DÉSIRS

In Tierkreis (Zodiac), a score for clarinet and piano, Michèle Noiret designs a diaphanous choreography, woven into the details, which seems to be written in the instant of her appearance. Tight little steps, faint whisperings, seemingly from distant echoes, traces of memory that pass through her body as if to reassure her. In the fullness of her art, each line she draws is of a strength, a clarity that lightens up the meanders of the choreographic language. She dances as she breathes, to the extent that one ends up forgetting that these delicate, elusive curves are not everyday movements. She gives to her body language a significance that time cannot exhaust. Like these parchments that carry under their sentences other words, rubbed out but present, she is this transitory being of infinite lightness, but also this elegant woman who displays stylised yet intelligible fragments in a fascinating choreography. Joined at the end by David Drouard, who must take up the solo, a more nervous duo is distilled, nevertheless in the subtle tonality of this musical poetry that Michèle Noiret assembles in front of our eyes.”