Sonya Stefan CA

Montréal-based filmmaker, visual artist and curator

Sonya Stefan creates hybrid film/video cine-danses that combine lo-fi technologies with movement ideas and develops them into live performance pieces or screen-based works. Sonya is co-founder of groop*index which is a Montréal-based collective of filmmakers and visual artists and completed a residency and performance in Poitiers, France with Nyktalop Melodie, exploring throw-away technologies such as VHS, Hi 8, Mini DV and 16mm film. Through a collaboration with Bande Interdite as well as residencies at Studio 303 and Circuit Est Centre Choreographic, Sonya’s cine-danse Salon-double was presented at Agora de la Danse in 2013. Her first full-length fiction is Living Room Dances and she premiered Annuaire at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Her choreographic fascinations continue to position her between corporeal and videographic spaces.