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Michèle Noiret confirms her sense of construction in this creation . The quintette, wich is organized around five solos, is a sort of demonstration of a language for a company.No distraction, no scenery, black unisex clothes, lighting refined but cold; Les Plis de la Nuit does not hide a certain taste for austerity. In a way, it is concerned with the constant reconstruction of group unity while simultaneously assuring an affirmation of the individual. Up to and including the film, which combines the dancers and their own images the work points out how identity also gains by the risk which is inherent in one’s reflection. Metaphor...which causes the company of dancers to become an allegory for the whole social body. Les Plis de la Nuit is a grave lesson in optimism.»
Michèle Noiret knows how to choose her dancers and highlight their personalities...quite obviously Michèle Noiret knows how communicate her dance. And not just any dance it is. The clever, complex choreography is in service of a generous and precious dance work. Inspired by the work of the engraver Maurice Pasternak, the choreographic line causes dazed, almost hollowed out figures to appear suddenly from an obscure labyrinth-like world. And yet, after decomposition and recomposition, it’s through them that the choreographer reinvents relationships that are close, elegant and animal. It is a work centered around support and the absence of that support. Staggering.»
Michèle Noiret’s Les Plis de la Nuit is the most astonishing and unexpected of dance performances presented recently in Stuttgart. A surrealistic event..., which disconcerted the audience...Its strange danced scenes vibrating withunderlying electricity, exert an irresistible attraction without energy giving away its inner workings. In amazing ways the dancers find themselves in fluid ensembles and thanks to projected images, multiplied and merged into a whole.»
Les Plis de la Nuit is a very strange piece with a richness of language that evokes the complicated nature of the relations between five individuals. As if refusing traditional supports or not being able to find them,... the individual dancers, or groups of dancers are constantly in an atmosphere of changing place. Disarticulated, decomposed, in order to be reinvented within an extremely delicate choreographic language, Michèle Noiret’s dance work isolates the details just as well as... moving around the quintette in sensitive manipulations or more animal-like locking of horns. In the folds of a moonless night, the choreographer invents a dream-walking, awe-struck dance of unpretentious elegance, itself embodied by the secretive, silent and forcefully present dancers...»
Lunar wanderings on a dark night. Michèle Noiret has created the folds in the night; a fantastic tableau. Refined. In a poetic, dusky no man’s land, Michèle Noiret cautiously designs the comings and goings, the rhythms and impromptu encounters, the magnetic unisons. She designs it all, right up to the hand’s spasm which escapes from the body. She shifts everyday gestures and combines their hiatus. The choreographer’s choice to be absent from the stage herself has matured her regard, which she demonstrates by her mastery of the time and the space in which she developes her choreography. She has minutely fashioned her scenes and made the links between her unusual, complex associations. She has cloaked the stage with a screen on which play out apparitions and disappearances, offering quick-moving clouds and the phantom-like image of the dancers upon its surface. She has worked a strangeness into the theatricality of the group and a forlorness into the characters whose minds are preoccupied elsewhere.»
Intrigued by the world of shadows and ghostly light, Michèle Noiret brings it to life without falling into the trap of illustration. Demanding, eminently personal, her choreographic language gives birth to movement wich is nourished by extremely precise technique, while at the same time saturated with a fascinating sensibility.(...)
Each dancer supplies captivating moments : Emilio Gutiérrez in his mind-boggling solo, Jammal Larbi in his encounter with his shadow, Guy Vaizman in constant struggle with a numbness of the soul, Martine Lunshof and Celia Hope-Simpson, delicate and disturbing explorers of the body’s limits.»
Cast & credits
Choreography Michèle Noiret
Assistant to choreography Karine Ponties
Artistic collaboration Maurice Pasternak
Created and interpreted by Emilio Gutiérrez, Celia Hope-Simpson, Jammal Larbi, Martine Lunshof or Karine Ponties, Guy Vaizman or Mauro Pacccagnella
Music Bernard Parmegiani
Original compositions David Linx
Light design Xavier Lauwers
Costumes Colette Huchard assisted by Patricia Eggerickx
Technical direction Florence Richard
Images Aldo Piscina
Production Christophe Slagmuylder
Tour manager Geneviève Crémer
Production Cie Michèle Noiret/Tandem asbl
Coproduction Le Botanique/Centre culturel de la Communauté française de Belgique, Charleroi/Danses, Centre Chorégraphique de la Communauté française de Belgique
With the support of la Communauté française de Belgique - Service de la Danse, et de la Commission Communautaire française.