© Marc Domage

2:30 pm (15 min)

With Nans Pierson and Noé Soulier
Two dancers reproduce as precisely as possible Brazilian jiu-jitsu bouts. The fact that they collaborate rather than oppose each other transforms the nature of their actions, creating multi-faceted interpretations. This collaboration takes the form of mutual constraint engendering the sequence of movements.

See Noé Soulier at the Théâtre d’Orléans: Noé Soulier, Tuesday, March 31 and Wednesday, April 1, 8:30 pm

Noé Soulier studied at the Paris Conservatory, the National Ballet School of Canada, and at PARTS in Brussels. He obtained a master’s degree in philosophy at the Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and participated in the Palais de Tokyo’s residency program Le Pavillon. His work explores choreography and dance through multiple mechanisms. His pieces attempt to activate the spectators’ body memory with movements that target absent objects or events, at the same time suggesting more than displaying. In 2020, he will take over as director of the CNDC in Angers.

Nans Pierson, born in Lorraine in 1988, studied at the Paris Opera. After a year with the San Franciso Ballet’s Trainee Program, he danced for 4 years in the corps de ballet of the Opéra de Paris. He then devoted himself to contemporary dance. He has been working for 6 years with choreographer Noé Soulier on the perception and interpretation of movement and for 3 years with choreographer Eric Minh Cuong Castaing on the relationship between dance, new technology and bodies in situ in social situations. Questioning the environment in which we live, he performs in public spaces through the project Estrans, led by Capucine Dufour and Marie Delaite.