about
who we are
Founded by Lydie Revez and Mickaël Spinnhirny, CAPAS is the first dance label in Canada. Proud of its French-speaking roots and its independence in North America, CAPAS operates at the heart of the choreographic ecosystem by combining representation, production, distribution, programming, and professional services. CAPAS embodies a broad vision of dance. It supports artists whose signature is part of a strong approach, supporting them in the conception, structuring, marketing, and distribution of their works. It designs creative projects and programs performances that bring the discipline to life in all its diversity. A transversal structure, CAPAS also offers concrete solutions to institutions, companies, and other organizations in the sector, meeting their administrative, strategic, and communication needs. By combining artistic action, active engagement, and a systemic vision, CAPAS embodies a new way of doing things: flexible, ambitious, and bold, at the service of dance in all its forms.
dance label
Inspired by music labels, CAPAS • Dance Label offers a renewed vision of performing arts support. Like a label that produces, distributes, manages, advises, promotes and cares for artists throughout their careers, CAPAS adopts a global, agile, and multifaceted approach. The label doesn't just represent artists: it propels them, structures them, and connects them to their audiences, markets, and communities. CAPAS acts as a production company, touring office, strategic studio, and image workshop, allowing each project to develop in its uniqueness, with ambition and consistency. But CAPAS doesn't just support artists: it supports the entire chain of creation, distribution, and mediation. By offering tailor-made services to companies, festivals, programmers, cultural organizations, and community partners, CAPAS acts as a structuring link in the choreographic ecosystem.
CAPAS • shows promotes works on stages in Quebec, Canada, and internationally. The label acts as a producer, associate programmer, facilitator, and circulation agent. It represents shows to programming networks, develops national and international tours, designs shows aimed at broadening audiences, and works to improve accessibility to choreographic art. CAPAS meets the needs of programmers while serving the ambitions of artists and the curiosities of audiences. By also inviting shows by foreign artists to tour Quebec and by imagining formats designed to create lasting connections with audiences, CAPAS actively contributes to the diversity of stages and the mobility of works.
CAPAS • services offers 360-degree services designed to support players in the choreographic sector in their development, structuring, and influence. At the crossroads of production, management, and communications, these services are aimed at artists as well as companies, programmers, festivals, and partner organizations. The support covers a wide range of expertise: administrative and accounting services, production support, strategic support, communication and image, not to mention personalized training and mentoring. Designed to respond to the changing realities of the sector, these services aim to strengthen the autonomy, professionalization, and sustainability of artistic structures, regardless of their scale or anchoring.
mission
CAPAS wishes to create and participate in unifying projects for its artists and for its community. This commitment splits into two complementary divisions, each with their specific fields of action:
collaboration
Within our team and with our artists and partners, we promote open discussion, involvement, mutual assistance and transparency to benefit from the pooling of experiences and expertise.
flexibility
Aware of the current speed at which society changes, CAPAS wishes to remain agile to offer proactive and realistic solutions as a response to emerging issues.
respect
To ensure a collaborative climate, we value openness, fairness and inclusion in a safe and attentive environment that does not tolerate any form of ostracism.
consistency
Rigor and excellence are at the heart of all CAPAS processes, both from an artistic and administrative point of view, with personalized support down to the smallest detail.
innovation
In a balance between productivity, progress and pleasure, we encourage the research and realization of new ideas while taking into account the time and resources offered by our team, artists and partners.
history
CAPAS was co-founded in 2018 by Mickaël Spinnhirny, an artist agent, and Lydie Revez, a cultural administrator, who together have over 35 years of experience in the sector. Initially created under the name Agence Mickaël Spinnhirny, the organization has become a truly multidimensional label, reinventing the role of a cultural actor in the field of contemporary dance. Over the years, CAPAS has adapted its services to the realities of the sector: initially focused on representation, administration, and distribution logistics, it has broadened its scope to support digital transitions, offer strategic services to companies and institutions, and produce shows aimed at large audiences. In seven years, CAPAS has supported over 1,500 performances worldwide, collaborated with some fifty companies, and contributed to the recognition of dance as a driver of meaning, connection, and emotion.
