Close Up

With his original and often dazzling choreographic language, Noé Soulier is constantly exploring movement and the intention behind it. For Close Up, he constructed a score based on action verbs—catch, dodge, strike, throw... like so many impulses which will modify the gestures and trajectory of the bodies on stage. Accompanied by five musicians from the Il Convito ensemble performing some of Bach’s contrapuntal works—including his famous Art of Fugue—and employing a subtle real-time video setup, Close Up is a show that is as inventive as it is moving, eschewing all abstraction to immerse us in what the choreographer calls “a polyphony of affects.” 

Basada en El arte de la fuga de Bach, interpretada por el conjunto Il Convito, esta inventiva obra coreográfica utiliza el vídeo para revelar distintas dimensiones del cuerpo y del movimiento. Lejos de ser abstracta, Close Up es de una inventiva profundamente conmovedora. 

Interview with Noé Soulier

With Julie Charbonnier, Yumiko Funaya, Nangaline Gomis, Samuel Planas, Mélisande Tonolo, Gal Zusmanovichet
and Ensemble Il Convito : Christine Busch alternating with Sophie Gent (violin), Claire Gratton (viola da gamba), Maude Gratton (harpsichord), Amélie Michel (traverso), Ageet Zweistra (cello)
Design and choreography Noé Soulier
Musical direction Maude Gratton
Music Jean-Sébastien Bach
Lighting Kelig Le Bars
Video Pierre Martin Oriol
Set design Kelig Le Bars, Pierre Martin Oriol, Noé Soulier
Assistant choreographer Stephanie Amurao
Technical director François le Maguer
General manager Mathilde Monier
Lighting director Nicolas Bazoge
Lighting and stage assistant Martin Mouchère
Video and sound director Jérôme Tuncer

Production Adèle Thebault
Production and diffusion Céline Chouffot
Production Centre national de danse contemporaine d'Angers
Coproduction Ensemble il Convito, Festival d'Avignon, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Angers Nantes Opéra, Romaeuropa Festival (Rome), Espaces Pluriels Scène conventionnée danse (Pau), Theater Freiburg, Arsenal Cité musicale de Metz, Maison de la danse Pôle européen de création (Lyon), Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers, Chaillot Théâtre national de la danse (Paris)
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, Villa Albertine (New York), Spedidam for the 78th Festival d'Avignon
Residencies Office Artistique de la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine