| Role | Project | Artist | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tour Management | Dog Rising | Clara Furey/Bent Hollow | Hong Kong | 2026 |
| Production | You Cannot Can | Dana Michel/Scorp Corps | Montréal | 2026 |
| Residency | Studies in Virtuality | Simon Portigal | Montréal: Studio 303 | 2025 |
| Interpretation | Laundry of Legends II | Jassem Hindi | Montréal | 2025 |
| Residency | Studies in Virtuality | Simon Portigal | Montréal: Parbleux | 2025 |
| Tour Management | Dog Rising + Unarmoured | Clara Furey/Bent Hollow | Sofia + Vienna | 2024 |
| Rehearsal Direction | Unarmoured | Clara Furey/Bent Hollow | Montréal | 2024 |
| Interpretation | Laundry of Legends II | Jassem Hindi | Montréal | 2023 |
| Tour Management | Dog Rising | Clara Furey/Bent Hollow | Québec | 2023 |
| Interpretation | Miracleing | Sasha Kleinplatz | Montréal | 2022 |
| Choreography | fragile & useless | Simon Portigal | Montréal | 2022 |
| Consultation | Leaky Immediations | Lara Oundjian | Montréal | 2022 |
| Consultation | grindruberairbnb.exposed | Jonathan Chomko | Montréal | 2022 |
| Interpretation | Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years | Dora Garcia | Montréal | 2021 |
| Consultation | Ugly Feelings | Caroline Gravel | Montréal | 2021 |
| Research | Creation/Destruction | Dana Gingras | Montréal | 2020 |
| Choreography | limbic cum rag | Simon Portigal | Montréal | 2019 |
| Consultation | SOFTLAMP.autonomies | Ellen Furey + Malik Nashad-Sharpe | Montréal | 2019 |
| Choreography | limbic cum rag | Simon Portigal | Montréal + New York | 2018 |
| Research | Suite Canadienne, a demonstration | Adam Kinner | Montréal | 2018 |
| Research | Fluid Grounds | Benoit Lachambre | Montréal | 2018 |
| Choreography | limbic cum rag | Simon Portigal | Montréal | 2017 |
| Interpretation | Cosmic Love | Clara Furey | Montréal | 2017 |
| Interpretation | Make Banana Cry | Andrew Tay + Stephen Thompson | Montréal | 2017 |
| Interpretation | Holding Still, Holding Together | Annie Macdonell | Toronto | 2017 |
| Interpretation | Out of Season | Ame Henderson/Public Recordings + Matija Ferlin | Montréal | 2017 |
| Choreography | limbic cum rag | Simon Portigal | Toronto | 2016 | Interpretation | Lift That Up | Dana Michel + Dancemakers | Toronto | 2016 |
| Choreography | Mourning Dance | Simon Portigal | Montréal | 2016 |
| Choreography | Public Studies Leading Elsewhere | Simon Portigal | Toronto | 2016 |
| Interpretation | Taking It To The Grave | Eroca Nicols | Winnipeg | 2016 |
| Interpretation | Traditional Dance | Amelia Ehrhardt | Montréal | 2016 |
| Collaboration + Interpretation | Performance with Jersusalem in my Heart | Radwan Moumneh/Jerusalem in my Heart | Montréal | 2016 |
| Choreography | USER|FRIENDLY | Simon Portigal | Toronto | 2015 |
| Research | What It's Like | Heidi Strauss/Adelheid | Montréal | 2015 |
| Interpretation | Truthteller | Eroca Nicols | Toronto | 2015 |
| Interpretation | An Occasion hosted by | Isabel Lewis | Toronto | 2015 |
| Interpretation | M/Other + Dark Meaningless Touch | Banjamin Kamino | Montréal | 2015 |
| Interpretation | 1976, Have Several | Dana Michel + Dancemakers | Toronto | 2015 |
| Interpretation | Recent Future | Zoja Smutny + Dancemakers | Toronto | 2015 |
| Interpretation | rehearsal/performance | Ame Henderson/Public Recordings | Toronto | 2014 |
| Interpretation | Monster, Angels, and Aliens are not a Substitute for Spirituality | Andrew Tay | Montréal | 2014 |
| Interpretation | The Weather in Times Square, Today | Adam Kinner | Montréal | 2014 |
| Interpretation | Around | Michael Trent + Dancemakers | Toronto | 2014 |
| Collaboration | What Is This Heart? | How to Dress Well + Simon Portigal + Brendan Fernandes | Berlin | 2014 |
| Choreography | ernsinpattersinpat, etc. | Simon Portigal | Montréal | 2013 |
| Collaboration + Interpretation | Dancemakers | rumschspringe | Toronto | 2013 |
| Interpretation | Night Shift | Michael Trent + Brendan Fernandes + Dancemakers | Toronto | 2013 |
| Interpretation | The Nature: Redux | Mårten Spångberg | Montréal | 2013 |
| Interpretation | Loveloss | Michael Trent + Dancemakers | Toronto | 2013 |
| Choreography | Landscape Dance: Homage to the Three Orders | Simon Portigal | Toronto | 2013 |
| Collaboration | Future Standards of Living | Simon Portigal + Védis Kjartansdóttir + Inga Huld Hàkonardòttir | Reykjavík | 2013 |
| Choreography | Sondage Générale 2011/General Survey 2011 | Simon Portigal | Montréal | 2011 |
I'm Simon Portigal, a Montréal-based contemporary dance artist with a research-based choreographic practice. My work adopts a dense, multifaceted structure shaped by my lived experience as a queer, first-generation child of the internet and "third culture kid" raised overseas, as well as my academic training in post-modern Western concert dance. Through these lenses, I investigate the body's entanglement with identity, borders, thresholds, movement, and digitality, drawing on references that range across 2SLGBTQIA+ and popular cultures, post-internet aesthetics, animation, reality television, cinema, and video games. I situate these influences within the broader choreographic histories and theoretical frameworks that shape my practice, asking how the body negotiates conflict, contradiction, and multiplicity — and how to move through the world at the intersection of cultural displacement, digital technology, and queerness.
I have a concurrent web and graphic design practice under the name of arthr.ca
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