Caroline Laurin-Beaucage is a choreographer, performer, and teacher with over 25 years of experience. She has created more than ten works, including installations, in situ performances, architectural projections, and a virtual reality film. Her creations have been presented in Montreal (Danse Danse, Agora de la danse, Tangente, Festival TransAmériques, OFFTA) and internationally in Canada, France, Spain, Hungary, Germany, South Korea, Switzerland, Israel, and Italy. In 2020, she received the CALQ Prize for Best Choreographic Work for Intérieurs. Her virtual reality film Bodies of Water (Une eau la nuit), co-created with Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin, was selected for the official competition at the 2024 Venice Biennale. As a performer, she has collaborated with renowned artists such as Ginette Laurin (O Vertigo), Jacques Poulin-Denis, Paul-André Fortier, and Jean-Pierre Perreault. A co-founder of Lorganisme, a collective supporting choreographers, she remains an active member and, in 2022, joined Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique.

Caroline Laurin-Beaucage’s artistic language emerges first and foremost from the body—movement precedes concept. Her creative process begins with the visceral and the sensory, before taking shape through theoretical reflection. She is fascinated by intangible physical forces—gravity, memory, time—and by how these unseen phenomena influence and sculpt the unfolding of choreographic writing.

By translating these invisible principles into movement, Laurin-Beaucage has developed a choreographic vocabulary deeply rooted in materiality, temporality, and spatial awareness. Each gesture exists in dialogue with its environment: framed by time, defined by space, and often intertwined with scenographic elements that both constrain and structure the composition.

Her works become carnal embodiments of hidden systems—poetic manifestations of the human condition. Through a dance language that is at once raw and refined, instinctive and sensitive, she gives form to interior states and to what lies beyond perception. Substantial and uncompromising, her choreography makes the invisible visible, revealing the profound humanity that resides within motion itself.

Photo by: Alex Tran