Alexandre Hamel was first trained as a figure skater.  He competed on the international circuit, was once on the Canadian championships podium, and cumulated a few provincial champion titles.  He then skated professionally for Disney on Ice.  He founded Le Patin Libre in 2005 and still directs the company, while staying as involved as always with performance and creation.  He is very committed to the importance of creating depolarizing cultural experiences gathering general audiences with art aficionados.  Hamel is also a filmmaker; his documentaries winning awards and being presented in international film festivals.

Pascale Jodoin was also first trained as a traditional figure skater.  She avoided a large part of the formatting imposed on young figure skating ladies because of her free-spirited attitude.  She joined Le Patin Libre in 2009 after seeing a performance, auditioning, participating in workshops offered by the founding artists and dancing in underground ice parties organized by the collective.  Above her implication as a creator and a performer, she manages a large part of the activities of the company.  Before being completely mobilized by Le Patin Libre, she also ran a small jewelry business and performed as a circus artist in Montreal.

Samory Ba is the only founding member of our company who is not Canadian.  He was born in France, near Paris, and trained there as a traditional figure skater.  After performing for various ice shows, including Holiday on Ice, he quit the industry and a very well-paid position to take a huge gamble: joining Le Patin Libre, as the collective was still precarious.  He is now an important part of our creation team and a fully involved performer.  He also organizes many of our tours.

David plays an important role as a member of the ballet and as a soloist, in Murmuration.

He is the only performer in Murmuration who was not trained as a figure skater.  He's a self-taught skater.  He is to figure skaters what urban dancers are to ballerinas.  He trains more than any skater in the collective.  With his hockey skates, he is easy to spot.

We spotted him on a public skating session in France where we were giving community workshops.  We never saw someone skating like that.  We played with him, danced with him and convinced him to audition.  He had to travel to Netherlands, to take part in our next audition.  At the world premiere in Paris, in June 2022, it was his first public performance, and he did great.
His self-taught style and virtuosity allows him to be a striking and touching symbol, in the show.  He combines power with vulnerability.

Between tours, he is an independent car mechanic in a small alpine village.

In 2008, we first hired Jasmin as a technician. Bien a cellist and electro-acoustic composer, he quickly began creating our soundtracks. In 2011, during a creation residency with the company, he began to develop his own style of ice dance, combining his skills as an amateur hockey player and his interest in social and urban dances. Surprising our choreographers with an unusual style, he was included in the shows Vertical Influences (2014) and Threshold (2018) as a skating-artist. He also composed the soundtracks of these shows, developing a musicality giving an important place to the sounds emitted by the blades during the performances. Jasmin composed the music for Murmuration with another Montreal composer: Philippe Le Bon. He still tours with the company. For Murmuration, he acts as sound and lighting console operator.