Noé Soulier
Clocks & Clouds
© Clocks & Clouds, Noé Soulier, Le Carreau du Temple © Victoria Tanto ©
© Clocks & Clouds, Noé Soulier, Le Carreau du Temple © Victoria Tanto ©
© Clocks & Clouds, Noé Soulier, Le Carreau du Temple © Victoria Tanto ©
Choreography, Noé Soulier
Transmission, Stéphanie Amurao, Lucas Bassereau, Meleat Fredriksson, Yumiko Funaya, Nans Pierson
Assistant, Stéphanie Amurao
Featuring 35 dancers, students at Cndc in Angers and CNSMD in Paris : Assistante, Stéphanie Amurao
WIth 34 dancers, students of the school Cndc et du Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP) : Victor Allain, Ema Bertaud, Arthur Bordage, Adam Chado, Malick Cissé, Pierrick Claudel, Noan Colin, Inès De Vilhena, Danaé Durand, Lisa Fleury, Sarah Garnaud, Muriel Garric, Blanche Giraudon, Paul Grassin, Tom Guilbaud, Suzanne Henry, Pierrick Jacquart, Margot Jude, Lou Lenormand, Mado Lizzi, Stanley Menthor, Michael Nana, Samuel Planas, Louise Phelipon, Veronika Reva, Lisa Rinsoz, Noémie Samier-Okamura, Lucas Soares-Resende, Alexandre Tessier, Pierre-Adrien Touret, Alina Tskhovryebova, Madeline Tual, Adèle Turby, Gal Zusmanovich
Music, Gyorgÿ Ligeti, Chamber Concerto for 13 Instrumentalists, Sonata for viola
Interpreted by Ensemble Intercontemporain
Alto, John Stulz
Directed by Oskar Jokel
Soloists, Sophie Cherrier, Philippe Grauvogel, Martin Adámek, Alain Billard, Paul Riveaux, Jens McManama, Jean-Christophe Vervoitte, Hidéki Nagano, Sébastien Vichard, Jeanne-Marie Conquer, Diego Tosi, John Stulz, Éric-Maria Couturier, Nicolas Crosse, Lucas Ounissi
Lights, Victor Burel
Costumes, Catherine Garnier, assisted by Sophie Hampe
Technical direction, François Le Maguer
Production, Céline Chouffot, Adèle Thébault
Co-produced by Cndc-Angers; CNSMD de Paris; Festival d’Automne à Paris
Co-directed by Le Carreau du Temple; Festival d’Automne à Paris
In partnership with Ensemble intercontemporain
With support from Dance Reflections by Van Cleef and Arpels
With support from ministère de la Culture – Drac Pays de la Loire
France Culture is a partner of 6 x Noé Soulier
Hovering between chaos and structure, Noé Soulier explores a decentralized approach to choreography which he then uses to guide the flow of a large group of dancers. Similar to a flock of birds, the performers interact with each other as part of a wider movement, setting in motion a controlled meshing effect in which the common emerges from the singular.
Clocks and clouds. This was the formula that the philosopher of science Karl Popper used to explain the two major principles that regulate physical reality. On the one hand, we have phenomena which are predictable and regular and, on the other hand, those which are subject to indeterminate forces. These reflections were a source of inspiration for the composer György Ligeti, the compositions of whom oscillate between chaos and structure. This is the case in relation to his Chamber concerto (1969), and it is this piece which the choreographer uses as his starting point. For the purpose of this project, Noé Soulier, accompanied by a large group of students from the CNSMD in Paris and the Cndc in Angers, has created composition tools which enable movement to be generated by a group. Similar to an equation consisting of several unknowns, the score is built up in real time, in a to-and-fro process between the decisions made by the members of the group and the collection of written movements. Like a swarm of fleeting intentions and chain reactions, the directions taken by the dancers answer to a decentralized logic which reacts to the slightest impulse… forming lines, waves, dispersions and overlap.