Actions, mouvements et gestes is an attempt to elucidate different ways of looking at movement through an analysis of choreographic practices. In this book, the dancer and choreographer Noé Soulier, associate artist at the CN D, explores ‘focales d’attention’ – conceptual lenses that offer a different perspective on movement and the body. This multi-faceted study, aimed at dance enthusiasts as well as dancers, is linked to conceptual art, philosophy and art theory. The author here seeks less to decipher the meaning of the works than to modify and enrich the many different ways of creating an experience out of them.
Noé Soulier
Noé Soulier studied at the National Ballet School of Canada and PARTS in Brussels. He received a master degree in philosophy at La Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and took part in the Palais de Tokyo’s residency program: Le Pavillon. His work questions the way we perceive and interpret gestures, through multiple devices. In Corps de ballet (2014), he explored the tension between the intention and the movement of the dancer. He created Movement Materials for Fondation Louis Vuitton opening (2014), Faits et gestes at PACT Zollverein (2016), Performing Art (2017) and Les Vagues (2018) as part of Festival d’Automne à Paris. As one of the CN D associate artiste, he published Actions, mouvements et gestes, a choreographic research that takes the form of a book, and created his most recent performance, Portrait de Frédéric Tavernini at CN D Pantin this spring 2019. He will be the new Director of the CNDC in Angers from January 1, 2020.