The Waves [Noé Soulier]

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Choreography

Noé Soulier

Dancers

Stephanie Amurao
Lucas Bassereau
Meleat Frederikson
Yumiko Funaya
Anna Massoni
Nans Pierson

Music

Noé Soulier
Tom De Cock
Gerrit Nulens
   
   


   
   

Production

Production ND Productions (Paris)
Coproduction Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin | La Place de la Danse, CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie | Chaillot, Théâtre national de la Danse, Paris | Festival d’Automne à Paris | CN D Centre national de la danse, Pantin | Opéra de Lille (FR) | Theater Freiburg | Teatro Municipal do Porto | Kaaitheater, Brussels | PACT Zollverein, Essen.
With the support of Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles d’Île-de-France – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication au titre de l’aide à la structuration | With the participation of Fonds Transfabrik, Franco-German Fund for performing arts | Noé Soulier is associated artist at CDCN Toulouse/Occitanie for the period 2016-2018 | Noé Soulier is associated artist at CN D Centre national de la danse.

“It has been so long since something so marvelous, foreign, new, strange and special has been discovered in contemporary dance.”
Wiebke Hüster, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
   

   
The most simple act or gesture remains enclosed as though in a thousand jars of which each would be filled with things of different colours, odours and temperature.
(Marcel Proust, Time regained)
   

       
The Waves explores the various ways in which gestures suggest bodily experiences by expanding the research at the heart of my previous pieces. Movement on Movement was focused on gestures that explain or comment other movements. Removing transformed the perception of goal-oriented actions such as hitting, avoiding, throwing or grabbing, by preventing the audience to recognize these goals. For example, the dancers aimed at imaginary objects or interrupted their actions before they were completed, thus allowing the spectator to experience aspects of the action that would remain unnoticed if its goal would have been identified. Faits et gestes continued these experiments and added an exploration of the ways in which a gesture can recall the feeling of executing a movement: dancers created gestures that expressed their experience when executing another movement. All these projects are rooted in the intuition that a gesture that explains or suggests a movement can often communicate better what is at stake in this movement. In this new piece, I would like to pursue and expand this exploration of the ways in which a movement can refer to another movement: symbols, hints, suggestions, schemata, sketches, comments, explanations, experiential correspondences…
(Noé Soulier)

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“Het is lang geleden dat we zo iets briljants, vreemds, nieuws en bijzonders hebben ontdekt in de hedendaagse dans".
Wiebke Hüster, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
   

     
Soulier citeert Marcel Proust:
‘Het gebaar, de eenvoudigste beweging blijft opgesloten. Het is alsof het in duizend potten zit
elk gevuld met andere kleuren, geuren en temperaturen.’
De bewegingen die choreografe Noé Soulier heeft samengebracht – ‘een vluchtige blik, bruusk van richting veranderen, de inspanning om weer de juiste richting uit te gaan of in evenwicht te blijven’ – zijn erop gericht bij het publiek verre herinneringen te triggeren, door het onderbewuste fysieke geheugen te activeren.

Een verzameling eenvoudige en impulsieve gebaren die met een specifieke bedoeling worden getoond,
suggestief maar nooit voltooid – slaan naar, uitwijken, zich op iemand storten – en die de zes dansers en danseressen in een razend tempo en met hoge sprongen op het publiek afvuren. De voorstelling is uitgewerkt tijdens intensieve oefensessies met onze percussionisten Gerrit Nulens en Tom De Cock.

« Cela faisait bien longtemps que nous n'avions pas découvert quelque chose d’aussi merveilleux, singulier, étrange et neuf en danse contemporaine. »
Wiebke Hüster, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
« Place à de belles phrases de corps, à une houle entêtante ou suspendue, à la douce, fraîche, vive et folle effervescence de l’écume des corps. »
Jean-Dominique Burtin, Magcentre
   

     
Soulier cite Marcel Proust : « Le geste, l’acte le plus simple reste enfermé comme dans mille vases clos dont chacun serait rempli de choses d’une couleur, d’une odeur, d’une température absolument différentes. »

Les mouvements que chorégraphie ici Noé Soulier – « un regard furtif, un brusque changement de direction, l’effort pour rediriger un élan ou pour rester en équilibre » – sont calibrés pour entrer en résonance avec de lointaines expériences du spectateur, activant sa mémoire corporelle diffuse. Soit une grammaire de gestes simples et impulsifs, lancés dans l’espace mais coupés de leur but, évocateurs mais inaccomplis – frapper vers, esquiver, se jeter sur – que les six danseurs et danseuses articulent en phrases aériennes et hautement rythmiques.

Le spectacle a été conçu au cours d’un long processus de travail avec nos percussionnistes Tom De Cock et Gerrit Nulens.

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Agenda for this project

August 2018
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  • Thu 30.08 The Waves HAU2 - Berlin - Germany

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September 2018
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  • Sat 01.09 The Waves HAU2 - Berlin - Germany

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  • Fri 28.09 The Waves (Noé Soulier) Teatro Municipal - Porto - Portugal

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November 2018
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  • Wed 14.11 The Waves (Noé Soulier) Theâtre National de Chaillot - Paris - France

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December 2018
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February 2019
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  • Fri 01.02 The Waves (Noé Soulier) Kaaitheater - Brussels - Belgium

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March 2019
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  • Tue 19.03 The Waves (Noé Soulier) Opéra - Lille - France

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April 2019
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  • Thu 25.04 The Waves (Noé Soulier) CNNO - Orléans - France

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May 2019
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  • Fri 10.05 The Waves (Noé Soulier) Theater - Freiburg - Germany

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  • Sun 19.05 The Waves (Noé Soulier) KunstFestSpiele - Herrenhausen - Germany

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July 2019
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  • Sun 21.07 The Waves (Noé Soulier) Les lieux mouvants - Bretagne - France

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January 2020
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  • Wed 15.01 The Waves (Noé Soulier) STUK - Leuven - Belgium

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March 2020
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  • Tue 10.03 The Waves Theater im Pfalzbau - Ludwigshafen - Germany

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April 2020
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  • Wed 08.04 The Waves (Noé Soulier) CANCELED Théâtre de Cornouaille - Quimper - France

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  • Thu 16.04 The Waves (Noé Soulier) POSTPONED   - Bordeaux - France

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May 2020
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  • Wed 06.05 The Waves CANCELED Théâtre - St-Quentin-en-Yvelines - France

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June 2020
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  • Sat 13.06 The Waves (Noé Soulier) CANCELED Biennale - Venezia - Italy

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October 2020
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  • Tue 20.10 The Waves (Noé Soulier) Piccolo Theatre Arsenale - Venecia - Italy

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  • Sat 31.10 The Waves (Noé Soulier) PACT Zollverein - Essen - Germany

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November 2020
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December 2020
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  • Wed 16.12 The Waves (Noé Soulier) CANCELED La Manufacture - Bordeaux - France

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  • Thu 17.12 The Waves (Noé Soulier) CANCELED   - Angers - France

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January 2021
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  • Tue 26.01 The Waves (Noé Soulier) CANCELED Le Volcan - Le Havre - France

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March 2021
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  • Thu 25.03 The Waves (Noé Soulier) CANCELED — - Cognac - France

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June 2021
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  • Wed 30.06 The Waves Le Volcan - Le Havre - France

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September 2021
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  • Tue 28.09 The Waves La Manufacture  - Bordeaux - France

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January 2022
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  • Mon 10.01 The Waves (Noé Soulier) CANCELED Le Quai - Angers - France

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  • Fri 14.01 The Waves (Noé Soulier) Théâtre Graslin - Nantes - France

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  • Sat 15.01 The Waves (Noé Soulier) Théâtre Graslin - Nantes - France

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  • Tue 18.01 The Waves  CDCN - Dijon - France

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January 2023
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  • Thu 19.01 The Waves [Noé Soulier] L'Arsenal - Metz - France

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March 2024
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  • Fri 29.03 The Waves (Noé Soulier) Saitama Arts Theater - Saitama - Japan

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April 2024
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  • Fri 05.04 The Waves (Noé Soulier)    - Kyoto - Japan

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