It doesn’t feel – speaks from “here” and about “this.” “Here” is caught in a maze of words and considerations, a constant rearrangement of space that both activates and deactivates a feeling. Addressing “this” in real time and for eternity is both silent and loquacious. Therefore, indiscriminately shifting between the ordinary, the profound and the dramatically metaphysical. Searching for depths, only finding more surfaces. Content with the joy of stillness, with a deep rest, revealing an unfocused state of delectation. Nothing that tastes like anything. We are the feeling, and a feeling doesn’t feel. And yet the feeling.
Choreography & performance : Talia de Vries & Johann Nöhles Music: Aldous Harding, Heaven is empty
Talia De Vries is a choreographer and dancer. She is a graduate of P.A.R.T.S – the research program for choreographers in Brussels, and holds a bachelor's degree in performing arts from CNDC d’Angers in collaboration with Université Paris 8. Her work focuses on the space between static and moving images, between photography and dance, and between photography and cinema. She has worked with various artists in Israel and abroad, including Emmanuelle Huynh , Arkadi Zaides, Myriam Van Imschoot, Dominique Brun, Anna Wild, Vicente Colomar and Olga de Soto. She has participated in various projects in the fields of dance, performance, and theater, including the Visual Culture and Performing Arts Project of the National Library and the Batsheva Dance Company Archive Project, led by Iris Lana. Between 2017-2019, she served as co-artistic director of the Room Dances Festival, under the direction of Amos Hetz, and since 2019, she has been an assistant to film and theater director Amos Gitai. In 2020, she took part in the Forecast - Mentorship for Audacious Minds program. This is her second collaboration with Johann Nöhles.
Johann Nöhles is a French dancer and artist. He began his professional career in acrobatics and, in 2009, started studying dance at CNDC d’Angers. After completing his studies, he collaborated with various choreographers, including Emmanuelle Huynh Dominique Brun, Céline Cartillier, Madeleine Fournier, Corentin Le Flohic, Roméo Agid, David Marques, and Loïc Touzé. In 2015, he created the duet Figures together with Talia De Vries, marking their first collaboration. In 2023, he wrote the lyrics for the performance Haut Fond by Céline Cartillier, which he also accompanied as an outside eye.
