Lília Mestre

Lília Mestre (she/her) is a Portuguese performing artist, dramaturge, and researcher based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. Her work explores collaborative formats in contemporary dance and choreography, using scores, intersubjective set-ups, and chance-induced processes as artistic and pedagogical tools. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Contemporary Dance at Concordia University and co-director of the Performing Arts Research Cluster (LePARC) at the MILIEUX Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology. Her research focuses on alternative modes of organisation and study as a means of social and political reflection. Lília was awarded the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award (2023) for her project Through Materialities…, and currently leads Keep in Touch! Critical Embodiments for Possible Future(s) (2025–2028), supported by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec.