With the aim of welcoming people from different strata of the professional cultural milieu to generate rich conversations, the FURIES PRO Day offers variable-geometry rates:
* Places are limited for each rate.
** In all three cases, registration includes a FURIES 2024 PASSPORT (sold for C$225, value C$280) + PRO Day activities and meals (value C$100) = total value C$395.
*** Transportation and lodging are at the participants’ own expense.
Mykalle Bielinski
Singer, multidisciplinary artist, composer and author, Mykalle Bielinski has been working at the crossroads of music and the performing arts for over a decade. Her powerful, crystalline voice conjures up music that resonates with the deepest intimacy as well as the greatest universality. Her album Da pacem (2024) fuses sacred chant and electronica, drawing on neoclassical, liturgical, traditional and pop music.
Since graduating from UQAM’s École Supérieure de théâtre en interprétation in 2011, she has been recognized for her singular stage presence and ritualized musical creations. Her trilogy on the sacred consists of three concert-performances: Gloria (2015), a 360-degree multimedia solo opera – Myth (2018), a mystical ceremony for 5 voices and Warm up (2021), an ecological ritual where she produces her own electricity. She has also composed and performed for some fifty projects in theater, dance, film and podcast, been a radio columnist, lent her voice to productions (7 doigts, Cirque du Soleil) and published in 2021, Mythe, précédé de Gloria, a collection of poetry with Éditions du passage. She has performed in Quebec, Canada and Europe (Photo © Justine Latour).
Parise Mongrain
A graduate of LADMMI (now EDCM), she first worked as a professional contemporary dance performer before dedicating herself to defending the rights and conditions of practice of dancers and performing artists.
She served as Secretary General of the UDA (2004-2011) and Director of the CRTD’s Quebec office (2002-2021). In 2015, supported by a highly committed team and Board of Directors, she founded the Quebec branch of the CQRTD, now Confluence – Créateur de vocations, dedicated to all performing artists.
Parise holds two master’s degrees, one in Industrial Relations (UdeM) and the other in Cultural Enterprise Management (HEC Montréal). She is a certified civil, commercial and workplace mediator (UdeS/IMAQ). She has been honoured as a “Life Member” of the UDA and received the Prix de la danse de Montréal – Cultural Manager category in 2020. (Photo: © Jean-Francois Brière)
Maïgwenn Desbois
After training in classical dance, Maïgwenn Desbois made the leap to contemporary gigue. She presented her first work as part of the Biennale de gigue contemporaine (BIGICO) at Tangente, choosing to work with different professional artists (Williams syndrome, Asperger syndrome, Down’s syndrome).
In 2012 she adopted the name Maï(g)wenn et les Orteils and in 2014 founded her company as an NPO From 2011 to 2016, she created and presented Dans ta tête, Six pieds sur terre and Avec pas d’cœur, each time at Tangente. Each piece is taken on tour, leading the company to dance in Quebec and Europe. In 2017, she joined forces with Danse Carpe Diem Emmanuel Jouthe to adapt the in situ creation Écoute pour voir.
In 21-22, she directed the dance video creation project Dans mes yeux under the supervision of director Philippe Meunier. Alongside her work as director, performer and choreographer, Maïgwenn teaches dance and has given hundreds of workshops in schools (Artistes à l’école and Une école montréalaise pour tous).
Sébastien Provencher
Sébastien Provencher holds a bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance from the Université du Québec à Montréal, and is a choreographer based in Montreal. His creations have been presented in Canada (Agora de la danse, Festival TransAmériques, Tangente…), France and Germany (Made in Potsdam). Since 2020, he has been a member of Lorganisme, a structure for choreographers, and is also co-artistic director of the FURIES festival presented in Marsoui on the Gaspé Peninsula. As a performer, he has danced for numerous choreographers in Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, including Louise Bédard, Harold Rhéaume, Sasha Kleinplatz, Manon Oligny and more.
Karla Etienne
Of Haitian origin, living in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), Karla Etienne, a graduate in cultural organization management (DESS at HEC Montréal) and environmental sciences (Maîtrise – UQAM), is Executive Director of the Canadian Dance Assembly and Co-Artistic Director of the FURIES festival, having previously held the reins of Nyata Nyata, alongside its founder Zab Maboungou. She has collaborated as a dancer on projects by George Stamos, Katya Montaignac, Sophie Corriveau and many others. Karla Etienne is guest curator of the Fonds national de création and currently sits on the boards of Ebnfloh, 100Lux and Théâtre La Chapelle. Karla will receive the Prix Stellaire de Nyata Nyata in 2021.
