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Les Labos eXplo: Performance Laboratory
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Between 12 PM and 4 PM
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407 Saint-Pierre Street
Espace 1
Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2M3
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Discovering human mysteries, one performance at a time.
Les Labos eXplo is a performance platform for emerging artists, rooted in accessibility and kindness. It recognizes the importance of interdisciplinarity, sharing, and the power of coming together to face the outside world. With a mission to support and uplift the next generation, these labs serve as a springboard for lesser-known artists, highlighting innovative ideas that sometimes struggle to find a place in contemporary programming.
Divided into three labs—creation, performance, and reading—over the course of a year, this platform aims to provide emerging artists with a launchpad, fostering encounters and growth on both an artistic and human level.
After a month of mentorship with Marilyn Daoust, artists Pauline Benguigui and Anthony L’Heureux will take over the spaces at PHI (407 Saint-Pierre Street) for the second edition of the Performance Lab.
THE ARTISTS
Photo: Morgane Guillou
Anthony L'Heureux
ARTIST
JE NE DORS JAMAIS is a solo performance by Anthony L'Heureux that explores the violences inflicted upon us—and those we inflict upon ourselves over the course of a day — or a lifetime.
The piece delves into social,
physical,
psychological, and
emotional exhaustion,
as well as performance,
expectations (both societal and self-imposed), and
appearances.
It critiques the relentless pace of life that leads to both human and artistic burnout.
Pauline Benguigui
AUTHOR | DIRECTOR
Le Syndrome du Gisant explores Pauline’s Jewish-Arab heritage and the memory tensions surrounding it today. Inspired by the myth of the Golem, the performance stages a mute and blind creature, born from a pool of clay in the heart of a ruined world. In a surge of reconstruction, it transforms its environment without perceiving the consequences. Only when it finally opens its eyes does it realize—too late—the full extent of what it has shaped. Through this mythical figure, the performance questions collective memory, the transmission of narratives in Judaism, and the repetition of cycles of destruction.
Sound design: Samuel Guay.
Photo: Julie Artacho
Marilyn Daoust
MENTOR
Marilyn Daoust is a performer and creator working in dance, theatre, and everything in between. A graduate in dance performance from UQAM (2011), she now works as both a dancer and an actress, depending on the project. She has collaborated with Manon Oligny, Louise Bédard, Angela Konrad, Julie Artacho, Jean-François Guilbault, Jessica Poirier-Chang, Marie Béland, Liliane Moussa, Théâtre I.N.K., Julien Blais, Daina Ashbee, Lucie Grégoire, and Cirque du Soleil.
She co-founded Mille feux and created the interdisciplinary works Le temps des fruits (selected for the RIDEAU National Selection in 2022 and 2023, with a Québec tour from 2022 to 2024) and L du Déluge, a production featuring 12 performers on stage and 16 collaborators (Théâtre La Chapelle, 2022). She also co-created Material Relations with Anna Stamp in Aarhus and Copenhagen (Denmark, 2020 and 2021). She had the honor of being the Québec artist selected for a two-month residency between Bassano del Grappa (Italy) and Montreal, supported by CALQ, Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique, and the Centro per la Scena Contemporanea.
As an “accueil de luxe” artist at Théâtre Aux Écuries (2023-2025), she will present the piece Entre nous sommes pris entre nous from April 15 to 26, 2025.
Since 2016, Marilyn has also choreographed 24 commissioned works for theatre, including Une vie intelligente at Théâtre Duceppe (2025), Je t’écris au milieu d’un bel orage (2023-2024) and Le Misanthrope (2024) at Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, and Iphigénie at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier (2024).
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