Dance Among the Water Lilies • Noé Soulier & CNDC Angers, Grabbing, Pushing, Thrusting

7 pm and 8.30 pm, Salle des Nymphéas

June 02nd, 2025
Noé Soulier
© Alexandre Guirkinger

In duos, the dancers embrace one another’s bodies while grabbing their own, a principle borrowed from Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Without countering each other, but rather by collaborating through their movements, they gradually transform the nature of their actions, providing them with multiple interpretations. This constraint and mutual trust generates creation of truly surprising choreography.

With Monet’s imposing panels as a background, the choreography of Grabbing, Pushing, Thrusting is inspired by Brazilian jiu-jitsu, producing choreographic phrases developed from specific actions: Avoid someone who avoids, pitch parts of your body as if they could detach themselves and proliferate in space, grab the other while grabbing yourself, rush towards movements that never materialize, strike with the most fragile parts of your body… The performers have explored these paradoxical instructions in order to capture the qualities of movements produced by such practical actions. The absence of any immediate recognition of the final goal enables us to come up with a whole range of associations. The bodies form multiple configurations as they grasp each other. They can just as easily evoke a plant or animal arrangement as a sensual intertwining and the erotic and violent aspects of this collaborative struggle.

Conceptual and corporal, physical and reflexive alike, Noé Soulier’s approach brings a broader definition to choreography.
 

Noé Soulier
Noé Soulier
© Alexandre Guirkinger

 

Choreography: Noé Soulier
Performers: Stephanie Amurao, Nans Pierson, Julie Charbonnier
Produced by: CNDC-Angers (National Center for Contemporary Dance), directed by Noé Soulier

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