Bodies of Water

CHÉLANIE BEAUDIN-QUINTIN (director)
Visual artist and filmmaker, Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin creates dance films, virtual reality experiences, fiction, and video installations. Her practice intersects dance, cinema, and anthropology to explore the individual and collective body. She is interested in spaces of exchange and cohabitation and in our animistic behavior. Through dance and film, she seeks to create a new dramaturgy whose narrative form, departing from classical codes, appears rather sensory and embodied. She also created videos for two productions by director Marie-Ève Milot, written by Nathalie Doummar, namely the plays Sissi, presented at La petite Licorne in 2019, and more recently Mama, presented at the Théâtre Duceppe in 2022 (returning in July 2023). Her first virtual reality film, 21 Gun Salute, also involved choreographic work and was presented at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma in 2020. Her work has been showcased in various exhibitions and events in Quebec, Toronto, and internationally, including Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the United States.

CAROLINE LAURIN-BEAUCAGE (choreographer)
Contemporary dance artist and educator, Caroline Laurin-Beaucage has been driving creative projects from a multidisciplinary perspective since the beginning of her career. Active for 23 years in Montreal, she has around ten works in her repertoire. Her work has been showcased in Montreal (Danse Danse, Agora de la danse, Tangente, Festival TransAmériques, OFFTA), as well as in France, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, and Korea, among others. In 2016, she embarked on the project "Habiter sa mémoire," a site-specific performance presented in about twenty locations worldwide. From this large-scale project, she created in 2019 the stage work "Intérieurs" (awarded the CALQ prize for best choreographic work), as well as the exhibition "Marquer le temps," presented respectively by Danse Danse and Place des Arts. Over time and from one work to another, she crystallizes her poetry of the body through experiences presented in theaters, but also in situ (Habiter sa mémoire), in installations (Marquer le temps), in the form of projection (REBO(U)ND), and most recently through virtual reality (Bodies of water). New technologies are an integral part of her artistic proposals: notable collaborations include those with artist Martin Messier (Soak and Innervision) and Thomas Payette of Mirari company. Trained at the Toronto Dance Theatre School, she worked as a performer with Ginette Laurin (O Vertigo), Jacques Poulin-Denis, Paul-André Fortier, and Jean-Pierre Perreault. Co-founder and member of Lorganisme, she co-directed the artistic direction and general management of the organization until 2019. She also served on the artistic committee that led the development of the O Vertigo Creation Center.