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The program
BIG BANG
A program that supports artists in deepening their artistic maturity and shaping a distinct movement language.
Each program includes approximately 300 hours of training over 10 weeks. Each week offers close to 30 hours of technical classes, workshops, and creative laboratories, scheduled from Monday to Friday. The programs are directed and developed by Stéphanie Decourteille and the Big Bang Danse.
MISSION
To support artists in building solid technical tools in dance, developing a refined listening to their bodies, and cultivating an authentic freedom to create.
The BIG BANG team aims to help each artist build a strong technical foundation in dance, while exploring a wide range of artistic, cultural, and cross-disciplinary perspectives on the moving body. Through discovery and technical challenges, artists are invited to push themselves further, deepen body awareness—of strength, capacity, sensation, and emotion—and refine their physical skills. Throughout the program, an ongoing search for authenticity is encouraged, opening the door to genuine creative freedom. Supported by dialogue, reflection, and personalized mentorship, each artist develops artistic maturity and a distinct movement language.
CARE
Nurturing a culture of care that creates trust—inviting audacity, exploration, and artistic freedom.
Care is a foundational value of Stéphanie Decourteille’s teaching approach and of the program. It supports artists in an environment where they can take creative risks, be vulnerable, and work freely. This spirit of care must be carried by everyone in the cohort to ensure a respectful, supportive, and balanced space for each person.
COMMITMENT
Fully committing, together, to a rigorous and transformative artistic journey.
Commitment is central to the program. The teaching team shows up fully to share their expertise and guide artists through their process of research, reflection, and creation—with steady presence, deep listening, and personalized support. In return, we expect artists to bring wholehearted involvement, because full commitment is key to making the most of this experience.
Registration fees (2026)
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Canadian artists who are members of the RQD may be eligible for the Dance Training Support Program. Canadian artists can also apply for professional development funding through the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) and/or the Canada Council for the Arts.
PAYMENT METHODS
Option 1 - Pay in 4 instalments
$710 due by December 15, 2025
$710 due by March 2, 2026
$710 due by April 2, 2026
$710 due by May 2, 2026
Option 2 - Pay in 2 instalments
$710 due by December 15, 2025
$2,130 due by March 2, 2026
Option 3 - Pay in 1 instalment
$2,840 due by December 15, 2026
REGISTRATION FEES
PROGRAM #17
$2,840 (CAD) taxes included
(2027 registration fees to be announced soon)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
To strengthen and deepen your contemporary dance practice
Through contemporary dance technique classes and workshops in floorwork, partnering, improvisation, contemporary ballet barre, and acro-dance, artists develop their technical skills and refine their relationship to movement. Throughout the program, Stéphanie Decourteille and guest teachers support each artist in this process, allowing everyone to build a technical progression adapted to their individual background and path.
CREATION
To explore, question, and shape a distinct artistic voice.
Guided by personalized mentorship, a collective creative dynamic, and research labs, artists commit—over the three months of the program—to an artistic and choreographic research process. Open studio access on Sundays supports individual exploration and development. This journey culminates in a public showing of a first stage of each artist’s solo work. At the end of the program, each artist receives a video recording and photos of their solo.
EXPLORATION
Opening up to new approaches and feeding artistic research.
Through workshops led by guest artists recognized for their expertise, participants are introduced to a wide range of artistic and cultural approaches (afro dance, hip-hop, breaking, krump, theatre, electro, house, and more). This track encourages cross-disciplinary exchange and directly informs the solo creation process.
Solo Work-in-Progress Excerpts
Teaching Team & Guest Artists
The teaching team evolves from one edition to the next, based on each program’s artistic direction. The list below features the instructors and guest artists from Program #17.
ARTISTIC & PEDAGOGICAL DIRECTION
Stéphanie Decourteille ↗
ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTION
Stéphane Casta
ARTISTIC COORDINATION
& PEDAGOGICAL ASSISTANT
Jacynthe Desjardins
Joshua Yates
CONTEMPORARY DANCE
Adèle Ross
Daniela Jezerinac
Hélène Remoué
Stéphanie Decourteille
CONTACT IMPROVISATION & PARTNERING
Ciro Melgaço
Stéphanie Decourteille
ACRO-DANSE & ACROBATICS
Vincent Jutras
FLOORWORK
Stéphanie Decourteille
AXIS SYLLABUS
Kerwin Barrington
CAPOEIRA
Mestre Peninha
ARTISTIC MENTORSHIP
& CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Stéphanie Decourteille
HIP HOP FREESTYLE
Jaleesa Coligny
THÉÂTRE & PERFORMANCE
Sarah Leblanc
HAND BALANCING
Christophe Bétournay
FLYING LOW
Peter Jasko
MULTIDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOPS
Amara Barner
HOUSE
Dominique Sophie
CLOWN
Soléne Laurin-Laliberté
CONTACT IMPRO
Andrea Muniz
Stéphanie Decourteille
WAAKING
Lyzat
MOUVEMENT PRACTICE
Toufic Geagea
VENTRICULE GAUCHE WORKSHOP
Lyzat & Lamont
DRAMATURGY
Julianne Decerf
CREATION WORKSHOPS
Adèle Ross & Joshua Yates
Stéphanie Decourteille
Fanny Bélanger Poulin
BODY MIND SOUL FLOW
Mystic Rootz
BREAKING
Kate Lynx
DEPTH MOVEMENT
Edivaldo Ernesto
BIOGRAPHY & ARTISTIC APPROACH
Maud Mazo-Rothenbülher
LIGHTING CREATION SUPPORT
Bastian A. Miranda
PHOTO LAB
Marion Chuinaud
Ruben Naranjo