A suit of dances - A day in the studio
In A suit of dances - A day in the studio, Noé Soulier brings Noa Eshkol’s revolutionary movement system back to life – in the bodies of today.
Noa Eshkol believed that dance need not illustrate anything: no story, no music, just bodies entering into relationships in space. In the 1950s, together with architect Avraham Wachman, she developed a system for notating movement. Using symbols, numbers and geometric structures, she mapped the body as a moving whole in space and time.
Festival Julidans
Programme section Julidans On Stage
Dutch premiere
Location Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
Venue Rabozaal
Run 75 minutes, incl. intermission
Genre Dance
A suit of dances - A day in the studio
In A suit of dances, Soulier engages in a dialogue with these ideas. The vision he creates on the stage is not a reconstruction, but a living response: a choreography born from the encounter between Eshkol’s system and the bodies of today.
These bodies belong to the Dance On Ensemble from Berlin, a company of dancers aged forty and over. Their work explores how movement changes over time — how it is remembered, carried and reactivated.
-|-The performance is part of a series in which choreographers respond to key figures from dance history. Previously, Mathilde Monnier and Tim Etchells engaged in dialogue with Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham respectively. This creates a continuous thread in which tradition and innovation continue to question one another.
Noé Soulier
Noé Soulier is a French choreographer and thinker who approaches dance as a means of exploring movement and meaning. His work moves between choreography, theory and the visual arts and is presented internationally at festivals, in theatres and museums. He has received several major awards, including the Danse Élargie Prize (2010), the title of Choreographic Personality of the Year (2024) and the SACD Prize for Choreography (2025). He has also created work for, among others, the Nederlands Dans Theater.
Credits
Artistic Direction Ty Boomershine
Choreography Noa Eshkol, Noé Soulier (Choreographer and Director of Cndc Angers)
Staging Mor Bashan (Noa Eshkol Foundation)
Performance Alba Barral Fernández, Anna Herrmann, Dominic Santia, Marco Volta, Lia Witjes Poole
Production DANCE ON / Bureau Ritter
In collaboration with Cndc Angers
Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation)
Funded by Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media)
Part of DanceMap, funded by Horizon Europe, the European Union’s programme for research and innovation
DANCE ON is a project by BUREAU RITTER, funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
