Structure
A WORD FROM THE GENERAL MANAGER
Working at the heart of an innovative structure like Lorganisme is both a constant source of inspiration and a challenge. My role is to design and implement strategies that respond to the profound transformations and uncertainties shaping the dance sector. In recent years, one of our main challenges has been to rethink and develop our business model to ensure Lorganisme’s financial sustainability while preserving the integrity of its founding mission.
This was a balancing act: we had to maintain our close relationship with our core artist members – a central value of our approach – while expanding our services to a broader community of artists. Through strengthened resource-sharing and a team enriched with diverse expertise, Lorganisme has become a resilient and key player, capable of responding with agility to the growing administrative need in our sector.
Guided by our founding members’ values, I am committed to fostering relational leadership, grounded in listening, empathy, and kindness – especially in the face of change. This approach has proven fruitful: in 2020 and 2025, the integration of new artist members brought renewed energy to our structure and led us to explore new artistic horizons. As a result, the company’s productions have embraced a greater diversity of forms and styles, fostering unprecedented collaborations and enriching encounters.
Around the table, our discussions have been both deep and stimulating, revealing a heightened awareness of the issues of diversity, representation, and access to production resources in our field. This dynamic has reinforced our commitment, at our level.
These defining years have generated a strong collective momentum, resulting in projects that benefit a greater number of artists. Thus, Lorganisme’s aspirations – to broaden its reach and become a vibrant hive for artistic exchange – remain as relevant as ever. My commitment to this organization and its artists is fully aligned with this vision.
Sylvie
A WORD FROM THE ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIVE
Since its creation over 15 years ago, Lorganisme established itself as an innovative and unique model within the Quebec and Canadian dance scene. Through its distinctive approach, which prioritizes collectivity over siloed work, and through its vision of resource and knowledge sharing, this organization continues to inspire me daily.
One company, seven choreographers: at the heart of Lorganisme, we form a dynamic and ever-evolving micro-society. Over the years, the company has allowed us to question our practices, rethink our production methods, welcome new members, and expand our services to the community. But above all, it continues to offer us an environment where everyone feels supported by their peers.
Currently embarking on my second term as Artistic Representative of Lorganisme, I am committed to continuing this collaborative vision initiated by my fellow artists from the company’s very beginning. For me, Lorganisme remains first and foremost an incubator of ideas, a space where new models and projects rooted in the dance communities emerge. We owe this vitality to the diversity of practices of its current members – Claudia, Brice, Caroline, Sovann and myself – in addition to the valuable contribution of two other founding members, Anne Thériault and Amélie Rajotte.
Together, we reaffirm the importance of developing more collective models like ours in today’s dance landscape.Let us harness this shared strength to continue imagining dance rooted in its communities, in resonance with the complexities of the current world we navigate as artists and as human beings.
Sébastien Provencher
A WORD FROM THE FOUNDING MEMBERS
The singular vehicle that is Lorganisme has been created in 2010. It was born from the conviction that the single-choreographer organizational model needed to be rethought in a context where the drying up of art funding continues, and, even with the increase of choreographers and talent, support remains frozen. This ongoing dry spell is not strictly a matter of balancing the books: it affects us on a day-to-day basis and has driven us to call upon our last resources. In an era when time for creation is sacrificed to administrative duties, and competitiveness eats away at us and isolates us, we had to imagine a zone of re-enchantment, where other artists would become catalysts again instead of competitors, a space in which the strength of all of us would act as a springboard to inspire each one of us. Lorganisme’s raison d’être is to build up a solidarity that lightens and propels us, ensuring the sustainability and longevity of our practices while enabling each creator to develop a distinct territory and uniqueness. To ensure that creation again becomes the artist’s primary activity and concern, as it should be.
Amélie, Anne and Caroline
