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Activities
Activities
Dance creation workshop at the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke
Dance partnering masterclass at École de danse CADENCE
Dance creation workshop for professional artists at the Centre des arts de la scène Jean-Besré
Post-performance discussion with the audience and artists after every performance
Since 1990, École de danse CADENCE has fostered a passion for dance in Sherbrooke. Welcoming more than 600 students each year, the school offers high-quality recreational and competitive training in ballet, jazz, hip-hop, contemporary dance, folklore, lyrical dance, tap and acro dance.
Students ranging in age from 3 to 72 develop in a positive, inclusive and stimulating environment that supports their technical, artistic and personal growth.
Community engagement is also central to CADENCE’s mission. Through performances at festivals, community events, shopping centres, seniors’ residences and other public venues, students have opportunities to share their passion, build confidence and contribute meaningfully to the cultural life of their community.
Performances
Performances
DANCE WORK
DANCE WORK
Cont@ct
Cont@ct
a work by Nu.Skin
a work by Nu.Skin
Cont@ct explores the connections that unite us beyond movement. Through attentive listening, physical contact and shared energy, six performers celebrate friendship, belonging and the bonds forged over time. The work pays tribute to a vibrant humanity, sustained by presence, play and a shared passion.
Performers: Alain Abboud, Andrew Ea, Kevin Desriveaux, David Michel and Sean WathenMusic: RossomodoPhotography: Laurence Rosset, known as Lolographer
The Next Act
The Next Act
a work by Jake Poloz
a work by Jake Poloz
The Next Act is a short duet in two acts exploring how we move through grief with the support of those around us. Blending contemporary partnering with western two-step, the work examines how loss divides life into a “before” and an “after,” and how the wound of an ending can give way to hope for what comes next.
Performers: Jake Poloz and Adele RossCreated by: Jake Poloz and Ramblin’ Jack ElliottPhotography: Melika Dez
Honey Never Spoils
Honey Never Spoils
a work by Zachary Bastille
a work by Zachary Bastille
Honey Never Spoils imagines a world without bees, vital symbols of ecological balance and collective solidarity. Through their hypothetical disappearance, the work reveals the fragility of our ecosystems and examines the erosion of the bonds that connect us.Moving through loss, individualism and the desire for emancipation, the piece transforms collapse into a possible turning point. It invites us to fundamentally reconsider how we inhabit the world and the interdependencies that make coexistence possible.
Performers: Lou Amsellem, Jake Poloz and Adèle RossCreated by: Adrian CopelandPhotography: Melika Dez
ANCRAGES: APRÈS L'ÉVEIL
ANCRAGES: APRÈS L'ÉVEIL
a work by Véroushka Eugène
a work by Véroushka Eugène
ANCRAGES explores the individual’s journey after passing through the dark night of the soul. When familiar points of reference collapse, where can we find grounding? How do we move forward between disorientation and certainty, wandering and self-affirmation, doubt and the desire for fulfilment? How do we begin to fully inhabit the purpose the soul demands of us?Blending dancehall, traditional and urban Haitian dance, and Afro-contemporary movement, eight performers embody this universal quest with their entire being. Drawing on more than ten years of experience, they command the stage with power and commitment, transforming movement into a space of reconstruction, affirmation and transformation.
Performers: Véroushka Eugène, Vanessa Eugène, Fredlyne Pierre, Coralie Millet and Steeven MarcelVocals: Véroushka EugèneMusic: Culture Capital, Erol Josué and ZahoMusical arrangements: Rose Gabrielle AugustePhotography: Benz Debrosse
POETRY
POETRY
Effets de réel
Effets de réel
a work by Nicholas Giguère
a work by Nicholas Giguère
Photography: Annick Sauvé
Je te tricoterai un parachute
Je te tricoterai un parachute
a work by Audrey Babin
a work by Audrey Babin
Photography: Allyson Rodrigue et Maxime Caron
Cannage
Cannage
a work by Franck Poule
a work by Franck Poule
Photography: Marianne Deschênes
DANCE WORK
DANCE WORK
Après l'image
Après l'image
a work by Avery Warren
a work by Avery Warren
After After ImageA creature slowly gathers itself, wrapped in colour and overflowing with curiosity. Entangled in its ruffles and propelled by its own momentum, it observes, reorganizes and re-emerges. It is neither better nor worse; it is simply… different. And just as curious as ever.Draped in cumbersome layers, After After Image explores transformation and the subtle differences that emerge from one moment to the next. Through weight, movement and an ever-evolving identity, the work reveals a creature shaped by natural change and a continuous process of becoming.Adapting and responding within a fragile, interconnected environment, the creature evokes the delicate balance of ecosystems. Moments of shedding and accumulation leave traces, revealing what remains and what is transformed. The work reminds us that transformation is an ongoing process—never complete and always alive.
Performer: Avery WarrenCreated by: Avery WarrenPhotography: Tom Hudson
ru-Elles
ru-Elles
a work by Compagnie Oredans
a work by Compagnie Oredans
ru-Elles evokes narrow passageways and in-between spaces where life unfolds beyond the main thoroughfares. These marginal territories also become places of freedom—inner landscapes inhabited with full awareness.In this work, bodies are grounded in rhythm while remaining suspended in space. Gesture after gesture, they carve pathways through these thresholds—between earth and sky, between what we see and what we would rather leave unseen.The bodies make perceptible what operates in silence: inherited histories passing through us, invisible forces shaping our lives, and resonances connecting each human being to something larger—to one another and to the many layers of the living world.
Performers: Aurélie Ann Figaro, Joselande Josué and Christèle PegeurroMusic: Nanm Vodoua, Toto Bissainthe and Ayub OgadaPhotography: Marie May Loubier
Le voyage des intellectuels, c'est de la bouffonnerie !
Le voyage des intellectuels, c'est de la bouffonnerie !
a work by Emmanuelle Martin & Sacha Ouellette-Deguire
a work by Emmanuelle Martin & Sacha Ouellette-Deguire
The Journey of Intellectuals Is Pure Buffoonery! humorously explores the sense of exclusion that intellectual and artistic circles can sometimes create.Performed by a trio combining dance and live music, the work unfolds in a world where absurdity becomes a driving creative force. At times bourgeois, at times utterly lost, the characters move between seriousness and mockery, searching for their way through a world whose codes seem to elude them.Confronted with a work so enigmatic that laughter becomes a lifeline, the piece overturns conventional notions of legitimacy and affirms that art belongs to everyone. It celebrates a playful, generous and resolutely accessible form of dance.
Performers: Sacha Ouellette-Deguire, Emmanuelle Martin and Emmanuelle Lambert-LemoineMusic: Johann Sebastian BachText: Gilles DeleuzeCostumes: Sacha Ouellette-Deguire and Emmanuelle MartinPhotography: Melika Dez
2 Filles dans l'parc
2 Filles dans l'parc
a work by Claudelle Bilodeau created in collaboration with the performers.
a work by Claudelle Bilodeau created in collaboration with the performers.
2 Filles dans l’parc is a duet performed on a bench. Side by side, two nearly identical performers move in unison. Beneath the apparent harmony of this “too perfect” duet emerges a reflection on individuality, authenticity and the place of imperfection.
Performers: Claudelle Bilodeau et Vicky Gélineau
POETRY
POETRY
Les mots sont des os durs
Les mots sont des os durs
a work by Vicky Bernard
a work by Vicky Bernard
Photography: Jessica Garneau Photographe
Titre provisoire: Courir sous l’eau
Titre provisoire: Courir sous l’eau
a work by Violaine Lachance
a work by Violaine Lachance
Photography: Leonardo Giraldo
Pollution lumineuse
Pollution lumineuse
a work by Mikella Boulanger
a work by Mikella Boulanger
Photography: Santiago Rojas Puerta
DANCE WORK
DANCE WORK
Labyrinthe, L'appel de la scène
Labyrinthe, L'appel de la scène
a work by Charline Mélançon, Sophie Duquette-Barcarolo
a work by Charline Mélançon, Sophie Duquette-Barcarolo
La Troupe SherbyDanse - Cégep de Sherbrooke
Labyrinthe maps out a space where every path is connected, yet none ever cross. Between invisible walls, bodies search for a way forward, revealing the contours of an inner struggle.
Can you hear it? The stage is calling. It draws you into a space where creativity, energy and strength converge, harmonize and multiply. Do not resist—let yourself be swept away.
Performers: Maïra Abran, O’Lord Ahokpe, Anouk Amuli, Deric Fournier, Alizée Gaudet-Giard, Noémie Giroux, Claudie Guertin and Arianne RichardMusic: Yoann Lemoine and Florence + the MachinePhotography: Mélanie Bergeron
FE
FE
a work by Niosbel Gonzalez
a work by Niosbel Gonzalez
“They left.
Leaving behind lands, words and songs.
Carrying within their bodies the scars of departure
and roots—deep, alive and impossible to tear away.”This work explores the invisible traces of immigration: displacement, memory, longing and an unwavering belief in a better future. Onstage, bodies become living archives. They carry traditions, reveal wounds and resist erasure. What words leave unspoken takes shape through movement: trauma becomes pulse, silence takes physical form and nostalgia becomes a driving force. Through an intense and poetic physical language, the choreography connects the intimate with the collective, the ancestral with the contemporary, and loss with what may still emerge. Despite absence and the fractures left by departure, something endures: a fragile yet incandescent hope. A sensitive and powerful journey paying tribute to those who dance so as not to forget.
Performers: Mariem Valdes, Erismel Mejias, Gabriela Herrera and Niosbel GonzalezMusic: Pepe GavilondoPhotography: Alejandro Lavrador
Maiestas
Maiestas
a work by Rosalie Berger and Charline Mélançon
a work by Rosalie Berger and Charline Mélançon
What do you see in the way I move?
Can you accept
that the movement is mine?Parade as you wish,
but what do you truly want?Height.
Distance.
Your head turned toward the sky.
Are you truly superior?
Performers: Rosalie Berger and Charline MélançonAdditional performers: Maïra Abran, Anouk Amuli, O’Lord Ahokpe, Alizée Gaudet-Girard, Noémie Giroux, Claudie Guertin and Arianne RichardSound editing: Kamélie FournierMusic: Mixi Xu and Christophe Zurfluh (Quirky Funk)Voice and poem: Lana Del Rey, What Happened When I Left You, excerpted from Violet Bent Backwards over the GrassPhotography: Miguel Ezeta
DUO
DUO
da work by ZemmourBallet
da work by ZemmourBallet
Performers: Gabriela Guerra Woo et Nicolas ZemmourPhotography: ZemmourBallet
POETRY
POETRY
Hypersensible
Hypersensible
a work by Douce Sévigny
a work by Douce Sévigny
Photography: Marimay Loubier Photographe
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