Stevie's music for Michele Noiret’s La chambre blanche uses new live studio recordings of her violin, hurdy gurdy & voice ("Quatuor"), as well as re-working pieces for her ensembles Sinfonye ("Transients"), studio compositions she composed using breath and skin ("Breathsong"), and extracts from her orchestral piece Iced for electronics, theremin and orchestra for originally composed for Art Zoyd and Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles.

Her interests in dance with musical improvisation and composition were influenced by informal studies with David Tudor, Merce Cunningham and John Cage and her music has been used by a number of choreographers in Europe and Australia including Pina Bausch, Yolanda Snaith, Tess de Quincy and Michele Noiret.

Conception and choreography: Michèle Noiret. Created and interpreted by Dominique Godderis, Michèle Noiret, Sarah Piccinelli, Lise Vachon. Choreographical assistant : Pascale Gigon, Music: Stevie Wishart and Todor Todoroff, Lighting: Xavier Lauwers, Scenography: Wim Vermeylen, Costumes: Patricia Eggerickx, Hairstyle and make-up: Michelle Lemaire, Artistic research: Pascal Chabot.

With bare hands, we are walking toward the being we are.
(Joseph Noiret)

A white room, as an indefinable place, impossible to reach. It is the Open, as says Rilke, « a nowhere without negation ». A place out of reach, and it is nevertheless toward it that we have to go. A room where everything may happen, above all the unexepected. It becomes the scenery in wich bodies reinvent the world, the place in wich space is sculpted by gesture.

Tour Dates

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• 26 February to 1 March 2008 Théâtre National Bruxelles Belgique
• 4 March 2008 Cultuurcentrum Brugge Belgique
• 7 March 2008 Le Vivat - Scène conventionnée d'Armentières Armentières France
• 11 March 2008 Maison de la Culture de Tournai Tournai Belgique
• 27 March 2008 Scène conventionnée de Tulle Tulle France
• 1 April 2008 Théâtre des Quatre Saisons Gradignan France
• 4 April 2008 Théâtre de Saragosse Espaces pluriels Pau France
• 5 April 2008 Scène nationale de Bayonne-Sud-Aquitain Bayonne France
• 15 May 2008 Pôle Sud Festival Nouvelles Strasbourg France
• 25 May 2008 Festival TransAmériques Montréal Canada

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