Performances
This year, TOAF65 is excited to present two compelling and thoughtful dance performances. Les Montagnes, choreographed by Marie Lambin-Gagnon, and presented as part of Art Nest, Public Art Program, Storyline (with laughter, tears and beauty), choreographed by Peggy Baker.
Les Montagnes
Saturday, July 11 at 2:00 PM & 4:00 PM
Sunday, July 12 at 1:00 PM & 3:00 PM
Location: Ramp at Zone B
Nathan Phillips Square
Les Montagnes is a choreographic and visual work that transforms the body into a shifting landscape, solid yet unstable, and in constant flux. Drawing on sculptural forms and layered fabrics, the performers evoke geological processes of accumulation, erosion, and transformation. Inspired by Iceland’s glaciers, bodies dissolve, submerge, and re-emerge, creating a quiet resilience in which instability becomes a space for adaptation and renewal.
Through contemporary dance, sculptural movement, electronic sound, and layered materials, Les Montagnes invites audiences into a sensory encounter with scale, density, and duration, tracing human fragility against the slow endurance of the natural world.
Choreographer & Visual Artist: Marie Lambin-Gagnon
Curator: Rui Pimenta
Composer: Brandon Valdivia
Dancers: Brianna Lombardo, Daniela Jezerinac, Kathia Wittenborn
Outside Eyes: Kathy Casey
Costumes: Marielle Robichaud
Marie Lambin-Gagnon
Marie Lambin-Gagnon Marie Lambin-Gagnon is a visual artist, choreographer, and dancer whose practice integrates choreography, photography, textiles, and installation. Her work explores the body as a sculptural and perceptual space, engaging with materiality, temporality, and spatial environments.
Recent works include a new solo created in collaboration with Louise Bédard, premiered at the Festival des Faubourgs in Montréal (2025), as well as Still Life, co-presented with SummerWorks, The Citadel / Ross Center for Dance and dance:made in canada/ fait au canada, Still Together, presented at the Toronto Biennial of Art, Confluence (The Bentway), and Body/Landscape (Toes for Dance).
In 2020, she created Slow Death for the Art Gallery of Ontario, combining found objects, electronic sound, textiles, and references to Baroque painting. In 2019, she was commissioned by Toronto Dance Theatre for Slow Dance, for which the work received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination.
She collaborated with visual artist Sara Cwynar on Red Film as performer and choreographic collaborator. The work was presented at the São Paulo Biennial (2018), MoMA, and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
