Julie Nioche

Julie Nioche is a dancer, choreographer and osteopath.

A graduate of the CNSMD – Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in 1996, she has worked as a dancer with Odile Duboc, Hervé Robbe, Meg Stuart, Alain Michard, Catherine Contour, Emmanuelle Huynh, Alain Buffard, Jennifer Lacey. From 1996 to 2007, she co-directed the association Fin Novembre with Rachid Ouramdane, where she participated in joint projects and initiated her own. She also set up numerous more informal research mechanisms.

In 2007, with collaborators from different professional backgrounds, Julie Nioche participated in the creation of A.I.M.E. – Association d’Individus en Mouvements Engagés. Since then, the association has been accompanying her artistic projects and working on the dissemination of knowledge about the body in society.

Julie Nioche works on dance as a place of research to make visible sensibilities and imaginary.  Each creation is a project of experimentation, which pays particular attention to the process, to the path leading to the realization. The pieces are questions that offer the space for debate and exchange. Dance is a meeting place.

Julie Nioche’s choreographies are far from any narrative exercise. She works with the history of professional or non-professional bodies; thus dance exposes itself to living bodies, erasing the ordinary limits of the stage. Her works start from an attention to the imaginary which builds our identity and our sensibility: all these images which make possible or impossible our projections, our movements, our ideas and our acts.

She also gives a radical place to the scenography, the music, the light, which are built simultaneously with the dance to make visible this sensitivity by other points of view. Like an ecosystem, all the elements are at the same time autonomous and interdependent, which creates a particular sensitive listening.

Her goal is to create works that she calls “environmental”, that is to say, works that seek to envelop the spectators enough to awaken their empathy through their own sensations, their own imaginations and memories.

Julie Nioche involves the dancers with whom she collaborates in sensory dances that engage their intimacy in movement, which is, in her eyes, the forgotten dimension of the political fabrication of bodies.

Creations

2001 XX / 2003 La Sisyphe- Les Sisyphe / 2005 H2O-NaCl-CaCO3 / 2006 Matter of fact – Women’s matter / 2007 Héroïnes / 2008 Matter / 2009 No matter – Lost Matter – Protected space / 2010 Nos solitudes – Brèves suspensions / 2010 Central Park / 2011 Contes tordus / 2012 Voleuse / 2013 Sensationnelle / 2014 En Classe / 2014 Matter (re-creation) / 2016 Nos Amours / 2017 Qu’est-ce qui vous amène? / 2018 The Size of Our Souls – Ritual for a Geography of the Sensitive – The Inner Hour / 2020 – Wave Inside Wave – L’Impassé-e / 2021 – Une échappée – Danse Passante / 2022 – Doers