Errance
La Compagnie Kettly Noël (Haiti/ France) | choreographer: Kettly Noël
Errance set to music by Björk and famous Croatian composer Ivo Malec, is about wanting to say something and being unable to find the words. Haiti -born Kettly Noël, the winner of the Prize RFI Discovery Dance, wants to express the indescribable.
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choreographer & set designer & dancer : Kettly Noël
music : Ivo Malec et Bjork
light design: Cyril Monteil
about the performance
Wanting to say something and being unable to find the words. Expressing the indescribable. Reporting on injuries and disgrace, as well as on love and unconcern. Kettly Noël’s choreography Errance draws its vitality from its powerful, expressive character. She wants to show the transformations that take place in the body during the process of remembering. In so doing, she explores the very limits of the possible.
about the choreographer
Kettly Noël grew up in Creolian Haiti and joined Patrick Lacroix’ company at the age of 17. , In the early 1990s she set off for Paris, where she established her first very own company.
In 1996, she founded a charitable at project in Benin and worked with young people in the poor districts in Cotonou, and at the same time, Kettly Noël investigated the roots of modern African dance.
In 1999 she went to Mali where she once again established her own ensemble. In 2002, she founded a choreographic centre in the capital city of Bamako. She organised a dance festival at the centre in 2004.
Parallel with the work of the company, Noël has continued her choreographic investigations into the roots of movement and their common source. Recent works include Cousin Cousine in 2001, Tichelbe in 2002 (third prize at 5th meetings of Africa and Indian Ocean of Madagascar, Prize RFI Discovery Dance), Gaou in 2005, as well as her solo work, Errance .
