Youth Activities

School matinees are an opportunity for primary and secondary school groups to discover contemporary dance, interact with artists, and experience the richness of this art form in a stimulating environment.

What if the cinema of our anxieties crept into reality?

Balancing tension and vulnerability, four performers with diverse abilities draw on the conventions of horror and suspense to confront and make peace with our fears and inner demons. A wheelchair transforms into a ghostly vehicle. A poetic duet is cloaked in ominous shadows. The illusions of the performance remind us that our fears are sometimes born of distorted perceptions and an ancient survival instinct gone astray.

Spect’atelier takes students through the process of creating a dance work, with excerpts from a show in development and customized facilitation activities.

For their first work for young audiences, Ebnflōh invites young people to discover Hip Hop dance as a powerful language for storytelling and emotional expression in its own right. The work explores intergenerational exchange through the lens of inheritance and becoming. Who do you consider a mentor in your life? Beyond education, these people pass on values and perspectives that help shape who you become.

Adapted to specific age levels, each dance workshop includes a warm-up session, improvisation or exploration games and the learning or creation of a mini-choreography.

Available at any time, on demand.

Puzzle danse offers children aged 8 to 13 a fun way to create their own choreography by assembling dance segments like a digital puzzle.

Discover the four creative puzzles designed in collaboration with choreographers Ismaël Mouaraki (Destins Croisé), Alexandra “Spicey” Landé (Ebnfloh), and Helen Simard (We All Fall Down). Plus, an installment of the game created entirely by young people from Wendake, Montreal, and Charlevoix!

The game is compatible with tablets and computers.

Puzzle dance was created with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Enjoy a lively, sensory family workshop where movement engages with sound, music, and everyday gestures. Guided by the artists and collaborators Simon-Xavier Lefebvre and Jacques Poulin-Denis from the company Grand Poney, participants are free to explore rhythm, the body, and listening in a warm, relaxed atmosphere. No experience required — just the desire to move, play, and experience it together.

This activity is presented in collaboration with Le Vivier as part of Mini Neuf, the young-audience day of the contemporary music festival La Semaine du Neuf.