The Dancers
The Dancers
Rahime "NOSB' Gay-Labbé
Rahime started dancing at the age of nine and he has been using his skills and interest in music - mostly percussion - to explore the different ways of using dance as a medium of expression ever since.
His alias, NOSB, stands for New Old School B-boy. As the youngest member of his group Bboyizm and part of the new generation of street dancers, NOSB sees the thin line between changing the dance form and respecting its natural evolution. He is recognized not only for his technical expertise but his extensive knowledge and understanding of the culture.
Rahime has been a strong asset and key member of Bboyizm Dance Company. He has toured with the company from 2012 to 2016. He was part of the creation for the pieces "IZM", "Evolution" and "Music Creates Opportunity".
NOSB has been working as dance instructor with kids of all ages for over 10 years, teaching in more than 400 school across Canada. He believes that sharing and inspiring others to learn about themselves through art leads to happiness while achieving life goals.
In 2017, Rahime started working with Montreal dance company Tentacle Tribe, having performed with them internationally. He was part of three creations: Threesixnine, Ghost and Prism. Recently he has conceived and built a set design for their latest production Prism.
Born and raised in Hull, Quebec, NOSB is always on the lookout for new opportunities to travel and meet other street dancers. Pursuing his journey around the world, his goal is to find balance in every aspect of life while training and exploring the many different aspects of dance.
Mecdy "Venom" Jean-Pierre
Originally from Montreal/Haiti, Mecdy brings his energetic, athletic, and tribal style internationally. He has represented Canada in various competitions around the world, organized expressive workshops and dance events and won numerous titles to his credit.
Mecdy Jean-Pierre is a choreographer-performer, streetdance teacher specializing in popping and contemporary dance, evolving within the dance community for more than fifteen years. He began his career in streetdance competitions in 2005 and then explored different styles and disciplines, such as contemporary dance, Afro- American dance cultures, drumming, sound healing, sacred geometry, sacred mantras, and meditation.
He is someone who pours his energy and soul into therapeutic dance by expressing his philosophy of life in various intelligent concepts. Not only is he an elite dancer, but an extraordinary mentor who has been promoting the Montreal community since 2005.
His style incorporates a high level of conscious movement where he promotes the reappropriation of the rhythmic body in its anchoring, breath, weight, and alignment.
He has worked with many dance companies such as Cirque du Soleil, Blueprint dance company, Gad fly, We all fall down and Tentacle Tribe. He has also appeared in a few dance films such as Sur le Rhythm, Step up All in and Full Out.
Céline “Easy C” Richard-Robichon
Céline is a multi-disciplinary artist who comes from an extensive background in dance. Born and raised in Ottawa, Céline grew up dancing ballet, jazz, and tap. She moved to Montreal to learn street dances and later to Toronto to grow as a performer. In Toronto, Céline danced
in several Gadfly company productions, along with working on television, movie and music video sets (Family Channel, Nickelodeon etc.). Céline has performed with Quebec music artists like Marie Mai and Eli Rose at the Bell Center, Videotron Center and for Les Francos de Montréal.
Today, Céline is a Tentacle Tribe dancer, a company directed by Emmanuelle LePhan and Elon Hoglund. She also dances for the company Ebnfloh, directed by choreographer Alex “Spicey” Lande. Both companies are touring nationally and internationally.
Céline’s self-directed work intertwines media, movement, and objects. Her most recent piece, oui/ non, was presented by 100lux at Tangente in April 2019. Céline is currently creating with two artist collectives. First, is an Ottawa-based group named Speakeasy which she founded with Vanessa Lovell. She is also part of FRGMNT, a Montreal-based collective with artists Richard Shash’U Aubin, Victoria Mackenzie, Nubian Néné, and Ja James Britton.
Kalliane “Yofidelic” Brémault
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, into a family of musicians, Kalliane is a dancer, choreographer and actor. From age 5, she dove into Hip Hop music, training in Hip Hop, breaking, popping and house, which sparked a long-lasting journey of studying Hip Hop culture, battling, performing, choreographing and teaching. She also formally trained in ballet, modern/contemporary at Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers and The Royal Winnipeg Ballet. In 2017, she moved to Toronto to pursue her career.
Kalliane has worked for top Winnipeg and Toronto street dance companies and crews and has extended her reach through training, battling, teaching and performing internationally. Notably, Kalliane was cast as a lead supporting role/dancer in Netflix movie, Work It, as well as a dancer in Netflix show, Locke and Key, Disney movies Sneakerella and Spin and commercials for Volvo and No Frills. Kalliane continues to work with world-renowned dance companies and artists, namely Tentacle Tribe, Caroline ‘Lady C’ Fraser (Fall For Dance North) and Rebels de la Soul (Breakin’ Convention) as well as in film/TV.
Kalliane strives to gather knowledge and contribute to the cultures who have nurtured and graciously welcomed her. She utilizes art to express herself authentically, exploring dualities such as masculine/feminine/fluidity, dark/light, strong/vulnerable, with the goal to actualize balance. Kalliane shares these intentions and values with everyone who crosses her path with the hopes to uplift each and every present moment.
Anthony “Palomecc” Palomeque
Palomecc is a Hip-Hop artist who brings vibes wherever he goes. Dance has been around him since the day he was born. His family instilled in him his passion for Hip-Hop music and his love for freedom of movement. Palomecc decided he would train to be a professional dancer at a young age. Early on, he learnt various street styles like popping, house, breaking, and locking. He also has some training in ballet and contemporary dance. Palomecc has worked for various companies like Crash & Create, Gadfly, Cirque du Soleil and has television experience . He is a "challenge seeker" who's favorite motto is « always a student - never a master. » Palomecc believes there is always something to learn and continues to work on being the best version of himself. He reps in cyphers, battles, and on stage. Palomecc is in a constant pursuit of more knowledge and is always looking to share the love he has for Hip-Hop culture and his community.
Marie-Reine “MQueen” Kabasha
Inspired by all forms of expression and by naturopathy, Marie-Reine MQueen Kabasha combines her love of movement of all styles and her pleasure of sharing in all her practices. Through freestyle, theater as well as through teaching, each exchange opportunity nourishes her.
Active in the Montreal dance scene since 2013, she had the opportunity to work with creators with a refined and versatile artistic language, many of whom are outstanding figures of urban dance in Montreal and internationally. In 2014 she joined the EBNFLOH company founded by Alexandra Spicey Landé and participates in the creation of Complexe R presented until 2018. She joins also the company Tentacle Tribe in 2016 as an interpreter for Origami Mami, ThreeSixNine and Ghost. These experiences give her the opportunity to perform in several festivals in Europe as well as across Canada. Internationally, she collaborates also with the Parisian waacking collective Ma Dame Paris in 2019. Lately, she works with Brigitte Poupart on the multidisciplinary production Until we die, with Big Pony for the creation Parcours, with Sébastien Provencher on Children of Chemistry, with Helen Simard in Papillon as a replacement and with Caroline Laurin- Beaucage by participating in the adaptation of her solo Habiter mes mémoires transmitted to 8 female dancers.
In parallel, she nurtures a growing interest in research and creation. She presented, in co-creation with Christina Paquette, TNM in 2013 at the Urban Dance Festival 100Lux and Orbite in 2018 as part of the OFFta festival. She is now involved in her own artistic language via a research named “Trigger Point”. This first personal work is mostly based on improvisation in relation to external triggers, particularly music. She goes further with this concept by tuning in to internal and intimate movements. She also continues to teach punctually and to collaborate with artists who inspires her.
Samuel “Mass” Cyr
Samuel Cyr Aka bboy Mass discovered breaking when he was 12 years old. Since his debut, he has competed in countless battles in Quebec and around the world to evolve his breaking style and technique.
In the last few years, Samuel was featured on Révolution, a televised dance competition series. This experience gave him the opportunity to explore different aspects of stage performance. Samuel is currently dancing in various productions with Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Éloize, and Révolution en tournée.