In the fall | Working Title | For M.G. : The Movie
Noé Soulier
Trisha Brown
© Sandy Korzekwa
In 2024, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting the Trisha Brown Dance Company in the creation of a program featuring In the Fall by Noé Soulier and Working Title by Trisha Brown, and the Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi and the Berliner Festspiele in the presentation of this program.
In a celebration of Trisha Brown’s rich body of work, her company presents two pieces which are a statement of the variety of questions and motifs explored throughout her dances. In the Fall, a creation by the choreographer Noé Soulier for the company’s performers, prolongs this journey – bridging the gap between living archive and present gestures.
Since Trisha Brown passed away in 2017, her company, directed by Carolyn Lucas continues to bring life to her legacy through its wide-ranging repertory. From her early forays into the realms of American post-modern dance up to her large-scale works for the Opera, Trisha Brown profoundly redefined the landscape of choreographic creation through her fluid approach to movement. In order to celebrate the links between the choreographer and France, the Trisha Brown Dance Company presents two pieces which bear witness to this fertile relationship: For MG: The Movie, a piece tainted with melancholy, dedicated to the memory of Michel Guy, the Festival d’Automne’s founder; and Working Title, which draws upon unexpected, asymmetrical motifs and confronts bodies relationship to gravity. Noé Soulier’s commission In the Fall echoes the radiance of this work today. For him, the ‘Brownian-movement’ outmaneuvers the geometric paradigm of modern dance and necessitates a deep-seated decentering of physical points of reference. By entering into dialogue with the work of Trisha Brown, he seeks to experience the living archive in existence within the company’s performers but also to confront them with the impulse of his own choreographic principles.
Photo : Working Title by Trisha Brown © Sandy Korzekwa
About the artists
© Johan Elbers
Trisha Brown
In 2025, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels presents in collaboration with Sadler's Wells Working Title by Trisha Brown in a double bill as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef festival in London. The initiative is also supporting La Villette for the presentation of Twelve Ton Rose by the American choreographer as part of a programme performed by Opera Ballet Vlaanderen.
© Wilfried Thierry
Noé Soulier
In 2025, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels presents the pieces by Noé Soulier In the Fall in collaboration with Sadler's Wells and Close Up in collaboration with Royal Ballet and Opera as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels festival in London.
