The Dancers
The Dancers
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.
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 "Mystic Rootz" 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.
Amara Barner
Amara Barner is a BIPOC, multidisciplinary artist from Minnesota, who currently resides in Montreal, Quebec. As a teenager she traveled as an assistant to the choreographers of The Pulse On Tour, Intrigue Dance Intensive, as well as Emma Portner. Among these opportunities for professional development, Amara was granted opportunities to perform and teach at workshops in Australia, Mexico, England, and Italy. After moving to New York City at 16, Amara trained locally and worked commercially, such as dancing backup for Sia on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. At 18 years old, Barner was the youngest dancer ever hired for Montreal dance company, RUBBERBAND. She performed and toured internationally with the company from 2016-2021 in the show Vic’s Mix, as well as the premiere and following international tours of Ever So Slightly. Amara went on to perform the works of artists such as Anne Plamondon, Dana Gingras, and Elon Höglund. Barner’s versatility allows her to work in both the concert dance realm as well as the commercial circuit. She performed in the Quebec version of The Masked Singer in seasons one and two, as well as in music videos such as La Force’s All That I Am, Aisha Bahdru’s Lazy River, Dominique Fils-Aimé’s Mind at Ease, and Make Believe by sickxsense. Amara was featured in Dance Magazine’s July 2020 issue as an artist “On The Rise “, and was also interviewed for the podcast Artistic Roots, and the digital magazine Black Lights. Amara presented her first multidisciplinary solo entitled “mongrel” in 2021 and later adapted it for gallery exhibition in 2022 while studying Fibres and Material Practices at Concordia University. She premiered an immersive stage version in March of 2024 at Tangente’s LABdiff 2. Amara was also the recipient of the Emerging Artist prize from Festival Quartiers Danses in 2023 for her multidisciplinary work The Songbird Dreams of Singing, featuring a massive bird’s nest, hand-crafted by Amara. Barner is currently a faculty member at USA dance conventions, Intrigue Dance Intensive and Luminous. She is also a contemporary dance instructor at Danse à la carte in Montreal, where she shares her personally developed movement practice, Soft Chaos.
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.
Valmont “Ignite”Harnois
Valmont “Ignite” Harnois is a Montreal dance artist who specializes in Popping and contemporary dance. Finishing his bachelor’s in dance, his creative process lies in interdisciplinarity, and the place of street dance within stage work. He works with various choreographers and artists such as Martin Messier, Simon Ampleman, Handy “HYA” Hyacinthe, Elon Hoglünd, Philippe Boutin and Rebecca Lazier.
Victoria “LaYoncé” Côté Péléja
Born in the San Mateo area of San Francisco, Victoria Côté Péléja grew up primarily in Quebec. Having worked in the performing arts since childhood, she practiced hip-hop for over ten years before completing a higher education program in contemporary dance at L’École de danse de Québec (2018-2021). Passionate and dedicated, this multidisciplinary movement artist continually hones her skills through ongoing training, particularly in street dance.
As a performer, Victoria Côté Péléja’s journey is remarkable. She has collaborated with well-known companies both in Quebec and internationally, such as Tentacle Tribe, Fleuve | Espace danse, Alan Lake Factory, Le fils d’Adrien danse, Danse K par K, Le Crue, Flip Fabrique, and Cirque du Soleil. She has also taken on various roles as a movement advisor, assistant choreographer, outside eye, and stylist in stage productions.
Driven by the desire to express herself and define her identity as an artist, she began researching and creating in freestyle hip-hop with projects like HHSPCFX in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), LISA at Salon58 in collaboration with La Rotonde in Marsoui (Gaspésie), and ONIONMAN during a research residency at the Centre chorégraphique national de Nantes (CCNN). She will continue her research in Paris with support from Groupe Danse Partout, the Atelier de Paris, and the Fonds régional pour les talents émergents (FoRTE) in fall 2024. She will be welcomed for a residency at Charpente des Fauves as part of their first multidisciplinary program in early 2025. Additionally, the CCNN has invited her back in May 2025 to refine her solo ONIONMAN and will feature an excerpt during the HipOpsession festival.
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.
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.