The Interactive Light Veil is the result of a long, unfinished conversation between my body, sound, and light.

My desire to learn, experiment, and innovate has always been a central part of who I am. Long before interactive technologies became widely accessible, I was already dreaming of merging performance and live creation. In 2001, my very first research project brought me to McGill University, where I collaborated with Daniel Levitin. At the time, I was driven by a simple but ambitious idea: to transform the performing body into a musical instrument.

 

I imagined an apparatus made of multiple acrobatic ropes, each one capable of triggering sound in real time. Springs attached to the ropes would activate tones, textures, or loops through movement, tension, and release. Music would not accompany the performance, it would be generated by it. With the support of Daniel Levitin and talented students, I developed my first prototype. The idea was alive, complex, and full of promise.

Then life intervened.

I received a call to join the creation of Corteo, my second production with Cirque du Soleil. I missed the stage deeply, and I was still young, hungry, and full of energy. I chose performance. That apparatus, and all its potential, was placed on hold. I stayed with Cirque du Soleil until 2018, became a mother, and lived many artistic lives within that journey.

Yet innovation never left me. Instead of building instruments, I became one. I sang while performing aerial acrobatics, first in Corteo with vocal aerial silks, then as the Moon Goddess in Amaluna, singing live while suspended on an aerial hoop. These experiences confirmed something essential to me: performance becomes more powerful when multiple languages coexist at the same time, fully embodied.

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I love challenges. I love thinking outside the box. I am not afraid of mistakes or of trying again. Perhaps this comes from my background in gymnastics and diving, where repetition, failure, and risk are part of the process. Creating new performative forms has always been an obsession.

Years later, I took introductory courses at Société des arts technologiques. These classes did not make me a programmer, but they reconnected me to what was happening in contemporary art technology. More importantly, they helped me identify what I was still searching for.

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At the same time, I felt a growing frustration when watching performances that combined circus and projection. Too often, the projection lived behind the artist, on a wall, detached from the body. My eyes had to choose. Do I watch the performer or the image? For me, this was not a fusion. It felt like two beautiful elements missing each other.

I asked myself a question that changed everything:
What if light itself became the stage partner?

That question gave birth to the Interactive Light Veil.

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Then my research landed on Lachlan Turczan and his work LUCIDA. When I first saw light responding to the touch of his hand, my mind exploded, I was soooo happy to see this fusion. The potential felt endless. What if images could emerge from that light? What if the body could reveal, shape, and guide visual worlds through touch and movement? What if light became something you enter, rather than something you look at?

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From that moment, a new chapter of research and development began...

This is my vision: 

The Interactive Light Veil is conceived as a translucent, responsive membrane where light, movement, and imagery coexist in real time. The performer is no longer in front of the projection or behind it. They are inside it. Images are revealed through contact. They follow the body, breathe with it, and disappear when the body leaves.

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This research is being developed in collaboration with Marwan Sekkat, whose expertise supports the technical exploration of sensors, programming, and real-time interaction. Together, we are investigating how light can become tactile, how images can respond intuitively, and how technology can serve poetry.

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The Interactive Light Veil is not a finished object. It is a living research project. It exists to explore a true fusion between live performance and live visual art, where neither dominates, and both are transformed through presence.

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This project is the continuation of a question I first asked over twenty years ago.
How can the body create in real time?

Today, the answer is no longer sound alone.
It is light.