Promoting Consent in the Studio by Fostering an Atmosphere of Trust and Mutual Respect

1:00PM to 4:00PM
$20

Montreal

Bilingual training, in French and English

Exact schedule

Monday, March 30, from 1:00 PM. to 4:00 PM
Monday, April 6, from 1:00 PM. to 4:00 PM

A workshop for artists working in studio-based creation—including dancers, choreographers, designers, and directors—who want to strengthen collaboration and communication. Together, we’ll explore how to build healthy, trust-based relationships as the foundation for a successful creative process: from the initial concept through to hiring, meetings, rehearsals, and performances.

Through active, embodied exercises and conversations grounded in your own real-life experiences, you’ll gain practical ideas, daily rituals, and useful information to support your work. This is a workshop for our times, designed to quietly transform the studio into a space rooted in equity, care, and mutual respect.

Objectives

Understanding the principles of embodied consent.
Developing skills to build healthy relationships based on trust.
Making the studio a space based on fairness, kindness, and mutual respect.
Acquiring tools to assess and respect personal boundaries.

Who is this training for?

A workshop for artists—dancers, choreographers, playwrights, rehearsal directors, designers, and directors.

Instructors

Based in Montreal, Michèle Steinwald (she/they) is a consultant and artistic leader recognized for her expertise in contemporary dance, cultural management, and organizational support. After holding key positions at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and On the Boards (Seattle), she founded 44 Arts Productive, a consulting firm active in Canada and the United States, specializing in strategy, equity, and organizational development.

She holds a Master’s degree in curatorial practices (Wesleyan University) and a BFA in dance (Cornish College of the Arts), and is also trained in diversity, inclusion, and Indigenous studies. Her approach is based on collaboration, non-hierarchy, and kindness, which she now shares through training courses on respectful and inclusive management of teams and organizations.

Gerard Reyes (they/he) is a queer, multidisciplinary Uruguayan-Canadian artist based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke. As a choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, certified Sexological Bodyworker, and intimacy coordinator, they interweave sensuality and queer intimacy into performances, installations, films, podcasts and workshops that challenge the status quo and ignite necessary dialogue.

Reyes creates their own works and has danced for Marie Chouinard, as well as worked with Philippe Cyr (Atteintes à Sa Vie), Sophie Dupuis (SOLO), and other renowned choreographers abroad. Their constantly expanding repertoire of embodied practices and curiosity for ways of being accumulates as knowledge which Reyes transmits through art and education – hoping for deep healing on both a personal and societal level.

This RQD training is made possible with the financial support from the Government of Quebec, through the Intervention-Compétences program of Compétence Culture.