As part of Artémis, a creation developed by PenserDanser, I was invited to design and lead a mentorship program that places philosophy, the body, and myth at the heart of the artistic process. My involvement in this project aligned with a trajectory I have been pursuing for several years: creating spaces where thought becomes movement, where gesture becomes method, and where dance opens new ground for questioning contemporary modes of living, sensing, and becoming.
The piece was built around the characters of Artemis, Agamemnon, and Iphigenia. (Photo: Simon Séguin-Bertrand / Le Droit Archives)
From the very first sessions, I structured the mentorship as a true research-creation laboratory. Rather than a top-down teaching model, it took the form of an ongoing dialogue between philosophical texts, ancient iconographies, mythological narratives, improvisational techniques, and sensitive embodied practices.
The philosophical guidance enriched the choreographic creation by offering artists conceptual and sensory tools to interrogate their own gestures. The figure of Artemis — goddess of thresholds, wilderness, women’s communities, foundational refusals, and metamorphosis — served both as a narrative matrix and as an experimental terrain. I ensured that each session combined complex readings (Merleau-Ponty, Butler, Levinas, Turner, Morizot…), accessible theoretical discussions, and a deep embodied anchoring. This structure allowed reflection to open outward while remaining closely tied to sensation, embodiment, and the subtle attention to what the body invents when it encounters an idea.
Accompanying Artémis offered an opportunity to affirm what underpins my entire practice: making philosophy a living tool — something that unfolds through the flesh, the breath, and our relation to others and to the world. Throughout this process, my expertise in art history, body studies, and philosophy helped create an environment in which dance revealed its capacity to think — to think differently, to think further.
It is this alliance of sensation and concept, of myth and gesture, that I sought to transmit and that continues to nourish my vision of artistic mentorship today.
- Artémis was selected as part of the 2025 edition of the “Projet 3e œil” artistic residency.
- Choreographer-performer: Marguerite Ingenito
- Composer and musician: Andrew Garfield Mills
- Dance mentor and outside artistic eye: Sacha Ouellette-Deguire
- Philosophical and artistic mentor: Jessica Ragazzini