© Alexandre Guirkinger
Designed for museum spaces, this performance is made up of a series of duets that explore a particular way of dancing together. The dancers grasp each other’s bodies with the folds of their own bodies: neck, hips, inside of elbow or knee, wrists and ankles. By avoiding the predominant use of the hands, they enter into a conversation that brings into play the most sensitive and vulnerable parts of the body. In this way, they thwart any stereotypical reading of the relationships between the bodies, evoking in turn plants, rocks, animals, fights or embraces.
Credits
Choreography: Noé Soulier Artistic collaboration: Stephanie Amurao, Julie Charbonnier, José Paulo dos Santos, Nans Pierson Dancers: Stephanie Amurao, Nans Pierson, Noé Soulier, Mélisande Tonolo
Production
Production: Cndc-Angers
Tour
2023 June 17: Carré d’art – Nîmes (FR)
2025 March 31: BnF, as a part of Chorégraphie pour une œuvre – Paris (FR) June 2: Musée de l’Orangerie, as a part of Danse dans le Nymphéas – Paris (FR)
Théâtre de la Ville - Les Abbesses – Paris (FR)
Festival Crossing The Line, Alliance New York, Skyroom - New York (US)
Festival d’Automne à Paris, Ménagerie de Verre, avec le Centre Pompidou hors les murs – Paris
XENOS Festival, Museo Santa Maria della Scala – Sienne (IT)
Taipei Performing Arts Center – Taipei (TW)
Maison de la danse – Lyon (FR)
Théâtre de Nîmes – Nîmes (FR)
Théâtre du Beauvais – Beauvais (FR)
Théâtre de l’Archipel – Perpignan (FR)
Équinoxe – Châteauroux (FR)
Festival Conversations, Cndc – Angers (FR)
Le Grand R – La Roche-sur-Yon (FR)
Les Quinconces – Le Mans (FR)