Compagnie Michèle Noiret - The eye, the ear and the place

"Something has been lost, you can't see anything, you can't hear anything..." announces Michèle Noiret. This lost something is the insects. The artist imagines a future where most of these tiny but indispensable creatures have not survived the environmental disturbances caused by man. Only a few dedicated places, allowing the memory and the collective unconscious to be summoned, offer the possibility of raising awareness of the world of the past to those who have not known it. And to hope, perhaps, to see it reborn one day... Against this dystopian backdrop, the choreographer deploys a scenic writing fed by all the technological resources of dance-cinema, an art in which she is a master. Visual effects, lighting effects and Todor Todoroff's futuristic music transform the stage into a laboratory of anticipation. The dancers, Sara Tan and David Drouard, film themselves live using smartphones and engage in various sensory experiences. On the screen, their videos alternate with those of disproportionately enlarged insects, whose movements and postures inspire these two representatives of our humanity into a new carnal dialogue. Like an invitation to change scale and to re-consider an incredibly complex ecosystem, which it is important to preserve.

Michèle Noiret
Trained at Maurice Béjart's Mudra school, she founded her company in Brussels in 1986. The author of nearly 40 choreographies, she introduced interactive sound and image technologies into her creations in the 1990s, using these multiple languages to question the chaos of the world and our perceptions of space and time. Her dance reveals an inventive writing supported by a rigorous research, carried by interpreters considered as real "choreographic characters".

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