Léonie Bélanger and Éloi Angers-Roy | texuvie

A dance artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal, Léonie Bélanger completed a bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance at the Université du Québec à Montréal (2021) and has since pursued a career as a performer and choreographer. She has had the opportunity to work with Caroline Laurin-Beaucage, Catherine Lavoie-Marcus, Danièle Desnoyers/Le Carré des Lombes, Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin, and Alejandro Sajgalik, among others.

Léonie’s practice revolves around an expanded approach to the body, which drives her to explore collaborative, interdisciplinary, and digital forms of work. In her creative work, she seeks to understand how the body can bridge the gap between lived and imagined realities.  She presents, among other works, Corps. Route. Ride (Festival des Faubourgs) and ALTERMUNDI (OFFTA and Tangente), hybrid creations blending dance, improvisation, and science fiction by the Projet Alterdogs collective, which she leads alongside choreographer Claire Pearl.

Éloi Angers-Roy is an artist working with images (digital, pictorial, video), based in the territory of Tiohtià :ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. A master’s student in anthropology (Université de Montréal), his artistic research currently focuses on: 

• the discursive unpredictability of artistic expression and its potential for disruption.
• the banality of the spectrum, systemic abstraction.
• the concrete experience of collaboration.

texuvie is an installation-performance project that envisions a loom weaving the body across physical and digital space. In a process inspired by weaving notation techniques, the digital image and the gesture take on the role of the textile fiber. These two raw materials intertwine in a photo-choreographic ritual facilitated by a technological device. 

The moving body interacts with software—an optical system that processes the exposed areas of skin as visual material. Gradually, human contours are captured, indexed as materials, and then assembled into a quilt. Carnal forms with abstract morphologies then emerge, in which the human body is perceived without being recognized. texuvie seeks to generate an interactive environment within which digital weavings of flesh are constructed slowly and with sensitivity.

Sound Design: Victor Burton

Digital Instrument Design: Alexandre Burton

Spatial and Textile Design: Clara Jane Rioux-Fiset

Dramaturgy: Line Nault

Co-production: artificiel.org

Funding: Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts de Montréal.