PROJECTS

2024

Bodies of Water

Virtual reality film







CREDITS
Writing and direction 
Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin

Choreography 
Caroline Laurin-Beaucage

Performance 
Léonie Bélanger, Rachel Harris, Jimmy Chung, Emmanuel Jouthe, RowanMercille et Luca Patuelli (LazyLegz)

Production
Art et Essai — Jeanne-Marie Poulain, Line Sander Egede, Irène Bessone, Laurence Wells

Associate producer
 Anaëlle Béglet

Project manager 
Laurence Wells

Director of photography
Pierre Mainville

Costumes 
Camille Thibault-Bédard

Video editing 
Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin

Sound 
Bruno Bélanger (PRIM)

Music 
Vincent Legault

Financial support 
Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des Arts de Montréal

Partners 
Zù (2020). Residency at Agora de la danse (2021). Boot Québec XR at Venice Mostra (2023). The VR film Bodies of Water (Une eau la nuit) invites you to hold your breath and let yourself be transported and transformed by water in the company of curious individuals. As night falls, they invade a public swimming pool. These bodies of water, immersed in the watery mass, transgress the limits of their natural environment and metamorphose. They then engage in a contemporary dance that reveals them differently. The aquatic environment makes them supple and light, but also vulnerable and combative. This poetic mass, encompassing and suffocating, unites, separates, and constitutes them. Bodies of Water explores the transformation of human bodies as they interact with water—a fluid and adaptable medium that simultaneously presents resistance. It takes you underwater for an immersive experience that unfolds an uncommon and otherwise inaccessible contemporary dance.













Photo credit: ©Vivien Gaumand
 In competition at the Venice Biennale 2024 as part of Venice Immersive

Co-creation with Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin

Length: 10 min

WORLD PREMIERE
August 2024, Venice Film Festival

2024 -2025
30 screenings: Italy, Germany, Egypt, France, Brazil, Romania, Lithuania, Taiwan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Chile, the Czech Republic. 

PRESS
Nature aquatique,
La Presse   

Venice Film Festival 2024: The Good and the Great, Frieze 

Une œuvre signée Caroline Laurin-Beaucage et Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin à la Biennale de Venise, Actualités UQAM 

Création
Caroline 
Laurin-Beaucage