Noos

Created with Frederi Vernier – Premieres at the CND Pantin

2015

Création : Past

Synopsis

Noos is the principle of movement that animates matter.

How do two bodies create a “we”? Noos is a base and a flyer exploring the question of the relationship to the other. Giving one’s energy, carrying and being carried, sometimes supporting, sometimes supported. How far are we willing to give and to receive? Two bodies that dare to manipulate — innocently, consciously, passionately, playfully, and sometimes violently. Surrendering to the other and/or using them with both finesse and brutality. With impunity, we test the limits of the body. Justine Berthillot and Frédéri Vernier run, embrace, rise, and fall… In a fearless momentum, in opposition and in symbiosis.

Between strength and fragility, feats and release, Noos is a raw, skin-deep duet stripped of all artifice.

References

Premieres at the CND in Pantin

Authors and performers: Justine Berthillot and Frédéri Vernier
Sound design: Antoine Herniotte
Lighting design: Aby Mathieu
Outside eyes: Julie Berès and Samuel Lefeuvre
Costume design: Emmanuelle Grobet
Delegated production, administration and touring: Le Monfort Théâtre – Paris
Coproduction:
- Centre National de la Danse – Pantin
- La Passerelle – Gap
Support:
- Centre National des Arts du Cirque – Châlons-en-Champagne
- La Brèche – National Circus Center, Cherbourg
- La Cascade – National Circus Center, Bourg-Saint-Andéol
- Klap – Maison pour la danse, Marseille

Presse

Télérama sortir (TT, we really liked it).

“Articulation or disarticulation of the body, new balance, attempts at falling… Justine the flyer and Frédéri her base offer their raw, almost rough, vision of acrobatics: a physical duet that is both powerful and fragile, grounded in the full reality of the flesh.

From new support points to new risks, this promising duo might just be opening a new chapter in the history of acrobatics thanks to their highly modern creativity.”

Journal La Terrasse. February 23, 2016

“Between the base and the flyer, an unstable and impressive relationship is played out.”

Carrying / Being carried. Giving / Receiving. Frédéri Vernier as the base and Justine Berthillot as the flyer embody these oppositions through a duet of rare intensity, one where what is at stake goes beyond the body to engage the entire being. With welcome reversals, where weakness can give way to rebirth and flight. A masterful virtuosity and a long-standing complicity based on mutual support have allowed them to reach deep sincerity within themselves, and reveal the beauty of a fragile, essential bond.

ELLE. March 11, 2016

“BEAUTIFUL BODY FLIGHTS… The most romantic”

What if the world could be summed up in these two bodies: he, the base; she, the flyer — carried in a choreography that seems to contain all the laws of physics: motion, mass, gravity, resistance, inertia… A body-to-body encounter that’s part duet, part duel — magnificent and intense.

Inferno-magazine. March 17, 2015

“Noos is beautiful.

Noos is a duo. A man, a woman.

Noos is a piece where bodies and their limits are played with, with impunity.

Noos doesn’t need any frills, because from a minimum of objects, Noos extracts maximum effect.

Noos raises the question of the body and its relationship to the other. Like a philosophical essay, but with the immediacy of the senses, Noos asks whether two bodies can become a ‘we’.”

Full article: http://inferno-magazine.com