Emile Pineault

Emile Pineault is choreographer, performer and curator based in Montréal, first known as Tiohtiá:ke in Kanyen'kéha and Mooniyang in Anishinaabemowin. Through a multidisciplinary practice rooted in body-based research and performance, his work explores desire, sexualities and sensorialities. More specifically, he is investigating the concept of bottommess as it pertains to gay/queer sexuality, but also, more philosophically, as a way of being in relation to the other through vulnerability and the risk of humiliation. He develops choreographies which oscillate between, on the one hand, messiness, clumsiness, and unruliness, and on the other hand, intense textures, exacerbated physicalities and a deep sensuality. He composes his creations like sensory poems and he uses duration and repetition to destabilize the relationship with the audience.