Amit Noy
Amit Noy is a choreographer, writer, and dancer. Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, he now lives and works in Marseille, France.
Eighteen months ago, the choreographer Juliana F. May and I started sending each other voice messages. I started to transcribe the messages I received, and what follows are a selection, edited for clarity and privacy. They’re an artifact of an artist’s process unfolding. You could even call them a collection of optimistic voices.
Me Seeing You Seeing Me Seeing You Seeing Me ad infinitum, until the walls break down, the plastic bags around our shoes decompose, the benches we’re sitting on decay, and the sound system breaks. Ad infinitum until there’s nothing left but the seeing and the me, no matter how unstable or temporary this arrangement ever was.
Since the death of Pina Bausch in 2009, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch has gone through five successive directors. The latest, French experimentalist Boris Charmatz, is the first choreographer in his own right. On September 8th, he premiered Liberté Cathédrale, his first work as the new leader of the company.
In Family Happiness, Juliana F. May combines formal perversity and odyssean melodies.
