06/05/2026
đ€ CONSENT-BASED CONTACT PRACTICE â with Ă Corps Consentants
Before we share weight, we share consent. What becomes possible when touch is something you choose â fully, and on your own terms?
Weâre so glad to welcome Ă Corps Consentants â Caro & Cachou â to the floor at ARCS 2026. Their workshop is a somatic, feminist-Queer, trauma-sensitive practice for exploring touch and consent â and that evening, a chosen-mixity jam to carry it into the dance.
Caro & Cachou have facilitated consent and conscious intimacy since 2019, here in Tiohtià :ke / Montréal.
This is just one of 24 workshops over twelve days, with 20+ devoted teachers from Montréal, across Canada, and beyond. Come study with us.
đ Tuesday, June 9
Practice 2:00 â 5:00 PM
Chosen-Mixity Jam 7:00 â 9:00 PM
đ Proto Studio · Mile End, MontrĂ©al
đ Register + full programme â link in bio or our Linktree .collectives
https://arcscifestivalmtl2026.com/ -acorps
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đ€ RĂAPPROPRIATION DU TOUCHER ET CONSENTEMENT â avec Ă Corps Consentants
Avant de partager le poids, on partage le consentement. Quâest-ce qui devient possible quand le toucher est quelque chose que tu choisis â pleinement, et selon tes propres termes?
Quel bonheur dâaccueillir Ă Corps Consentants â Caro & Cachou â sur le plancher Ă ARCS 2026. Leur atelier est une pratique somatique, fĂ©ministe-Queer et sensible au trauma pour explorer le toucher et le consentement â suivi ce soir-lĂ dâun jam en mixitĂ© choisie pour lâamener dans la danse.
Caro & Cachou facilitent le consentement et lâintimitĂ© consciente depuis 2019, ici Ă TiohtiĂ :ke / MontrĂ©al.
Ce nâest quâun des 24 ateliers sur douze jours, avec plus de 20 enseignant·e·s dĂ©voué·e·s de MontrĂ©al, du Canada et dâailleurs. Viens Ă©tudier avec nous.
đ Mardi 9 juin
· Pratique 14h â 17h
· Jam en mixitĂ© choisie 19h â 21h
đ Proto Studio · Mile End, MontrĂ©al
đ Inscription + programme complet â lien dans notre le bio ou Linktree .collectives
https://arcscifestivalmtl2026.com/ -acorps
06/05/2026
đ€ THE POWER OF THREE â with Avery Fitzgerald
You know the duet â the weight, the listening, the rhythm of moving with one other body. But what happens when the duet becomes a trio?
Weâre so honoured to welcome Avery Fitzgerald as one of our invited teachers at ARCS 2026 Contact Improvisation Pre-Summer Festival,travelling all the way from lÉkÌÊ·ÉĆÉn (Lekwungen) territory · Victoria to be with us on the floor. In this workshop she brings the duet into the layered world of three: staying connected as the conversation expands, learning what it means to be the bridge between others.
Avery is an Associate Somatic Movement Professional drawing on Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, and Body-Mind Centering.
This is just one of 24 workshops over twelve days, with 20+ devoted teachers from across Canada and beyond. Come study with us.
đ Tuesday, June 9
9:30 AM â 12:30 PM
đ Proto Studio · Mile End, MontrĂ©al
đ Register + full programme â link in bio and Linktree
https://arcscifestivalmtl2026.com/ -avery
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đ€ LA PUISSANCE DU TRIO â avec Avery Fitzgerald
Tu connais le duo â le poids, lâĂ©coute, le rythme de bouger avec un autre corps. Mais quâest-ce qui se passe quand le duo devient un trio?
Câest un honneur dâaccueillir Avery Fitzgerald parmi nos enseignant·e·s invité·e·s Ă ARCS 2026 â venue de loin, du territoire lÉkÌÊ·ÉĆÉn (Lekwungen) · Victoria, pour ĂȘtre avec nous sur le plancher. Dans cet atelier, elle amĂšne le duo dans le monde stratifiĂ© du trio : rester relié·e tandis que la conversation sâĂ©largit, dĂ©couvrir ce que veut dire ĂȘtre le pont entre les autres.
Avery (elle) est une professionnelle associĂ©e du mouvement somatique nourrie par le Contact Improvisation, lâAuthentic Movement et le Body-Mind Centering.
Ce nâest quâun des 24 ateliers sur douze jours, avec plus de 20 enseignant·e·s dĂ©voué·e·s venu·e·s de partout au Canada et au-delĂ . Viens Ă©tudier avec nous.
đ Mardi 9 juin · 9h30 â 12h30 · IntermĂ©diaire · Dynamique
đ Proto Studio · Mile End, MontrĂ©al
đ Inscription + programme complet â lien dans notre Linktree
06/04/2026
Twenty devoted teachers. One floor. Twelve days. đ€
This June, ARCS CONTACT IMPROVISATION PRE-SUMMER FESTIVAL 2026 MONTREAL gathers the people who make Contact Improvisation in MontrĂ©al and beyond what it is â twenty invited teachers and artists, holding one room together in shared leadership.
Swipe to meet them, in order of appearance â from the first morning Shake to the closing masterclass. Twelve days of deep, devoted study on one floor. No body refused for lack of funds.
đ Proto Studio · 5333 Casgrain, Studio 1107 · Mile End, MontrĂ©al
đ June 6â18, 2026
Full programme + registration â link in bio / Linktree .collectives
https://arcscifestivalmtl2026.com
Meet your teachers â tag them all đ
Mel Sirois
Valerie Sabbah
BenoĂźt Lachambre
Lalaina Ravelojaona
Avery Fitzgerald
Ă Corps Consentants - ĂCC
Tanya Williams
Saule Ikigai
Cam Novak
Vincent-Nicolas Provencher .nicolas.pro Andrea Muñiz
Kristen Lewis
Emanuel Guay
Niku Dhillon
Nico Couto
Shanthi Minor
Arash Khakpour
Neta Peleg Ginzburg .pg
See you on the dance floor âš
MileEnd MomentCollectives ARCS2026 dance improvisation somatics
06/03/2026
There is a difference between hearing and listening.
Lalaina Ravelojaona opens the Monday evening of the ARCS 2026 Contact Improvisation Pre-Summer Festival with the Echo-Location Focus Jam â a deep-listening practice where no sound is passive.
Hearing just happens to us; listening is active â decoding a sound to understand where it comes from, what it is, and what follows.
In this room, every sound is co-written by the one who sends it and the one who receives it. Come tune your whole body toward the dance and the soundscape we make together. All levels welcome. đ€
đ Monday, June 8 · 7:00 â 9:00 PM
đ Proto Studio · 5333 Casgrain, Mile End
Full programme + registration â tap the Linktree in our .collectives bio and go to the ARCS website.
https://arcscifestivalmtl2026.com/ -lalaina-echo
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Il y a une différence entre entendre et écouter.
Lalaina Ravelojaona ouvre la soirĂ©e du festival ARCS le lundi avec le Jam Focus Ăcho-Location â une pratique dâĂ©coute profonde oĂč aucun son nâest passif.
Entendre nous arrive; Ă©couter est actif â dĂ©coder un son pour comprendre dâoĂč il vient, ce quâil est, et ce qui sâensuit. Dans cette salle, chaque son est co-Ă©crit par celui ou celle qui lâĂ©met et celui ou celle qui le reçoit.
Venez accorder tout le corps Ă la danse et au paysage sonore que nous crĂ©ons ensemble. Tous niveaux bienvenus. đ€
đ Lundi 8 juin · 19h â 21h
đ Proto Studio · 5333 Casgrain, Mile End
Programme complet + inscription â le Linktree dans la bio .collectives, puis le site ARCS.
https://arcscifestivalmtl2026.com/ -lalaina-echo
See you on the sound floor âš
06/03/2026
BenoĂźt Lachambre opens The ARCS 2026 Contact Improvisation Pre-Summer festival âš
One of the most influential voices in contemporary dance and improvisation, sharing Parallel and Integrated Manifestations of Polymorphies.
This is a rare chance to study with an artist who has spent decades researching the listening, shapeshifting body â how form arises, dissolves, and reorganizes through sensation. To open twelve days of deep practice on his floor is an honour for our whole community. đ€
đ Monday, June 8 · 2:00 â 5:00 PM
đ Proto Studio · 5333 Casgrain, Mile End
Full programme + registration â tap the Linktree in our .collectives bio and go to the ARCS website.
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BenoĂźt Lachambre ouvre le festival de contact improvisation ARCS 2026.
Lâune des voix les plus influentes de la danse contemporaine et de lâimprovisation, qui partage Parallel and Integrated Manifestations of Polymorphies.
Une occasion rare dâĂ©tudier avec un artiste qui consacre des dĂ©cennies Ă la recherche du corps Ă lâĂ©coute, en perpĂ©tuelle mĂ©tamorphose â comment la forme surgit, se dissout et se rĂ©organise Ă travers la sensation. Ouvrir douze jours de pratique profonde sur son plancher est un honneur pour toute notre communautĂ©. đ€
đ Lundi 8 juin · 14h â 17h
đ Proto Studio · 5333 Casgrain, Mile End
Programme complet + inscription â le Linktree dans la bio .collectives, puis le site ARCS.
See you on the dance floor
06/03/2026
We open the ARCS 2026 Contact Improvisation Pre-Summer festival by coming home to the body.
Before twelve days of falling, lifting, listening â we arrive.
On opening morning Iâm sharing Awakening the C.I. Body: a slow, curious landing into presence, drawing from Body-Mind Centering, Tuning Scores, Material for the Spine, and the Small Dance.
We release what weâve been carrying, reawaken peripheral perception, and find the aliveness that makes Contact Improvisation possible. Think of it as a toolkit you can return to all festival long â to prepare, to reset, to restore.
All bodies. All levels. All abilities. Come ready to move, laugh, sweat, and restore. đ€
đ Monday, June 8 · 9:30 AM â 12:30 PM
đ Proto Studio · 5333 Casgrain, Mile End
Full programme + registration â tap the Linktree in our .collectives bio and go to the ARCS website.
https://arcscifestivalmtl2026.com
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Nous ouvrons le festival en revenant habiter le corps.
Avant douze jours de chutes, de portĂ©s et dâĂ©coute â on arrive. Le matin dâouverture, je partage Ăveiller le corps C.I. : un atterrissage lent et curieux dans la prĂ©sence, inspirĂ© du Body-Mind Centering, des Tuning Scores, du Material for the Spine et de la Small Dance. On libĂšre ce quâon portait, on rĂ©veille la perception pĂ©riphĂ©rique, et on retrouve la vitalitĂ© qui rend le Contact Improvisation possible. Une boĂźte Ă outils Ă retrouver tout au long du festival.
Tou·te·s les corps. Tous niveaux. Toutes capacitĂ©s. Venez prĂȘt·e·s Ă bouger, rire, transpirer et vous ressourcer. đ€
đ Lundi 8 juin · 9h30 â 12h30
đ Proto Studio · 5333 Casgrain, Mile End
Programme complet + inscription â le Linktree dans la bio .collectives, puis le site ARCS.
06/01/2026
â„ AD VIVUM â Opening Night of ARCS 2026 âš
For twelve days this June, ARCS â Linking Our C.I. Practices, Communities & Research â gathers dancers from across TiohtiĂ :ke/MontrĂ©al, across Canada, and from abroad for a Contact Improvisation festival three years in the making. Workshops. Masterclasses. Jams. Performances. A panel. A whole ecosystem of shared body, shared time, shared research.
And it all begins with AD VIVUM â a single, irreplaceable opening night.
An evening of bringing alive.
AD VIVUM gathers six artistic propositions in one room â performances, films, music, voice, and shared body. Each piece is an invitation: to listen, to risk, to be moved.
Together they trace a current â from the intimacy of a single heartbeat, to the wild streets of Mile End, to the layered scores of a collective in research.
Spontaneous compositions. Real time. Real bodies. Real now.
This isnât just a show. Itâs how we open the festival together â artists, dancers, neighbours, strangers â stepping through the same portal at the same moment, into the twelve days that follow.
THE PROGRAM â
â â„ 01 · Close Encounters · Out in the Wild
Valerie Sabbah · Kio.Flo · Ellen Gooch · Avery Fitzgerald + Wild Cards
â â„ 02 · Ariana Duclos · Baroque Songs
â â„ 03 · Kio.Flo · Matters of the Heart
â â„ 04 · Val & Nate · Wishes It Were Alive
â â„ 05 · Field Studies · Scorebook
Emma Anders · Valerie Sabbah · Nathalie Houle · Manole Regnier · Marc-André Fly · Clementine Morrigan
â â„ 06 · Cam Novak · Observations
đ 5:30 PM â Meet & Mingle in the Proto Studio kitchen
đ 6:45 PM â Six pieces, moving through rooms, going outside, guided through
đ Late â AprĂšs-Mingle & late-night jamming together as a community
đ Proto Studio · 5333 Casgrain, Studio 1107
Mile End · Tiohtià :ke / Montréal
đ $10 â $20 sliding scale
â Tickets via the Performance section at arcscifestivalmtl2026.com (recommended)
â Or e-transfer to [email protected] with âAD VIVUMâ in the message
Come witness. Come be witnessed.
Come open the festival with us.
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05/29/2026
What if mornings at ARCS 2026 CI Festival, your daily ritual began with a shake?
Meet Mel Sirois â opening every morning of ARCS with SHAKE.
Shaking is ancient medicine for the spirit â and one of the most efficient and pleasurable ways of improving our overall health. Practiced widely in Brazil, Africa, Japan and beyond, itâs a sacred practice that regulates all of our bodies â physical, mental, emotional, energetic, and spiritual. It helps us ground, release, realign, energize, and return to full presence.
Mel is a MontrĂ©al-based somatic practitioner, facilitator, and movement artist devoted to truth, embodiment, and full self-expression. Trained in Core Energetics, Movement Analysis, and Quantum Human Design, she guides experiences that bring people back into their bodies, their instincts, and their authentic beingness. In 2017, she founded Inner Fire Mouvement â a space for self-expression, courage, and the joy of being fully alive through movement.
⚠Core Energetics Practitioner (CCEP) · Quantum Human Design Specialist · Certified Movement Analyst (CMA)
đ melsirois.com ·
đ Every weekday morning · 8:00â8:45 a.m.
đ ARCS 2026 · June 8-18
For full workshop description and the French version, please visit the festival website â link in bio.
https://arcscifestivalmtl2026.com
đ Et si chaque jour Ă ARCS, votre rituel matinal commençait par un shake ?
Rencontrez Mel Sirois â qui ouvrira chaque matin dâARCS 2026 avec SHAKE.
Le shaking est une mĂ©decine ancienne pour lâesprit â et lâune des maniĂšres les plus efficaces et agrĂ©ables dâamĂ©liorer notre santĂ© globale. PratiquĂ© largement au BrĂ©sil, en Afrique, au Japon et ailleurs, câest une pratique sacrĂ©e qui rĂ©gule tous nos « corps » â physique, mental, Ă©motionnel, Ă©nergĂ©tique et spirituel. Il nous aide Ă nous ancrer, Ă nous libĂ©rer, Ă nous rĂ©aligner, Ă nous Ă©nergiser et Ă retrouver une pleine prĂ©sence.
Qui est Mel ?
Mel est une praticienne somatique, facilitatrice et artiste du mouvement basĂ©e Ă MontrĂ©al, dĂ©vouĂ©e Ă la vĂ©ritĂ©, Ă lâincarnation et Ă la pleine expression de soi. FormĂ©e en Core Energetics, en analyse du mouvement et en Quantum Human Design, elle guide des expĂ©riences qui ramĂšnen