Collaborations
J.Satinée & S.Désilier
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Delegated production since 2025
Originally from Montreal, Stacey & Satinée have developed in the dance world in similar ways, though each has followed her own path. Stacey grew up on the North Shore, while Satinée trained on the South Shore. Both began their movement journey through Hip Hop culture, while also exploring circus arts and trampoline.
Their first encounter was at a Hip Hop competition, and they crossed paths again during auditions for the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal in 2009. Even then, a strange connection united them. By chance, they ran into each other again at the Acrosport Barani Trampoline Club, further deepening that sense of familiarity.
Satinée joined the preparatory program at the dance school in 2009 but left in 2011 to enter the commercial dance scene. Stacey, meanwhile, enrolled at the school in 2011.
It was in 2012 that the real magic happened: Satinée returned to the school and joined Stacey’s cohort. Their bond became undeniable. Nicknamed the “Twins in Black”, they developed a Chosen Family connection — a relationship that grew stronger through the years they spent studying and quite literally living together.
Reflecting each other, they honed their individual contemporary dance practices, exploring both their similarities and differences to shape their artistic identities. After graduating in 2014, they launched their careers as performers, collaborating with many choreographers from Montreal.
For over a decade, they worked on separate projects, but the desire to create together eventually took hold. That’s how Braids & Heritage was born — an artistic space where they explore their shared visions of art and identity within the dance world. Their collective research began with photography and fashion, eventually returning to their first love: dance.
Artistic intent
From this subjective encounter, Jossua Satinée & Stacey Désilier develop a connection between their creative visions and a shared artistic language. The intersection of their physical and aesthetic experiences becomes the exhilarating core of their identities and their heritages. Together, they create works where the body, community, and the art of photography interweave their ideas to question dominant representations. The reality of reclamation grounds their ethical values and unfolds within their creative spaces. This exchange stems from a need and an intimate quest for an undeniable kinship in order to survive within the artistic world.
As racialized artists born in Quebec, a political pursuit is fundamental to their artistic approach. Satinée & Stacey celebrate their journeys through urban dance to elevate their unique choices in clothing and sound to craft a mixed, distinctive stage presence. This delightful communion celebrates popular dance cultures, personal archives, performance, and studio practices. From this invaluable friendship, humor, tenderness, and embodied charisma coexist with resistance and acceptance.
As performers and choreographers, the duo advocates for a non-hierarchical approach to technical roles, including their collaborators. Technique intersects with task-sharing to cultivate curiosity, allowing cohesion and knowledge transmission. Diasporic heritages and personal stories are at the heart of this first collaborative work.
This creation highlights the ongoing process of desiring transformation in order to survive the pressures that pass through us. Metamorphosis and intimacy become political, revealing vulnerability that transforms into strength.
Satinée & Stacey use the stage as a space of gathering and friction, underlining the reality of unceded territories. They honor their resilience and their presence through their physical discipline and artistic choices.