Noé Soulier

Noé Soulier’s work explores choreography and dance in different settings, including the stage, museum space and theoretical reflection. He thus develops a practice that is both conceptual and deeply rooted in movement. His choreographic pieces try to activate the physical memory of spectators with movements that aim at objects or events that are absent, suggesting more than they display.

The film Fragments (2022) continues this research on the fragmentary dimension of the body’s experience by confronting it with the camera’s frame. In the choreographed exhibition Performing Art (2017), created at Centre Pompidou, museum professionals become the performers, executing careful and delicate movements to hang and install a selection of artwork from the Parisian institution’s collection. In projects such as the book Actions, mouvements et gestes (2016) and the performance Mouvement sur Mouvement (2013), he analyzes different ways to conceive movements that offer multiple methods to experience the body.

Born in Paris in 1987, Noé Soulier studied at the National Ballet School of Canada and PARTS in Brussels. He received a master’s degree in philosophy at La Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and took part in the Palais de Tokyo’s residency program: Le Pavillon. In 2010, he won the first prize of the competition Danse Élargie, organized by Le Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and Le Musée de la danse. He choreographed pieces for Ballet du Rhin (2011), Ballet de Lorraine (2014), L.A. Dance Project (2017), Lyon Opera Ballet (2021), Nederlands Dans Theater (2023) and Trisha Brown Dance Company (2023). In July 2020, he took the direction of Cndc – Angers (National Center for Contemporary Dance), a unique institution in the choreographic field that brings together a center for choreographic creation, a graduate school of contemporary dance and a dance program.