Victoria Côté péléja
Chorégraphe, Travailleur.se culturel.le, Interprète
Victoria Côté Péléja is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with movement and performance. Born in San Mateo, she is now based in Montreal. For her, movement is a way of connecting to what is alive — a form of listening as much as a tool for transformation.
As a performer, she has performed for companies such as Tentacle Tribe, Alan Lake Factori(e), Cirque du Soleil and amongst others. She also works as a stylist, outside eye, and movement consultant. Victoria is co-founder of the Coro Casse Festival, a street dance event in Quebec City, where she serves as organizer and programmer. She is deeply involved in creating artistic contexts that are accessible and socially engaged.
Her practice unfolds in the interstices between stage and street, gesture and textile, the intimate and the collective — staying close to the human, the real, and what moves from within.
In parallel, she began a research practice around freestyle and street dance with HHSPCFX, which led to the development of her solo ONIONMAN, a piece exploring layers of identity, dissociation, transformation, and the relationship to clothing.
The project has been supported through multiple residencies in Quebec and Europe, with support from the FoRTE program of the Île-de-France Region and the Danse Partout network (Atelier de Paris, CCN de Nantes, Charpente des Fauves, Archipel). ONIONMAN will be presented at the HipOpsession Festival in Nantes in May 2025, and at June Events at the Atelier de Paris in June 2025.