Citadel Dance Exchange

Brice Noeser developed a fascination for poetry and the playful potential of words from an early age in France. Having learned several languages, notably while living in the Caribbean for a few years, he pursued contemporary dance training in parallel. He completed his studies at the École de danse de Québec after immigrating to Canada at the age of 16. Shaped by his adaptation to a new culture, his choreographic approach explores the pursuit of freedom within constraints. His pieces have toured in Quebec, as well as in Mexico, France, and Spain. Since 2025, Brice Noeser is developing a new research and creation project called Espaces d’espèces, exploring how thoughts manifest in the body. 

Dance artist Katie Ward works from the traditional unceded territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe nations. She draws from the inner world of the self and an experience of change connected to the world. Her works contain non-linear assemblages of forms, entities and rhythms, from score-led dance. In her work, audience-performer relationships are not static – inviting a lively spectatorship.

She has developed multiple stage dance performances, a spectator-led performance, and a radio performance. Katie offers workshops, practice sharing and mentoring situations. Katie has presented her work in the UK, France, the USA, Québec and across Canada.

With Marie Claire Forté, Katie is developing a practice sharing that actualises dancer’s ever-changing embodied imagination – for dancing that continually forms and re-forms itself. Katie holds a Master of Theatre Practices from Artez University, in Arnhem, Netherlands.