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Founded in December 2019, We All Fall Down Interdisciplinary Creations (WAFD) formalizes a 20-year collaboration between choreographer Helen Simard and composer Roger White. Under their co-artistic direction, WAFD explores the relationship between movement and sound, creating vibrant, fluid, emotionally intense performances where performers are in a constant state of metamorphosis. Their interdisciplinary approach brings together diverse, bilingual teams of collaborators from dance and music to examine and celebrate the complexity of the human condition through paradoxical works that are at once beautiful and haunting, accessible and provocative, familiar and strange, that have been presented in Quebec, Canada, Europe, and Africa.

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Helen Simard is a choreographer who has worked in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal for over 20 years. Her background in b-girling and contemporary dance informs a raw, highly physical approach to movement. Using repetition, complex patterns, and techniques of sensory overwhelm, Simard creates hypnotic performances that blur the boundaries between conscious and subconscious spaces. Being bilingual, she is fascinated by states of inbetweeness, as well as practices translation and misunderstanding. Her works are joyfully chaotic and complex in their simplicity, walking a fine line between the real and the imaginary.