LFDTCLASS with Nicholas Bellefleur

LFDT classes are intended for bodies of all genders and abilities. The classes are facilitated by Nicholas Bellefleur (fluid pronouns).

Movement sequences are suggested as “frames.” These frames become your anchor points from which you choose to either stay and explore repetition or venture so far that the frame becomes merely an echo.

Focused on improvisation, the search for sustainability, and emancipation through dance, LFDT classes encourage participants to reimagine their bodies through the discovery of new ways of moving, to become acquainted with their own unique language, and to learn to love and celebrate it.

ACCESSIBILITY

Throughout the class, instructions are given verbally and exercises are demonstrated physically. All exercises are modifiable suggestions. You have the right to reduce the intensity or stop participating in an exercise at any time. Each class includes suggestions for running, jumping, and floor work. The use of music also acts as a rhythmic suggestion. No judgment, commentary, or discriminatory attitude will be tolerated.

OBJECTIVES

– Develop intuitive listening;
– Discover new coordinations;
– Expand one’s choreographic vocabulary;
– Value a curious practice and healthily exceed one’s limits;
– Fall in love with repetition;
– Find pleasure in movement.

→ A class outing open to the public will take place on Thursday, March 28th, from 7 pm to 9 pm.

NICHOLAS BELLEFLEUR

Nicholas is a queer non-native person who lives, works, and plays in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyaang/Montréal.

A contemporary dance performer for 10 years, Nicholas creates situations that bring together bodies of all genders and abilities to liberate themselves through creative movement. Sensitive to the ethical issues of inclusion, representation, and decolonization in their environment, their artistic practice is nourished by their socio-communal commitments and considers the intersectional complexity of being human in today’s world.

From a background in ballet to a proliferation of distinct sensory and aesthetic states, Nicholas Bellefleur is infinitely transformed by context ─ thanks to recent incarnations of LFDT’s neo-punk choreographies, the brutally poetic physicality of Virginie Brunelle, the provocative ideas and practices of Dave St-Pierre, and the athletic and conceptual works of Andrea Peña & Artists. Nicholas is keen on studying creative entanglements involving notions of spatial justice, resonance, conflict, responsibility, liberation, and care.