Call for applications
Circuit-Est will present the 2025–2026 Bancs d’essai, during which four choreographers will have the opportunity to share a work-in-progress or an excerpt, engage in dialogue with the audience, and reflect collectively on their artistic questions.
The Bancs d’essai provide emerging choreographers with a unique space for creation and experimentation. These sessions offer the chance to test new ideas, explore movement or choreographic concepts, and receive professional feedback in a stimulating and collaborative environment.
© Raul Huaman
Free public presentations
April 1st, April 15th, May 6th & May 13th, 2026
8 selected artists
Espace Jean-Pierre-Perreault
Studio Peter-Boneham
The selected artists in 2026
April 1st, 2026 at 6 p.m.
Scoring the Heights is a dance and sound solo inspired by Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights, conceived as a choreographic score where electronic music, guitar, and movement are composed live. Through this solo, Tiera explores the fusion between dance and musical performance, creating an experience that is at once strange, joyful, and liminal, questioning the legacy of modern dance and the relationship between effort, virtuosity, and bodily presence.
© Stacy Lee
Draguer une violence is a solo piece that explores anger as an intimate and often repressed emotion, approached through words, sounds, and physicality inspired by frustration and rage. In a poetic universe marked by silence, objects, and contrasting textures, the piece reveals the many nuances of this emotion and reveals the gentleness that can also inhabit violence.
© Sam Billington
April 15th, 2026 at 6 p.m.
Outta is a solo performance in which the artist entrusts her Syrian passport to the audience, transforming this historically significant document into a gesture of trust and power reversal. Through dance and a soundtrack composed of archives and memories related to Syria, the piece explores the notions of borders, belonging, and vulnerability in a direct encounter with the audience. He will be joined by Léo Mignault on sound design.
© Bashir Al Mahayni
Born New is a choreographic project that explores renewal and resilience through movement, time, and shared presence. Beginning as a solo and evolving into a duet, the piece meditates on inner transformation and interconnectedness, revealing how life rebuilds and regenerates itself while leaving behind traces of what has been.
© Maxime Coté
May 6th, 2026 at 6 p.m.
Ordinary Acts 1 is a choreographic exploration for two bodies that explore the puzzle of rhythm, uncertainty, and tenderness in space and movement. Through interactions with the audience and a minimalist landscape of chairs, papers, and piano, the piece meditates on the fragility, intensity, and clarity of movement, while seeking to create a lively dialogue between body, sound, and spectator.
© Phil Latour
La Déferlante is a contemporary dance piece exploring the circular motif of the round dance, a symbol of unity, perseverance, and sisterhood. Through a slow, drawn-out pace followed by a gradual acceleration, the piece meditates on attention, time, and presence, transforming the stubborn repetition of gestures into a contemporary ritual where movement, sound, and interaction construct a space of communion and resistance.
© Justine Latour
May 13th, 2026 at 6 p.m.
Quand un arbre is a choreographic exploration of the connection between humans and nature through an intimate, autobiographical lens. Blending personal memories and shared stories, the piece creates a dreamlike world where ecological disenchantment meets physical poetry, inviting the audience to immerse themselves in a sensory experience that blends dreams, memories, and perceptions of life.
© Click Flash Photography
Un jour, Je serais fière is a choreographic exploration that weaves a dialogue between the raw power of Krump and the sensitivity of contemporary dance, exploring identity and self-acceptance through movement, improvisation, and live music. The piece questions the tension between the ideal and the real, transforming inner states into choreographic material to create a hybrid language where strength and vulnerability respond to each other and resonate with the audience.
© Melika Dez
PUBLIC
PRESENTATION
The four test bench sessions will take place on:
April 1st ➜ 6 p.m.
April 15th ➜ 6 p.m.
May 6th ➜ 6 p.m.
May 13th ➜ 6 p.m.
Espace Jean-Pierre-Perreault
2022 R. Sherbrooke E,
Montréal / Tiohtiá:ke
(Québec) QC H2K 1B9
