Noel Vezina

Noël Vezina is a queer, interdisciplinary, dance and movement artist based in Montreal (Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang). Largely community-taught, their process is highly intuitive and organic. Approaching performance as a tool to connect deeply, to themselves and to others, their work often takes on ephemeral and intimate forms.

Noël’s accomplishments include: premiering their work tiny angel creatures as part of the Conseil des Art de Montreal’s Ice Breaker program (2024), creating and performing How to say ‘longing’ with Jad Orphée Chami for the 2022 edition of RIPA, presenting Stardust and Parallax with Festival Quartiers Danses (2021), sharing a first version of a cloud, a distance (September 2020), creating We live together now – a video performance presented by Sanskar Festival (August 2020) and Festival Bouge D’ici (March 2021), and their collaboration with A Safer Space, initiated by Nicholas Bellefleur in 2019.

Noël is one sixth of the winning team of the 2021 Dansathon in Liège, recognized for their imagining of ‘the future of dance’ through a new interactive performance experience The Living Room. Noël has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts in research and creation, and has been awarded residencies from CAM, CCOV, Circuit-Est, Studio 303 and MAI.

Alongside their performance projects, Noël organizes Montreal SPURS nights; a Queer line dancing initiative created by Kathleen Munroe and Pat Kiely.

Noël strives to be radically soft, honest and vulnerable. They value not-knowing and never perfecting. To be kind and loving is essential.