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

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

Alexandre Meyer is a composer and performer, he created the music for this piece.

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Camera operator and director graduated from the Louis Lumière school, Corinne Dardé has been making creative documentaries around art and dance since 1998, most of which have been selected by international festivals (Keep Calm, Madri e figli_Padri e figli, Gao Xingjian, La danse du corps qui parle, White Notes, ect) She collaborates in particular with choreographers, directors and musicians, to creation videos, recordings, filmed portraits. (Sandrine Maisonneuve, Anne Nguyen, Nicolas Frize, Jacques Rebotier, Collective Except Sunday, Julie Nioche, Cie 29x27, ect) She has been an associated artist in several territorial residencies for choreographers offered by Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Seine Saint-Denis, and CLEA (Local Artistic Education Contract) at CDC Val de Marne and in Arpajonnais.

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

Creative drawings by Julie Nioche were published in "32 grams of thought, an essay on graphic imagination" by Nicole Marchand-Zañartu and Jean Lauxerois, Médiapop éditions 2020

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