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Who are we?
Le Radeau is a contemporary dance creation and production company based in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang (Montreal), co-directed by the artists Ariane Boulet, Dorian Nuskind-Oder, Nate Yaffe, and Catherine Lavoie-Marcus.
We are an organization dedicated to the expansion of choreographic art, in both its creation and its manifestation in the public sphere. Our activities include artmaking, offering support services to dance communities, teaching, and artistic outreach.
We research radical approaches to co-creation, seeking ways to decentralize ourselves as authors within the artmaking process. We value art that bobs and bends in the unpredictable waves generated by unconventional collaborations and mixing perspectives. Within this agitation, we activate a certain collective intelligence. In this way, our projects seek to create lasting dialogues between disparate communities within our city and beyond.
In addition to producing our individual artistic projects, Le Radeau creates a space for collective reflection. Together we question how to make dance at this moment in time; reimagining both our role as artists within society, and the ethics and aesthetics of our work. This critical conversation grounds us and emboldens us to take thoughtful artistic risks.
As co-directors, we share equal responsibility for the administrative and artistic direction of the company, while also benefiting from shared human resources in accounting, production, and communications. This horizontality in both the office and the studio allows us to embody values of sharing, solidarity, and collective action.
HISTORY
2012 The company Je suis Julio is founded by Ariane Boulet, Andréa de Keijzer, Joannie Douville and Gabriel Vignola.
2014 Je suis Julio incorporates as a non-profit organization.
2017 Je suis Julio welcomes two new artist members. The company is now shared by Ariane Boulet, Andréa de Keijzer, Dorian Nuskind-Oder, Gabriel Vignola and Nate Yaffe.
2019 Catherine Lavoie-Marcus joins the ranks of Je suis Julio, Andréa de Keijzer and Gabriel Vignola depart. The company begins a period of introspection and evolution, as the current members re-imagine its form.
2021 Je suis Julio takes on the new name, Le Radeau.
ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZATION
Ariane Boulet
Catherine Lavoie-Marcus
Dorian Nuskind-Oder
Nate Yaffe
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Rosée Tremblay (PR) Dorian Nuskind-Oder (VP) François Grisé (TR) Ariane Boulet (SE) Catherine Lavoie-Marcus Nate Yaffe Christel Durand
Communications
Mélina Schoenborn
accounting
Lydie Revez
FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZATION
Ariane Boulet
Andréa de Keijzer
Joannie Douville
Gabriel Vignola