Espace Perreault
Choreographic transmission

The Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault (FJPP) became Espace Perreault Choreographic transmission (EP) in 2021. But before this change of name, it is worth mentioning the main activities of the FJPP that are constitutive of EP’s current history.

From 2011 to 2013, the FJPP produced the large web exhibition Jean-Pierre Perreault, chorégraphe, bringing together more than 625 documents —interviews, videos, drawings, and posters— an exemplary work of dance archive preservation. In 2013, it collaborated with the Institut du patrimoine and the Faculté des arts at UQAM on three focus days: Documenter, recréer… Mémoire et transmissions des œuvres performatives et chorégraphiques contemporaines.

In 2014, for the FJPP’s 30th anniversary, the new director and the board announced that the FJPP would promote various choreographic heritages, and not solely Perreault’s legacy.

In 2015, the FJPP organized a focus day: Copyright: A space of freedom or constraint for the creation and use of choreographic works and launched the guide Artistic Legacy Guide: Le Testament Artistique.

To foster the creation of knowledge, further days of reflection followed; in 2018, three days brought together artists and researchers from Québec and abroad to examine the traces and writings of dance; in 2019, a day was devoted to Authorship in dance: multiple experiences, bringing together practitioners and theorists.

For the exhibition Corps rebelles —Musée de la civilisation, Québec (2016) and Musée des confluences, Lyon (2017)—, the FJPP worked on the conception of Danser Joe, a participatory experience created by Moment Factory based on Perreault’s Joe. The SMQ awarded it the Télé-Québec audiovisual and multimedia prize; at the Festival international de l’audiovisuel et du multimédia sur le Patrimoine in Budapest, the initiative received the Gold award in the Multimédia Art Innovative category.

In 2016, the FJPP launched the portal EC2_Espaces chorégraphiques 2 in collaboration with several partners, and launched the digital Collection of choreographic boxes documenting works by Paul-André Fortier, Danièle Desnoyers, Louise Bédard, Lucie Grégoire, Pierre-Paul Savoie, and Jeff Hall.

In 2019, ahead of the curve on digital issues, it carried out the major project Dance in Quebec: Boosting the Discoverability of Digital Content, providing the dance community with tools to enhance its discoverability (workshops, guide).

In 2021, at a celebratory event at the CAM, the FJPP became Espace Perreault Choreographic transmission and launched a beautiful website reflecting its renewed mission, open to diverse dance practices.

In 2022, at the Salle Iro Valaskakis-Tembeck, EP presented the film Françoise Sullivan : ce pas qui vient de soi. This film went on to be presented elsewhere in subsequent years.

In 2022, EP launched the publication Ancestral Memories in Dancing Bodies, and the collaborative digital platform Sismography – Recording the injuries, grief, and perils of dance.

In November 2023, EP enthusiastically launched Joe Choreographic toolkit at the Cinémathèque québécoise, and in fall 2025, at Studio Nyata Nyata, to a full house, EP launched the Mozongi Traces et mémoires Choreographic toolkit.

Finally, among other major events, noteworthy is the organization of the days of reflection Dancing Bodies, Memories and Identities: Inventing Decolonial Practices on April 9 and 10, 2026 at MAI | Montréal, arts interculturels. This landmark event was an immense success. Particularly inspiring, it drew more than a hundred participants who took part in exchanges with the approximately twenty invited guests. The launch of a publication deepening the reflections from the two days is planned for fall 2028.

The active role EP plays in the dance ecosystem is unique and an inspiration to the entire community.

Angélique Willkie
Vice-chair

Performer, singer, pedagogue and dramaturge, Angélique Willkie completed a Masters degree in Economics at McGill University before starting her dance training at the School of Toronto Dance Theater. Her career evolved in Europe over the following 25 years where she worked with, among others, Alain Platel, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jan Lauwers / Needcompany, and as a singer with the Belgian world-music group, Zap Mama. Working as a dramaturge for dance and circus, Angélique is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Contemporary Dance at Montreal’s Concordia University.

Josée Plamondon
Secretary

Master of Library and Information Science, MBA.

Trained as a librarian to be a data and information retrieval systems specialist, Josée was confronted with organizational and technological issues related to the dissemination of information in diverse areas including cultural industries. She has contributed to projects aiming at interoperability and data sharing, content indexing for machine processing and knowledge sharing. Now a consultant, she offers content creators and producers who are facing digital challenges to understand the dynamics of information and learn how to exploit the data that describes their content. Since 2016, she co-organizes an annual semantic web meeting in Quebec in the form of a conference.

Josée recently worked with the Canada Council for the Arts, the Quartier des spectacles Partnership, Canadian Heritage Information Network and SODEC. She sits on the Quebec government’s digital council.

Élisabeth-Anne Dorléans
Board member

A graduate of UQAM’s Bachelor of Dance program, followed by a Master’s degree from the same department, Élisabeth-Anne is a Montreal-based dance artist. Passionate about dance, she uses her diverse practice to contribute to the development and recognition of dance in all its forms.

Nabila Ghernati
Board member

Professional with over 15 years of experience in fields related to immigration, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Nabila advises and guides managers in implementing inclusive strategies and practices in their organizations to allow people from underrepresented groups to be recruited and access jobs and governance bodies. She has supported some 100 non-profit organizations in an inclusive governance program, enabling them to acquire tools and good practices so their organizations and boards of directors can be more representative of Montréal’s diversity and its talent. In previous positions, Nabila led workshops on managing cultural diversity in employment in Montréal businesses and coordinated a round table for employability organizations for three years.

Claire MacKinnon
Board member

Claire is a Canadian Screen Award-winning Producer with over 20 years of experience in the Film, Television and Publishing fields. Claire has overseen business and legal affairs on multiple dramatic and documentary television series as well as feature documentary films, including the multi-award winning dramatic series Little Bird (CRAVE, APTN, PBS, ARTE), Mohawk Girls (APTN, CBC, Peacock) and the feature documentary film RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World (TMN, APTN, SRC, CBC, PBS), as well as many other titles.

Sophie Michaud
Board member

Sophie Michaud began her career in dance at the beginning of the 1980s. For over 30 years, through university studies (B.F.A and M.F.A. in dance, doctoral studies in artistic studies and practices) and a sustained practice, she has specialized in supporting choreographic projects. Rehearsal director and artistic and dramaturgical advisor, she works with many choreographers at different stages of creating their pieces, placing particular importance on the intricacy of artistic and interpersonal challenges and how they manifest themselves in studio. Informed by extensive experience of the creative process, Sophie M. also acts as a consultant, editor, trainer, and artistic mediator. Pursuing her own research, she is interested in the history of dance, ethics, and sociology of professions.

Isabelle Poirier
Board member

Isabelle was a performer with Compagnie Marie Chouinard for eight years and then rehearsal director. She continues to work freelance as a rehearsal director, remounting the company’s works for various companies and schools. In 2015-2016, she performed the solos Cartes postales de Chimère by Louise Bédard and Les Choses dernières by Lucie Grégoire, and helped write the Choreographic Toolkits of these same works for Espace Perreault (formerly Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault). A graduate of LADMMI with a major in art history, she now teaches dance at Concordia and is artistic advisor to EDCM, Rhodnie Désir, Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Natasha Kanapé Fontaine. She dances for Ariane Boulet and Lucie Grégoire, and is co-director of teaching at Corpuscule Danse.

Chloé Saintesprit
Board member

Chloé (they / zie / zim) is a professional who has been working in the arts and culture sector in Quebec for nine years. A former dance performer, they holds a degree in dance from UQAM, a DESS in management from HEC Montréal and a certificate in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) from Cambridge University. As an EDI consultant and speaker, Chloé works to improve the representation of diversity and inclusion processes within organizations in various sectors, particularly in decision-making spheres. As part of this same vision, Chloé is an ambassador for CMTL’s Groupe des Trente, Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Centrale des Artistes in Laval, and is involved in numerous projects such as editorials and panels, in collaboration with various players across Canada.

Anne Thériault
Board member

As creator and performer, Anne Thériault has been weaving collaborations with artists from multiple backgrounds for fifteen years. She is a founding member of Lorganisme, a structure that reinforces the activity of choreographers, bringing them together and encouraging them to deepen their respective artistic approaches through sharing creative, human, and material resources. She has also been an associate artist at Usine C since 2018 and is invited as a « artiste-chercheure » by L’L- an experimental research structure for the living arts in Brussels, until 2023.

Ingrid Vallus
Board member

Ingrid Vallus studied cinema and holds a bachelor’s degree in dance from the Université du Québec à Montréal. A cultural worker for over 20 years, she has developed experience in production, communications, dissemination, cultural project and event management, as well as cultural mediation. Since 2016, she has accompanied numerous artists, mainly in writing projects and grant applications. As a dance artist, she has recently created and performed three solos and is pursuing projects as a performer.

Alongside her activities in the arts, she has been a French-language facilitator for the past six years and participates in museum accessibility projects for the blind and visually impaired.

Lise Gagnon (she/her)
Executive Director
dg@espaceperreault.ca

Marina León (she/her)
Project Manager (in replacement of Ariane Dessaulles – maternity leave)
info@espaceperreault.ca

Maude Archambault-Wakil (she/her)
Media Project Manager

Renée Hudon (she/her)
Accountant

Stéphanie Connors, teacher and researcher in school dance pedagogy

Lucy Fandel, dance artist and cultural mediator

Shérane Figaro, dancer and choreographer in the Haitian contemporary dance scene

Marie Claire Forté, dancer and composite artist in contemporary dance

Lise Gagnon, Espace Perreault Executive Director

Gabrielle Larocque, artist and researcher in arts and museum studies

Sophie Michaud, artistic consultant in contemporary dance

Katya Montaignac, performer, choreographer, dramaturg and critic

Nayla Naoufal, artistic director for the Festival Accès Asie, author, researcher, and teacher in environmental humanities

Josée Plamondon, data and information retrieval systems specialist, consultant and co-organizer of an annual semantic web meeting in Quebec

Yvon Soglo, alias Crazy Smooth, dancer, choreographer, founder and artistic director of Compagnie Bboyizm

Anne Thériault, creator, performer and founding member of Lorganisme.

In collaboration with the Espace Perreault team members:

Victoria Côté, cultural worker and Communications and Philanthropy Manager at Espace Perreault

Ariane Dessaulles, dancer, choreographer and Project Manager at Espace Perreault.