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Michèle Noiret full frame For 40 years, choreographer Michèle Noiret has been setting the world's questions and more intimate ones in motion. For this anniversary, the artist returns alone to the stage for a sensitive evocation of what has built her, a culture of high standards, of surpassing oneself and of beauty as a form of resistance to the violence of the world, values that she wishes to pass on to new generations.
" Brimming with energy, Michèle Noiret delivers a joyful, colourful self-portrait-autofiction in ‘Up Close! ’ "
On Saturday 18 January 2025, Michèle Noiret was the guest of Pascale Seys on Musiq3's programme “La Couleur des idées”. Click on the link to listen.
Michèle Noiret's irrepressible desire to live and dance
« We could start... like this! » And off she goes into a techno hip-hop beat that's rather unexpected, like the whole show in which she takes us from surprise to surprise. (...) Michèle Noiret takes here the stage and speaks out in a performance she pulls off masterfully. In this game of mirrors mixed with a good dose of self-derision, she questions who she really is. (...) As for the extracts from her repertoire, there are touches, snatches, and emblematic movements, but they are carried away in a whirlwind of dance that is resolutely up to date, without the slightest hint of nostalgia. (...) She gives us a performance bursting with energy and grace!. »
Dancer Michèle Noiret tells her story between fiction and reality in a captivating solo performance.
Michèle Noiret, renowned for her ‘cinematic dance’, likes to intertwine dance, music and video, but this time ‘Up Close’ favours text over video. At several times Michèle Noiret also speaks out, notably to denounce the diktat of youthism, especially with regard to the female body. At 63, she dances again and again, more magnificent than ever (...) with extreme concentration and perfectly controlled body placement to convey the desired intention and emotion. (...) Without any apparent links, the different tableaux in ‘Up Close!’ emerge like shards of a broken mirror, but each fragment of which, as they come together, gives us a better understanding of the woman behind the artist. Fascinating and high-flying. »
A self-portrait challenging age and our times In a subtle way, this solo is a multiple reflection on the body and the ageing of the dancer’s instrument. (...) Between the numerous verbal testimonies and despite the total absence of video, Michèle Noiret's body asserts its expressive power with incredible vitality. A body that is ‘more vulnerable but also more intelligent’, giving rhythm to the show with dance sequences of breathtaking beauty. An unprecedented choreography, her intimate signature for 40 years, a feline occupation of space, an ability to launch a movement and stop it "in flight". (...) Great art for a wonderful autobiographical reflection. »
A master stroke, it is exceptional for voice, music and dance to come together in such harmony. »
Cast & credits
Choreography, text and interpretation Michèle Noiret
Artistic collaboration Thierry Thieû Niang, David Drouard
Original music composition and sound technician Todor Todoroff
Additional musics : Kemuri, DJ Krush - Blackbird, Jeff Beck, L’illusionista and La passerella, Nino Rota - Eclisse Twist, Mina/Giovanni Fusco - Rain, Bernard Herrmann - György Ligeti: Sonata (Dialogo e Capriccio) for Cello I. Dialogo, Miklós Perényi - Mood Indigo, Charles Mingus - Comme je l’imagine, Véronique Sanson - Viola d'amore Concerto in A Minor, RV 397: Il. Largo, Antonio Vivaldi/Fabio Biondi & Europa Galante - Tierkreis IV. Taurus, Karlheinz Stockhausen - Lovely Head, Goldfrapp
Voices Marguerite Duras, Monica Vitti, Trisha Brown, Karlheinz Stockhausen
Lighting design Ryoya Fudetani
Costumes Patty Eggerickx
Costumes making Julie Nowak
Technical direction & lighting technician Hadrien Jeangette
Photography Michèle Noiret
Production and tour manager Morten Walderhaug
Communication and press Alexandra de Laminne
Administration and coordination Cathy Zanté
Thanks to Annette Sachs, Philippe Dewolf
Duration 60'
Production Compagnie Michèle Noiret / Tandem asbl
Coproduction Les Brigittines, Charleroi danse - Centre chorégraphique Wallonie Bruxelles
Support Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Service de la Danse, Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI), Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge - Casa Kafka Pictures Tax Shelter