After winning the first Danse Elargie Award in 2010, Noé Soulier was commissioned to work with four dancers of Le Ballet du Rhin. For D’un Pays Lointain Noé takes the balletpantomime as a starting point. As a movement language highly affected by the logic of spoken word, today, pantomime is one of the aspects of ballet that appears most outdated. But precisely this tension between movement and language, between convention and imitation, offers the potential to readdress the processes by which we assign meaning to the world around us. By slightly distrubing the inner codes of the pantomime, the body can become a source of multiple messages, completing, contradicting or transforming each other. As a physical polyphony, D’un Pays Lointain locates meaning not in the message itself, but in what it tries to avoid: friction between elements, and the actual tension between the visible and the audible.
EXTRA INFO
Project year: 2011
CREDITS
Choreography: Noé Soulier
Dance: Vera Kvarcakova, Sandra Ehrensperger, Alexandre Van Hoorde, Stéphanie M
Music: Pierre Hantaï on harpsichord
Production: wpZimmer (BE)
In collaboration with: Le Ballet du Rhin (FR)
PROJECT DATES
06/04/2013, Opéra de Lille, Lille (FR)
29/05/2012, Sadler’s Wells, London (UK)
30/05/2012, Sadler’s Wells, London (UK)
04/11/2011, La Sinne, Mulhouse (FR)
05/11/2011, La Sinne, Mulhouse (FR)
06/11/2011, La Sinne, Mulhouse (FR)
16/11/2011, Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg (FR)
17/11/2011, Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg (FR)
18/11/2011, Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg (FR)
19/11/2011, Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg (FR)
20/11/2011, Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg (FR)
26/11/2011, Théâtre Municipal, Colmar (FR)
15/09/2011, Théâtre des Abbesses, Paris (FR)
16/09/2011, Théâtre des Abbesses, Paris (FR)
17/09/2011, Théâtre des Abbesses, Paris (FR)
18/09/2011, Théâtre des Abbesses, Paris (FR)
19/09/2011, Théâtre des Abbesses, Paris (FR)
20/09/2011, Théâtre des Abbesses, Paris (FR)
PRESS
Interview, Aesthetica: http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/blog/noe-soulier/
Interview, France Inter: http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-toute-toute-premiere-fois-noe-soulier-choregraphe-23-ans
Review, Gilles Haubensack, L’Alsace: pays_lointain_review_-_l_alsace_191012.pdf
Review, Nicholas Minns, Writing about Dance: pays_lointain___kingdom_of_shades_review___london_sadlers_wells___nicholas_minns.pdf
Review, Graham Watts, ancetabs: pays_lointain___kingdom_of_shades_review___london___dancetabs_300512.pdf