artistic approach / Process

Hubert’s work focuses on the relationship between bodies, spaces and the realities moving through them. Since their first piece CROISÉ (2018), Hubert’s dance work explores gestures, archival movement, ghosts, mythologies, time travelling and somatic practices of social justice. In order to challenge québécois settler narrativity and embodiment, Hubert crafts spaces of encounter where dissolution allows to go beyond the self. In Hubert’s performance, their pedagogy or their dramaturgical work; the work reflects their commitment to friendship, love and queerness as a creative way to tell stories and to be together. Their most recent work is about historical reenactments and the specificities of québécois settler colonialism.

Hubert Thériault is a French-Canadian performance artist and dance researcher. They encountered performance for the first time when they were studying visual arts at CÉGEP du Vieux-Montréal. Later they developed a practice of puppetry, mask and physical theatre. In 2016, Hubert began studies in Contemporary dance at Concordia University which they will graduate from in 2022. . In 2022 Hubert also took part in the emerging choreographer program in Vienna called danceWeb. In 2023 they will participate in Johanna Heusser (Switzerland) and Marie-Laurence Deschênes (Canada) creative process. Passionate about critical theory and dramaturgy, they completed a Masters degree in 2024. Hubert wrote a text for the collective Hantologie(2025) and translated multiple texts from the dance historian and artist VK Preston. Alongside their performative practices, Hubert is currently enrolled in a law degree at McGill University in Montreal.