Biography

At the age of 18, he joined the clown art school Le Samovar, then trained at the  SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in Amsterdam. He uses pantomime for D’un pays lointain, the vocabulary of classical ballet in Le Royaume des ombres or the role of canonical and mirror neurons in finalizing actions with Petites Perceptions. Winner of the first prize of the Dance at its Broadest 2010 competition Noé Soulier definitely gets the whole body, including the brains, to dance. His arguments are grounded in cognitive topics, they explore the visual or kinaesthetic perception of movement thus inevitably entailing a consciousness of vision inseparably linked with its destabilzation. “It is precisely the tensions between movement, language and sensation that interests me”  D’un pays lointain. By unravelling the implicit codes of the grammar of bodily movement and of the classical ballet vocabulary, he intends to make us apprehend “the space between the different messages, the visible and the audible.”