Gaëlle Seguin
As a teenager, she dreamed of being an artist, convinced her life would be spent on stage or in the quiet dust of dance studios. Had anyone predicted she would spend the next twenty years mastering budgets and coordinating complex touring logistics, she wouldn’t have believed them. Yet, from those early years, she kept a deep love for movement and one core certainty: dance is the most universal language—the one that connects us when words fall short.
As an adult, she moved behind the scenes to become an essential ally to the performing arts. From Marseille to Nantes, she learned to transform complex logistical puzzles into seamless tours and financial constraints into artistic realities. As the founder of [H]ikari Production in 2012, an administrator, and a production manager, she handles digital tools with a rigor dedicated entirely to the creative process. She specializes in “managing the unexpected”—a discipline she practices with calm when reality refuses to fit into the cells of an Excel spreadsheet.
In August 2025, she decided to put her theory of universality to the test. She moved from France to Toronto with her expertise and her two sons to expand [H]ikari’s reach in Canada.
Today, she continues to oversee every production detail with the precision of a watchmaker, convinced that no matter the time zone, a show only truly comes to life when someone behind the scenes has made it possible for the artists to dance freely.
