In Corps de ballet, Noé Soulier uses the vocabulary of classical ballet to make apparent its inner organization. He draws on several analyses that he unfolds spatially and temporally. By playing in the interstices, he unsettles our expectations and captures what remains usually in the background: the way the dancers approach the movement, the intimacy of contacts in pas de deux, the structural links between steps, or the border between the meaningful gestures of ballet mime and an abstract movement phrase.
© Laurent Philippe 
© Laurent Philippe
EXTRA INFO
Project year: 2014
Duration: 30min.
CREDITS
Concept & creation: Noé Soulier
Dance: Le Ballet de Lorraine
Costumes: Noé Soulier, Martine Augsbourger
Light design: Noé Soulier, Olivier Bauer
Music dramaturgy: Aurélien Azan-Zielinski
Music: 4ème mouvement de la Symphonie n°4 en Ut mineur D.417 van Schubert, scène finale de Rigoletto van Verdi (3ème acte, Gilda/ Rigoletto)
Musical arrangement: Jacques Gandard
Thanks to: Chiara Valle-Vallomini, Mark Wallinger
Musical execution: l’Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy
Production: Centre Chorégraphique National (FR), Ballet de Lorraine
Co-production: l’Opéra national de Lorraine (FR)
PROJECT DATES
14/03/2014, L’Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy (FR)