What do dancers become on aging, and what are all the experiences they  have had? On discovering the career of the dancer Frédéric Tavernini,  who had worked for Maurice Béjart, Mats Ek, Trisha Brown, William  Forsythe, or Angelin Prejlocaj, Noé Soulier wanted to draw up a portrait  of him: a personal history in which gestures express the works that had  been traversed – marking their accents, points and articulations.  Between perception and the signification of movement, Noé Soulier  pursues his work of deciphering dance by examining this time the  descriptive value of a gesture: can a dancer’s body expose a dance, show  it and narrate it, without executing it? As the questions proceed, the  gaze is led to reconstitute the memory of these dances, from the signs  they have left behind in the flesh of the performer. By following  Frédéric Tavernini step by step, Noé Soulier draws up a story revealing  the implicit discourse of movement.

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Born in Paris in 1987, 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 Palais de Tokyo’s residency program: Le Pavillon.
 

In 2010, he won the first prize of the competition Danse Élargie, organized by Le Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and Le Musée de la Danse with the trio « Little Perceptions » in which he started an ongoing research on ways of defining movement. With the solo « Movement on Movement » (2013), he dissociates gestures from speech to question how they collaborate to create meaning.
 

In 2014, he explored the syntax of ballet vocabulary with « Corps de ballet » for the CCN – Ballet de Lorraine. In « Movement Materials » (2014) and « Removing » (2015), he develops further the research initiated with Little perceptions on the perception and interpretation of movement.
 

In October 2016, he publishes « Actions, mouvements et gestes », a choreographic research that takes the form of a book, with the press of the Centre national de la danse.

In July 2020, he has taken over the direction of the Centre national de danse contemporaine d’Angers (CNDC).
 

Source: CNDC Angers

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Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).