NOVEMBER ARTISTS IN RESIDENCY
Jacinte Armstrong and Monelle Doiron will be in an artistic residency from November 11 to 21, 2025, where they will collaborate on new dance and performance projects. During their stay, they will offer movement workshops, and they invite residents to join them at the Rendez-vous de la Baie to explore movement or just to say hello. Everyone is welcome. Details to follow.
Jacinte Armstrong is an Acadian artist based in K'jipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her work explores embodied practice through performance, choreography, collaboration, and curating. She communicates the experience of the body in relation to objects, materials, environment, technology, and people. Her choreographies range from the intimate and imaginary to large-scale collaborations with dancers, architects, visual artists, radio producers, filmmakers, theatre creators, computer programmers, and musicians. Jacinte holds a Master of Fine Arts in Performance from NSCAD University and is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CMA).
Monelle Doiron, a contemporary dance artist, is originally from Rang-St-Georges in New Brunswick. She studied Dramatic Arts at the Université de Moncton before completing her Bachelor's degree in Contemporary Dance at the Université du Québec à Montréal. In 2015, she founded the collective Les Drôles de Moineaux (The Funny Sparrows) with her life and creation partner, visual artist Denis Lanteigne. Collaborative creation is at the heart of her practice. She explores performance, choreography, and videodance. In 2022, she received the Éloizes award in the Dance/Circus Arts Artist of the Year category for the choreographic exploration in videodance Les oiseaux (The Birds).
Jacinte Armstrong est une artiste acadienne basée à K’jipuktuk/Halifax, en Nouvelle-Écosse. Son travail explore la pratique incarnée à travers la performance, la chorégraphie, la collaboration et le commissariat. Elle communique l’expérience du corps en relation avec les objets, les matériaux, l’environnement, la technologie et les personnes. Ses chorégraphies vont de l’intime et de l’imaginaire à des collaborations à grande échelle avec des danseur-euses, des architectes, des artistes visuel-les, des producteur-rices de radio, des cinéastes, des créateur-rices de théâtre, des programmeur-euses informatiques et des musicien-nes. Jacinte est titulaire d’une maîtrise en beaux-arts en performance de l’Université NSCAD et est certifiée analyste du mouvement Laban (CMA).