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With this piece conceived for the Ballet de Lorraine, Belgian choreographer Michèle Noiret deepens once more her dialogue between the dancers and their amplified images. De deux points de vue makes a direct link between live actions and their echoes projected in the same movement, creating a disturbing effect of dramatic depth. Equipped with electronic sensors that immediately send images to the cameras – a visual device of Fred Vaillant’s – the dancers are duplicated over and over, like clones. Regular partner, Todor Todoroff creates a soundtrack from the sounds generated by the dancers, which are worked on in the studio.»
This piece marks the meeting between the demanding Belgian choreographer Michèle Noiret and the highly active troupe Ballet de Lorraine, slimmed down here to two dancers, multiplied by computers. The dancers, a woman and a man, are equipped with sensors that transmit data processed partly in real time, musically and choreographically.»
For two dancers of the Ballet de Lorraine, who are remarkable and endowed with great presence, Michèle Noiret has created a choreographic piece that plays out in a strange set in which the performers appear and hide in turn. Their bodies and this set being equipped with sensors, it is the movements of the dancers that influence the intensity and nature of the sounds. But beyond this technical aspect, real poetry is released from this piece, dramatic poetry that turns the dancers into two figures in an anguished, glacial world.»
The combination of movement capture technologies and choreographic writing sometimes confines itself to technical performance. With De deux points de vue, Michèle Noiret has succeeded with it, by creating a world in which the dancers interact with sound and vision systems in a creation with similarities to movie editing in real time. Far from restricting herself to demonstrating gadgets that enable the dancers to interact with sound and image through changes of speed, of spaces, of precise movements, together with the video – Fred Vaillant – and sound – Todor Todoroff – designers the choreographer delivers a piece calibrated to within a pixel. (...) Everything is articulated in a sentiment of ubiquity for the audience, which is given a taste of interactivity. The audience is no longer simply in a receiving position, the choreographic writing and multimedia of Michèle Noiret creates a new experience: immersion.»
A choreographer, a sound engineer compositor, an image conceiver videomaker, two dancers: that is the core of this new creation of Michèle Noiret. (…) There is accord but also discord in this ‘tiered’ duo. There are whispers and laughter, silhouettes and shadows, sighs and shudders, speed and suspensions in this show conceived as a mille-feuilles. Where movement generates sound and sound diffracts images, to a blur, almost to the abstract, like a crowd can become abstract, frightening, beautiful, when suddenly one stops within its midst. Where the individual and their double question each other with a look. Where trouble reigns alongside the heart’s impulses. Where the harshness of the form never prevents the journey of thought.»
On the high steel wall, moving shadows seem to want to suck us in behind them. Soon a window opens in the half-light. A woman’s silhouette appears, disappears. We glimpse it from time to time in flesh and blood. We follow its recorded developments live, on the metal wall transformed into a screen. We no longer know what is real and what is not. Then an arm looms up. A man. What are these two beings? Are they living through a passionate love, a stormy break-up, a simple animated discussion? (…) It proves to be mysterious, captivating, sensual, violent sometimes. (…) It’s both poetic and puzzling like a journey in weightlessness in a universe of sensations, emotions. (…) Achieving such a result demands all the technical mastery of a close-knit team. We know the long work that Michèle Noiret has undertaken for several years with Todoroff and Vaillant. Christophe Béranger and Florence Viennot are perfectly integrated. The success of this piece of which they are interpreters but also instruments and co-creators, is hugely in their debt.»
Cast & credits
Scenic writing and choreography Michèle Noiret
Assistant Compagnie Michèle Noiret Dominique Godderis & Lise Vachon
Assistant CCN Jarmo Pentilla
Interpretation Christophe Béranger and Florence Viennot
Video creation Fred Vaillant
Video technician Thierry Louis
Conception and programmation of video's interactions Fred Vaillant
Original music Todor Todoroff
Sound technician Bruno Billaudeau
Conception and programmation of sound's interactions Todor Todoroff
Lighting designer Xavier Lauwers
Lighting technician Olivier Bauer
Scenography Philippe Hekkers
Costumes Martine Augsbourger and Phaly Yoeurng
Thanks to Matthieu Guénégou, Isael Mata and Lise Vachon, dancers of Compagnie Michèle Noiret,
for their contribution.
Co-production CCN – Ballet de Lorraine • Compagnie Michèle Noiret / Tandem asbl • L’Autre Canal • le manège.mons/CECN • le manège.maubeuge • le manège.mons/Centre Dramatique • TechnocITé.
With the support of the Ministère de la culture de la Communauté française de Belgique Wallonie-Bruxelles dans le cadre de Luxembourg 2007 Capitale européenne de la Culture, du CGRI, du programme Interreg 3 co-financé par le FEDER.
With the support of ARTE Belgique.
Le CCN – Ballet de Lorraine is subsided by le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, la Direction régionale des Affaires Culturelles de Lorraine, le Conseil Régional de Lorraine, la ville de Nancy. L’Autre Canal est un Etablissement Public de Coopération Culturelle regroupant l’Etat / le Ministère de la Culture / la Direction régionale des Affaires Culturelles de Lorraine, le Conseil Régional de Lorraine et la Ville de Nancy.
Michèle Noiret is member of the Académie royale de Belgique.