My First Biennale
To encourage emerging artists and companies as well as diversity, My First Biennale offers six artists and/or companies who are participating in the CINARS Biennale for the first time an opportunity to learn more about the nuts and bolts of international markets.
These companies receive a training session prior to the event, a registration badge, a space in the collective booth located in the exhibition hall, and one hour of coaching after the event.
Come meet these new professionals at the My First Biennale collective booth #229.
Project organized in partnership with DAM (Diversité artistique Montréal) and ELAN (English-Language Arts Network).
Project sponsored by La Caisse de la culture Desjardins

Sandy Bessette
Co-Artistic Director
La marche du crabe
Canada (Quebec)
Trained in contemporary dance, Sandy Bessette specializes in creation for early childhood in Europe. She creates four shows for toddlers and different performances in situ combining circus, theater, music and singing. Interested in meeting with others, she advocates a sensory approach of proximity, nourishing imagination and curiosity.

Emie-Liza Caron St-Pierre
Operations and development director
Fleuve | Espace Danse
Canada (Quebec)
With a Bachelor’s degree in marketing and communications, Emie-Liza now works for the development of the contemporary dance company Fleuve | Espace danse. As a world traveler and dancer for 16 years, she looks forward to bringing the company to its full potential and is always seeking for new growth opportunities.

Anne-Flore De Rochambeau
Choreographer
Anne-Flore De Rochambeau
Canada (Quebec)
Anne-Flore de Rochambeau evolves as a performer and choreographer on Montreal scenes since 2013. Exploring the social nature of the individual, her compositions reflect unconscious mechanisms that characterize our interactions. Investing space with a refined aesthetic, she proposes an organic and intuitive language to awaken a sensory relationship with the audience.

Farah Fancy
Co-Founder
Le Groupe Herencias
Canada (Quebec)
Farah Fancy is an artist, director, cultural worker, consultant and co-founder of Le Groupe Herencias, focusing on multidisciplinary performance to inspire and create more inclusive societies through the promotion, exchange, and acceptance of identity, culture and heritage.

Julien-Robert Legault Salvail
Co-Artistic Director
Video Phase
Canada (Quebec)
Video Phase is the result of the collaboration between two musicians creators, Julien-Robert and Julien Compagne. They’re using technology to develop a new kind of art that equally combines music and images. On stage, they mix together percussions, electronics and interactive videos to create for the audience an immersive visual experience.

Andrea Peña
Choreographer & Artistic Director
Andrea Peña & Artists
Canada (Quebec)
Andrea Peña a Colombian multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal, founded dance company Andrea Peña & Artists in 2014. Recognized within Canada and internationally the company is supported by various international festivals and residencies abroad. Her works are focused on the creation of critical, alternative and spatial universes that question the individual within society.