We can't believe the 2024 edition of the Nous Sommes l'Été labs is already over. The past two weeks have been marked by abundance, collaboration, originality, joy and authenticity, and we are so grateful to have shared them with you. We would like to sincerely thank everyone who made this year's labs possible:
The invited experts: Marie-Michelle Darveau, Lucy Fandel, Stefania Skoryna, Alexandre Morin , Mayra Morales, Ariane Voineau, Sylvie Tourangeau
The mentors: Caroline Simonis and Georges-Nicolas Tremblay
The NSL team: Stefania Skoryna, Lucy Fandel, Elizabeth Crispo and Chloe Hart
The audiovisual team: Michel De Silva, Tanya Omelchuk and Elias Djemil-Matassov
Our partners: Conseil des arts de Montréal, Canada Council for the Arts, Maison pour la danse de Québec and Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique
The creator of NSL: Alexis Trépanier
We hope you've been able to make the most of this space for meeting, creating and sharing. Your experiences can always help us develop new ways of being together, whether through exploratory activities, artistic creations or topics for discussion. If you have any comments about the 2024 edition, please let us know.
If you enjoyed your experience with us and are in a position to make a donation, we'd be very grateful for your support. Your encouragement helps ensure the organization's sustainability, the development of new programs to support emerging artists, and the establishment of future creative laboratories.
We look forward to hearing from you.
With love and solidarity,
Stefania, Lucy, Elizabeth and Chloe
Montreal: July 15th to 18th 2024
Quebec City: July 22nd to 24th 2024
New to the NSL labs? Here's what to expect:
The summer lab of Nous Sommes L’Été is truly a summer camp for professional movement artists. It is a gathering of artists that constitutes a real hive in which you are invited to create, exchange, and experiment with people who share or complement your curiosity and your creative desires. The labs are organized by our teams in Montreal and Quebec and are based on the principles of
generous listening
conversations
and accessible spaces.
For the Nous Sommes l'Été 2024 labs, we're offering a slightly different format. In the past, our team has operated primarily on a volunteer basis. This year, we want to prioritize appropriate compensation for our team to ensure their health and the sustainability of the organization, while honouring our commitment to the dance communities of Montreal and Quebec City.
As always, there will be three types of activities: workshops, creation groups and hive activities. It will still be possible to take on various roles within the processes (e.g. performer, choreographer, outside eye, dramaturge, etc.).
However, this year, there will be single 3-hour blocks, rather than periods of activities that follow one another throughout the week. Every day will be different! The descriptions of these experiments will not be published in advance, so we invite you to jump in and take the risk of discovering new approaches together.
NSL usually holds spring meetings to find out about the interests, desires and creative needs of artists interested in participating. This allows us to tailor workshops and mentoring to address your current artistic desires. This year, our listening period will take another form: a short survey! Our goal is the same: to bring to light your diverse and current artistic learning needs and desires.
It's already the end of the 2022 NSL Summer Labs!
It was a pleasure to exchange with you in Quebec City and Montreal during the matchmaking discussion, your creative processes and the workshops and hives. We would like to thank you for your commitment at every step of this adventure!
We enjoy your feedbacks!
Don't hesitate to contact us at nous@lete.ca if you have any feedback on your experience with us this summer. Your comments and suggestions are valuable to us. They help us improve the labs and make sure they respond to your needs years after years.
We would like to underline the implication of our partners for the making of the 2022 summer labs. A big thank you to Conseil des Arts de Montréal and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec ; the Maison pour la danse de Québec and l'Université du Québec à Montréal ; as well as café Joe Cool in Quebec City. Finally, thank you, the participants.
The NSL Team wishes you a wonderful end to your summer! We look forward to see you in 2023 for a next edition!
The summer laboratories of NSL are back for 2022!
There will be two components to the labs this year:
Creation groups: a steady group of participants that explores a creative idea together in studio, led by an instigator, or group leader. Groups will be determined by lab organizers before the lab begins, based on participants’ common interests.
Activities: weekly events open to all lab participants, including drop-ins, ranging from workshops, to discussions, to bike rides and picnics!
Meetings with participating artists take place from May 1st to May 31st, 2022 inclusively.
The cost of participation will be announced shortly. Filling out the google form does not commit you to anything.