COMPAGNIE MICHÈLE NOIRET

“Something is lost, you cannot see anything, you cannot hear anything …” announces Michèle Noiret. What is gone, is the insects. This artist imagines a future where most of these tiny but indispensable creatures have not survived our man-made environmental disruption. Only a few dedicated places, where memory and the collective unconscious may be summoned, offer the possibility of raising awareness of the world before among those who never knew it. And to hope, perhaps, that we may see it reborn one day … Around this dystopian plot, the choreographer deploys a scenic writing nourished by all the technological resources of dance cinema, an art of which she is a veritable master. Visual effects, lighting and futuristic music by Todor Todoroff transform the set into a science-fiction laboratory. Filming each other live with smartphones, the performers Sara Tan and David Drouard give themselves over to various sensory experiences. On screen, their videos alternate with those of excessively enlarged insects, whose movements and postures inspire a new carnal dialogue in these two representatives of our humanity. Like an invitation to change scale and reconsider an incredibly complex ecosystem, which must be preserved.

Michèle Noiret

Trained at Maurice Béjart’s Mudra school, she founded her company in Brussels in 1986. As the author of nearly 40 choreographies, she has introduced the interactive technologies of sound and image to her creations since the 90s and questions the chaos of the world through these multiple languages, as well as our perceptions of space and time. Her dance reveals an inventive writing supported by rigorous research, carried out by performers considered true “choreographic characters”.