Danièle Desnoyers has created over twenty outstanding works for Le Carré des Lombes, which have been performed in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. Moving nimbly from ensemble creations to atypical projects, her artistic practice bears witness to a vision based on the interdisciplinary resonances between movement, the plurality of music and the visual arts. In addition to her creative activities, this artist educator teaches at the dance department of the Université du Québec à Montréal—her alma mater—where she was director from 2019 to 2022.

Moroccan-born Taoufiq Izeddiou is a choreographer, teacher and artistic director of the Anania Danses company and the “On Marche” festival in Marrakech. He created the first school of choreographic arts in Morocco. Between Africa and Europe, he creates works that explore the tensions between tradition and modernity, the individual and the collective, and the search for a new interpretation of dance. He was recently awarded the Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et Lettres de la France.