Q1: What inspired you to start a career in bodywork?

A1: In 2017, I was on tour with RUBBERBAND in Mexico. It was an amazing tour. We had so many shows and traveled all around the country. In the second to last city we were in Tijuana. During the dress/tech rehearsal my lower back was starting to send me red flags that something wasn’t right. Soon after I started experiencing radiating pain all around my lower back and hips. After the rehearsal was over, I told our General Manager that we need to find someone to work on my back because it felt like I was about to break.

She spoke to the agent of the theatre who told us that she would ask around and let me know

what turns up. In the back of my head I was thinking if I don’t see someone and attempt to do this show something bad is going to happen.

The agent called and asked me to meet them outside the theatre so that they could drive me to someone they had found. They took me to a yoga studio where I met with a gentleman who was a retired bodyworker but now was only practicing and teaching yoga.

In the moment I didn’t have much optimism thinking to myself “what was a yoga instructor going to do for me?” But I was in so much pain I was willing to try anything.

My session with this person was one of the most transformative treatments I had ever received in my life. Afterwards, my pain was completely gone and I finished the tour with no problems.

The crazy thing is I can’t even recall anything that he did or even his name. It was as if he was this mystical person who just healed my pain and sent me on my way. He inspired me to take the path I'm on now. I thought to myself whenever I was done dancing full time I knew I would pursue a career in bodywork so that I could help people as well.

Q2: What exactly is the style of bodywork you do?

A2: Bodywork is interpretive. The “style” I do is something interpreted from formations I have taken over the years.

In massage yes, there are styles… Swedish, Thai, Shiatsu ect….But no therapist is the same. Even if some movements or maneuvers are similar between practitioners how each person treats, is different.

Q3: You take care of so many people. Who takes care of you?

A3: I moved to Montreal in 2013. The past 10 years Guillaume Roy Noiseaux (Osteopath) has helped me more times than I can count. There aren’t enough words to describe how incredible he is and what he has done for me let alone for the Montreal community.

Rana Lamy (Physio) is the newest addition to my personal team of health care practitioners that I depend on to keep my body functional. Except she is not new to the community.! She is extremely articulate and generous and energetic. I highly recommend both of them for anyone.

Q4: Have you completely stopped performing? Do you miss the stage?

A4: Even though I don’t dance full time anymore. I haven’t completely stopped dancing. Most recently I performed and choreographed for the show Aprés la Nuit under the direction of Benoit Landry at La Tohu. Im also currently traveling through out the year teaching guest classes and workshops for universities and conservatoires.

I love having these two professions in my life because they both give so much in different ways.

Dancing will always be there in some form for me. But since my relationship with bodywork is comparatively new. I feel that it is keeping my mind and body occupied.

Q5: What is exactly does Reinventing Movement mean to you?

A5: For me “Reinventing Movement” is an idea that I based around my personal experience with practitioners. It is the idea that you are in a constant creation of yourself. Not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well.