Doers

DOERS proposes to go through the experience of the improvisation of this duet to awaken our power to act from our imagination, and to share the dance in the making.

At the origin of DOERS, Julie Nioche’s attraction to the life and work of Lisa Nelson who introduced her to PA RT created with Steve Paxton in 1978. 

The choices made by these artists, who went to work outside the classical American creative networks, in relation to nature and improvised writing, resonate with her.

She is also touched by the apparent simplicity of their dance encounters. 

She observes the power of their ever-renewed dances, reoxygenated by sensations, their very precise rules of play and the thoughts present at the time of these meetings. 

They call themselves “doers”. 

They act by dancing. And simply share their knowledge and practices.

How does this piece look at us today from an artistic, personal, political and societal point of view? 

How do we let ourselves be impregnated by the gestures of others? 

And how do these gestures awaken our secret convictions? 

What we have tried to capture with this work are the ghosts that emanate from their gestures, from their presence in our own today. 

DOERS is the starting point of PODERE, a polymorphic project that Julie Nioche is developing from 2020 to 2024. Podere means “to be able” in popular Latin. She manifests within different dance devices (DANSE PASSANTE, PODERE – Être feu…) the power of collective actions and asks the question of what are we capable of? 

What is dance capable of?