Les arpenteurs

Les danseurs s’approprient l’espace dans lequel ils évoluent par les mouvements de leur corps et l’énergie de leur gestuelle, dans une ville qui laisse voir l’intimité des êtres. Une ville qu’ils arpentent, tantôt solitaires, à la recherche d’eux-mêmes…

Surveying has always linked body and space. When the surveyor measured distances with his thumb, hand, elbow, arm or stride, he used his body to know the limits of his space. The dancers of Les Arpenteurs, Michèle Noiret’s new choreography, have borne in mind the meaning of this approach. They too appropriate, in their own way, the space in which they evolve through the movements of their body and the energy of their gestures, in a city that reveals the intimacy of beings. A town that they tread, at times alone, trying to find themselves, at times involved in strange encounters. 

The city in question is a metaphor to access what is human, to question one’s inner life, one’s perceptions and sensuality, but also one’s failings, doubts and fears. More than just interpreters, the seven dancers try to add to their technical virtuosity an expressive capacity, a radiance that make them genuine “choreographic characters”. They are not alone on the stage. Amongst them, around them, the six musicians from the Percussions de Strasbourg interpret the score that François Paris has created specially for this show. His composition opens up musical worlds of an astonishing richness and draws from the range of instruments of the Percussions de Strasbourg, formed in particular by the famous “Sixxen” invented for them by the composer Xenakis, sounds and chords that give life to this imaginary city and the people passing through it. Dance and music intermingle, respond to and stimulate each other.

Source : Michele Noiret