Nos Solitudes

Jury Prize 2010 – Professional Union of Theatre, Music and Dance Critics

Nos solitudes is a work imagined around a suspended body.  In a new relationship to space and gravity, this body experiences solitude through this unusual reference. The dance overflows towards a scenic metaphor of our attachments, our links and our supports.

“I thought I would fall forever

hanging from a few wires, 

I lost my sense of gravity

dropped from one to the next 

I found an empty earth

separated into two parts of myself

I always keep one in the shadow

I have remained too long with my chest open, my heart guarded by others

since then I gather in my solitudes.”

Julie Nioche

Extract from the press

“Until Nos solitudes, one could think that our body was sold in a weight, having value of irrefutable constant data. Certainly. And that therefore, once suspended, if the case arose, this body with a constant weight had no more reason nor means to move. But Julie Nioche is suspended. And she never stops moving. By her own impulses, subtly modulated, controlled, she generates the necessary energies, in short additional to the weight, which will allow her to rise, to rise, to evolve, to move, to coil, to bathe, to levitate, to undulate, to sink, to unfold…” 

Gérard Mayen, Mouvement, February 2010