez Falcón, Sacha Rancourt, Abi Stushnoff, Joannie Vignola

2020 cohort

Angel Solis Valdez, Annie Préfontaine, Bozidar Krcevinac, Camille Desgagné, Charlie Loup Sauvage, Clara Prieur, Daniel Stefek, Esther Duplessis, Flavie Lemée, Frédérique Deschamps, Hadrien Daigneault-Roy, Hugo Tremblay, Jean-Félix Benoit, JJ Houle, Joëlle Thouin, Kevin Tremblay, Loïc McIntyre, Lou Vincent Desrosiers, Marianne Lonergan-Pilotto, Megan Rennels, Mohammadreza Akrami, Myriam Pellerin, Natasha Descôteaux, Paloma De Muylder, Rachel Locas, Ribal Marrouche, Sarya Bazin, Sascha Cowan, Wendy Kim Pires, Yuma Arias

2019 cohort

Charles-Olivier Alain, Miryam Amrouche, Noémie Beaulieu, Roxanne Bédard, Juliette Bérubé-Brossard, Romy Bouchard, Guillaume Boulianne-Blais, Antoine Breton, Arthur Champagne, Elisabeth Coulon-Lafleur, Shakty Curbelo-Torrejon, Koralie d’Aragon-Bisson, Chann Delisle, Catherine Dicaire, Jeanne Dupré, Capucine Earle, Hannah Fisher, Geneviève Gagné, Jean-Loup Gagnon, Karelle Girard-Huneault, Madelyne Johnston, Madie Jolliffe, Leni Krivy, Félix Lahaye, Jean-Christophe Leblanc, Joëlle Leblanc, Rosalie Leblanc Houle, Christophe Levac, Evelyne Londei-Shortall, Mélodie Lupien, Olivier Magnan-Bossé, Marc-Antoine Morin, Tamara Nguyen, Olivia Pia Audet, Amélie Pineault, Marine Plasse, Jérémie Poirier, Mégane Pouliot, Clara Prezzavento, Luisina Rosas, Jérémie Roy, Mattis Savard, Ariane Trépanier, Marc-André Trépanier

2018 cohort

Antoine Amnotte-Dupuis, Jade Barshee, Félix Basque, Roxanne Bédard, Sarah Beer, Antoine Bellemare Pépin, Didier Bergeron, Clara Bich, Agathe Bisserier, Charlotte Bissonnette-Reichold, Raphaël Boily, Samuelle Bourgault, Jean-Baptiste Cabot, Magali Casaubon, Félix Chabot-Fontaine, Judith Chartier, Maryan Choinière, Victor Choinière-Champigny, Laurence Clavet, Philippe Côté-Leduc, Maude Demers Rivard, Élianne Desilets-Dubé, Emma Forgues, Gabriel Frappier, Charlotte Gagné-Dumais, Olivier Hardy, David Emmanuel Jauniaux, Madeline Joyce Smart, Vincent Kim, Étienne Lafrenière, Kenny Lafrenière, Catherine Lapointe, Thomas Lapointe, Érika Lefèvre, Isabella Leone, Guillaume Létourneau, Guillaume Loslier-Pinard, Louis-Charles Lusignan, Adrien Malette-Chénier, Camille Marchon, Aurélie Marcoux, Marie-Laurence Marleau, Mathieu McConnell-Enright, Chanel Mings, Alex Miron-Dauphin, Azin Mohammadi, Jean-Benoît Mongeau, Catherine Morrissette, Jacinthe Nepveu, Virginie Ouellet, Jérémie Poirier, Alex Pouliot, Raphaëlle Renucci, Alexandre Ricard, Hubert Rivest, Vincent Rochette, Gabriel-Antoine Roy, Raphaël Scali, Yamina Sekhri, Flora Spang, Élie St-Cyr, Leyla Sutherland, Thomas Mantisse Tivierge Gauthier, Zoé Tremblay, Charles Voyer

LA SERRE – arts vivants s’est associé à Arprim, centre d’essai en art imprimé, pour la réalisation du visuel 2018 de VOUS ÊTES ICI. L’organisme a retenu le projet de Yamina Sekhri, artiste visuelle finaliste du Prix Albert-Dumouchel pour la relève, édition 2018, remis à un étudiant de premier cycle universitaire.

2017 cohort

Michaël Bédard, Rashel Bessette, Vincent Boudreau, Jérémie Brassard, Julien Carrière, Gabrielle Chapdelaine, Matéo Chauchat, Andréanne Daigle, Rosalie Dell’Aniello, Margaux Dorsaz, Karl-Émile Durand, Burcu Emeç, Cyndie Forget-Gravel, Joanie Fortin, Agathe Foucault, Myriam Gaboury, Lorie Ganley, Anne-Sophie Gaudet, Antonin Gougeon, Frédéric Goulet, Juliette Granger, Sophia Graziani, Joanie Guérin, Roxa Hy, Renaud Jobin-Delaquis, Zoé Lajeunesse-Guy, Marilyne Lamontagne, Aurélie Marcoux, Michael Martini, Cecilia-Marie McDonald, Darah Miah, Annabelle Payant, Camille Poitevin, Gabrielle Poulin, Steave Ruel, Meryl Schneller, Peter Shaw, Emma Simon, Anne-Marie St-Louis, Lael Stellick, Claudio Tamburri, Nien Tzu Weng

LA SERRE – arts vivants s’est associé à Arprim, centre d’essai en art imprimé, pour la réalisation du visuel 2017 de VOUS ÊTES ICI. L’organisme a retenu le projet de Geneviève Cadieux-Langlois, artiste visuelle finaliste du Prix Albert-Dumouchel pour la relève, édition 2017, remis à un étudiant de premier cycle universitaire.

2016 cohort

Catherine Beauchemin, Olivier Beauchemin, Vieux Néant (Charles Bicari), Maxime Brillon, Andréa Corbeil, Jonathan Cusson, Cédric Delorme-Bouchard, Estelle Desrosiers-Rampin, Pierre Dion Bisson, Élisabeth-Anne Dorléans, Ariane Dubé-Lavigne, Paméla Dumont, David Dupaul-Chicoine, Ariane Famelart, Antonin Gougeon, Amélie Grondin, Marie-Audrey Jacques, Renaud Jobin-Delaquis, Geneviève Labelle, Camille Lacelle-Wilsey, Marie-Pier Laforge-Bourret, Olivier Lalancette, Gabrielle Laurendeau, Mélanie Lefebvre, Mathilde Loslier-Pellerin, Mélissa Merlo, Sébastien Neault, Jessica Perry, Marie-Pier Proulx, Émilie Ramsay, Rebecca Rehder, Ariane Roy, Frédéric Sasseville-Painchaud, Maggie Sauvé, Pascale St-Onge, Eryn Tempest, Thomas V. Christie, Natacha Viau

2015 cohort

Samuel Bleau, Zoé Burns-Garcia, Gabrielle Carrère, Alex Côté, Laura Côté-Hallé, Tommy Demers, Ariane Dubé-Lavigne, Nicola Dubois, Thomas Duret, Marie Fannie Guay, Solo Fugère, Jessica Gauthier, Sophie Gervais-Doyon, Alex Godbout, Marie-Audrey Jacques, Kim L. Rouchy, Pascale Labonté, Catherine Laframboise, Mélanie Langlais, Marie-Pier Lefebvre, Camille Léonard, Léo Loisel, Xavier Mary, Amanda Perron, Rebecca Rehder, Guillaume Rémus, Maggie Sauvé, Zoé Schneider, Olivia Sofia, Marilou Verschelden

YOU ARE HERE is an event presented and produced by La SERRE – arts vivants in co-production with the Théâtre Aux Écuries. LA SERRE – arts vivants gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Conseil des arts du Canada and the Conseil des arts de Montréal.