Hsia-Fei Chang / Noé Soulier
For this new event in the Scores (Performances) series, Noé Soulier and Hsia-Fei Chang present two performances in which the deconstruction and objectivization of gesture give the body a central position.
Noé Soulier / Idéographie
Dancer and choreographer Noé Soulier is interested in the deconstruction of dance’s vocabulary. In one of his recent choreographies, “Signe blanc,” he sampled a set of signifying gestures from the pantomime of classical ballet—gestures related to dance as much as to stage directions in the theater.
With “Idéographie,” the artist proposes a “choreography of ideas,” putting together theoretical arguments out of choreographic tools. His performance, composed of excerpts borrowed from philosophical texts, books on linguistics or cognitive sciences, and analyses, seeks to “bring together concepts and arguments so that they function as dance.”
Hsia-Fei Chang / le goût d’un été
Hsia-Fei Chang’s work is situated halfway between art, popular culture and counter-culture. One of her interests is to bring back within the realm of art some practices usually excluded from it. In 2006, for instance, her exhibition “32 portraits de la place du Tertre” at the Galerie Laurent Godin in Paris brought Montmartre artists in a space traditionally closed to them. Between personal mythology and pop culture, her performance “le goût d’un été” invites us to follow the coming of age of a young Taiwanese woman who could well have been the artist, in a tale that blends narration and popular songs.
BIOGRAPHIES
Noé Soulier was born in Paris in 1987. He studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris, in Canada’s National Ballet School and at P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios), the school directed by Anne-Teresa De Keersmaeker in Brussels. After a B.A. (“licence”) in philosophy at the Université de Nanterre (Paris X), he is currently enrolled in a Master at the Sorbonne (Paris IV). The piece “Little Perceptions” earned him the first prize in the competition Danse Élargie, organized by the Théâtre de la Ville (Paris) and the Musée de la Danse (Rennes). In 2011 he first produced “D’un pays lointain” for 4 dancers of the Ballet de l’Opéra National du Rhin. His pieces have been presented at the Spring Dance Festival (Utrecht), the Beursschouwburg (Brussels), the Centre Pompidou, the Palais de Tokyo and the Théâtre de la Ville (Paris).
Hsia-Fei Chang was born in Taipei in 1973. She lives and works in Paris. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, she took part in the post-diploma program at the École des Beaux-Arts in Nantes. Her work has been featured at the Maison Rouge, the Musée du Quai-Branly, the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, the Ecole des beaux-arts and the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Casino Luxembourg, the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Meymac, the FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, the Vancouver Biennale, the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, the Taipei Biennale and Arts Santa Monica in Barcelona. She is represented by Galerie Laurent Godin in Paris.
