First memory

On a daily basis we observe countless movements: a hand grabbing something or avoiding something, an arm passing something to someone. In our memory these movements are often reduced to their purpose, to the reason for which they were executed, but what is the complexity of their life? With First Memory, Noé Soulier – one of the most innovative choreographers active today, and present at the festival for the first time – builds a choreography that diverts daily movements from their initial function, through eight performers and a powerful and meticulous composition of gestures. For it he collaborates with visual artist Thea Djordjadze: her sculptures seem to recall something functional; they insistently refer to something, but stop just before whatever-it-is becomes recognisable; they open up an incredibly poetic space in which our imagination moves. Accompanied by the music composed for this creation by Karl Naegelen, performed and recorded by Ictus, the stage becomes a forest of bodies and sculptures in motion, a woven choreography composed of human and non-human gestures, of movements and moments of suspension. First Memory takes us on a journey into the uniqueness and elusiveness of everyday movements.