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?

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

For more information: www.individus-en-mouvements.com

Ariana Aragno is a dancer who collaborated in the creation of this piece.

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Trained as an architect, the visual artist, video artist and scenographer Laure Delamotte-Legrand carries out a multi-dimensional work, paying particular attention to space and the body.

During her studies, she discovered the notion of the genius of place, which has had a lasting impact on her work - the question of context is essential in her creative process. In addition to this, she is interested in the analysis of movement: sensitive to dance since childhood, she nourished her career with a DEA in Theatrical and Choreographic Studies at the University of Paris VIII.

Since her beginnings, she has occasionally directed workshops in plastic arts and scenography, in partnership with numerous cultural structures in the visual arts or the performing arts, these times of transmission and exchange with various audiences tinting her vision of others and the world. For seven years, she also curated exhibitions for contemporary art events, before devoting herself exclusively to her creation.

The presence of the body, and more precisely the gesture, is at stake in her solo works as well as in her collaborations with the contemporary dance milieu, in which video plays an essential role. She likes to define herself as a visual artist of gesture and dance. Among the many French or foreign choreographers with whom Laure Delamotte-Legrand works, we can mention Julie Nioche, Thierry Thieû Niang, Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh, Shifts art in movement, Du vivant sous les plis, Lisa Da Boit, Pierre Droulers, Mustafa Kaplan. In parallel to the creations in which she takes part, the artist puts her vision of video gesture at the service of choreographers for the video recording of their pieces.

The identity of her creations is hybrid; objects, photographs, performances and videos are gathered in devices or installations, presented for about fifteen years in art centers, choreographic centers, national stages or in situ. These multiple supports are as many complementary facets to tell a context, to depict a sensitive atmosphere, to translate one or several encounters. 

The meeting of the other and his gestural testimony are indeed also part of the fundamentals of his creative process.

For more information: www.laure-delamotte-legrand.org

Developing the poetics of dancing bodies

A.I.M.E. was launched by Julie Nioche in 2007, from the beginning, the association was supported by a collective of cultural actors, researchers, artists and somatic practitioners.

The Association d'Individus en Mouvements Engagés carries its artistic projects on stage and in situ, as well as the resource center for socially and physically engaged artistic projects (PasKe) in collaboration with Isabelle Ginot and Stéphanie Gressin.

The artistic projects

All the projects initiated by Julie Nioche work on dance as a place of research to make visible sensibilities and imaginary. She explores the relationship as an artistic act through the sharing of sensitive experiences and works with the history of professional and non-professional bodies.

Her works start from an attention to the imaginary which builds our identity and our sensitivity for poetic and political dances.

The resource center for socially and physically engaged artistic projects (PasKe)

A.I.M.E. defends the equality of value between works for the stage and works in situ: projects addressed to other audiences and social spaces.

 A.I.M.E. believes in a dance that poses gesture and sensitivity as common knowledge, destined to circulate through the bodies of all and founding emancipation practices. 

A.I.M.E. brings dance and its knowledge to meet the fields of social, medical and educational work through a work on the cultures of gesture and the representations of the body.

www.individus-en-mouvements.com

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