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Lila Geneix

Credit : Jeanne Tétreault

Lila Geneix is a French contemporary dance choreographer and performer based in Tiohtià/Montreal. A graduate of UQAM (2020) and recipient of the David Kilburn Award (2022), she develops a feminist choreographic practice at the intersection of visual art, performance, and dance. A versatile artist, she moves between different creative contexts, from traditional stage work to site-specific interventions and multidisciplinary collaborations.

Since moving to Quebec, she has collaborated notably with Sarah Dell’Ava, Emmanuel Jouthe, Katia-Marie Germain, Danièle Desnoyers, Grand Poney Company, and Tamara Cubas, and has been involved in the archiving of several creative processes.

Her first creation, Conjurer la (S)Cène (2022), is part of a triptych exploring the act of setting the table. In 2024, she co-created the public artwork Éc(h)o: passage du vivant at the Panama REM station and continues her research toward a new stage project.

Conjurer la (S)Cène

Conjuring up a new poetic narrative of Christ’s last supper, Conjurer la (S)Cène is a surrealist dance fresco that comes to life in the public space or in a theater.

In a contemplative ritual, two women indulge in a strange decorum where playfulness and seduction are combined. Perched on high heels, on a moving playground, they play with etiquette and paint a sometimes mutant, sometimes hermetic painting and sometimes both. The bodies are crossed by an invisible force that defines their relationships and interactions. In this merry-go-round, the audience becomes a voyeur of this last (S)Cène.

Credit : Daphney Bradette

Performers : Adèle Morissette & Alice Marroquin-Éthier

Abracadabra

New choreographic research around anagogical constituents transposed in such a way that a new place emerges: the labyrinth. A fresco, or even a bas-relief expressing the flexibility between two illusions which is now called Abracadabra. Slowly, the performers cross this mirage, sculpt it and forge it, in order to shape this playground in a different way. The absurdity of the scenes that emerge questions our anthropological relationship to the notion of ritual.

Credit : Luc Senecal

Performer : Alice Marroquin-Éthier