SORAÏDA CARON - Studio 303

PROJECT // Les Petits désordres

BIOGRAPHY

After earning a Bachelor’s in Contemporary Dance from Université du Québec à Montréal, Soraïda returned to settle in Trois-Pistoles, Bas-Saint-Laurent. Drawing from her experience as a performer in Quebec and France, she developed her career as a teacher, performer, and choreographer, earning the Bas-Saint-Laurent Emerging Artist Award in 2011. In 2015, she founded Mars elle danse, serving as its general and artistic director and choreographer. Her works—Belles Bêtes, Lignes de force, and Élégante chair—have been presented at festivals, theaters, and museums across Quebec. In 2022, she received the prestigious Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) Artist of the Year Award for Bas-Saint-Laurent in recognition of her body of work.

Deeply rooted in her region, Soraïda also organizes cultural events, including the award-winning festival Au quai, on danse! (winning MRC des Basque’s favorite). In summer 2023, she traveled to Tunis for the Journées chorégraphiques de Carthage festival and to Germany for a two-month co-creation residency at Fabrik Potsdam, a choreographic center. As a long-term artist-in-residence at Théâtre du Bic for the next two years, she will create and present her upcoming solo work, Les Petits désordres.

PROJECT DETAILS
Les Petits désordres marks choreographer and performer Soraïda Caron’s first solo work. Interspersed with short monologues, the piece explores her dual identity as an adoptee: Quebecois and Dominican, white and Black. It stages the repercussions—that she names “small messes”—of her origins on her life journey. This autobiographical narrative plunges us into an identity quest to better grasp the complex repercussions of international adoption. A rich and honest work where the artist surrenders part of her intimacy to the audience.
Credits: Choreography and performance: Soraïda Caron Sound Design: Antoine Létourneau Berger Set Design: le Tourniquet Mentor: Paul-André Fortier Literary Mentor: Stéphanie Pelletier Rehearsal Director: Frédéric Boivin Lighting Design: Lucie Bazzo Discussion Panels and Interview Facilitation: Kimura Byol & Amandine Gay Residency Partners: Théâtre du Bic, Ville de Rivière-du-Loup, Agora de la danse, Studio 303, Otra Orilla, Théâtre du Petit Champlain, CLAC, and CONTACTS-Artist Residencies. Les Petits désordres will be presented at Théâtre du Bic (September 17, 2025), Mauricie Arts vivants Festival (September 20, 2025) and Agora de la danse (December 3–5, 2025). The work has also been selected for the Parcours danse Biennale this November.

PROJECT DETAILS

Les Petits désordres marks choreographer and performer Soraïda Caron’s first solo work. Interspersed with short monologues, the piece explores her dual identity as an adoptee: Quebecois and Dominican, white and Black. It stages the repercussions—that she names “small messes”—of her origins on her life journey. This autobiographical narrative plunges us into an identity quest to better grasp the complex repercussions of international adoption. A rich and honest work where the artist surrenders part of her intimacy to the audience.

Credits: Choreography and performance: Soraïda Caron
Sound Design: Antoine Létourneau Berger
Set Design: le Tourniquet
Mentor: Paul-André Fortier
Literary Mentor: Stéphanie Pelletier
Rehearsal Director: Frédéric Boivin
Lighting Design: Lucie Bazzo
Discussion Panels and Interview Facilitation: Kimura Byol & Amandine Gay
Residency Partners: Théâtre du Bic, Ville de Rivière-du-Loup, Agora de la danse, Studio 303, Otra Orilla, Théâtre du Petit Champlain, CLAC, and CONTACTS-Artist Residencies.

Les Petits désordres will be presented at Théâtre du Bic (September 17, 2025), Mauricie Arts vivants Festival (September 20, 2025) and Agora de la danse (December 3–5, 2025). The work has also been selected for the Parcours danse Biennale this November.