HOW TO. A SCORE
ABOUT HOW TO : A SCORE
SPIRALES was created by Julie Nioche in response to an invitation from Mia Habib, a choreographer and dancer based in Oslo – Norway with her company (Mia Habib Productions).
In 2019, Mia Habib imagined a community and solo score for the project HOW TO. A SCORE.
She sent it to six dance artists from six different countries. Each then worked with a local community in their respective countries, then developed a solo.
These six solos were presented together for the first time in Oslo in 2022 at the Dance house and Black Box theater.
Today, you’re going to discover one of these solos.
For SPIRALES, Julie has chosen to work with children affected by various mental disorders, precariousness and exclusion, in their schools between Nantes and Le Mans.
These other artists are:
- Thami Hector Manekehla (Soweto, South Africa), who has worked with young club dancers in Soweto who have no memory of apartheid.
- Thais Di Marco (São Paulo, Brazil), both young priestess and contemporary queer Roma artist, who explored the relationship between the score and the traditional rituals of her indigenous Candomblé community.
- Tommy Noonan (Saxapahaw, USA), who has worked with Black Lives Matter activists, artists and restorative justice specialists on racial and economic issues in the American South.
- Filiz Sızanlı (Eskişehir, Turkey) who worked with a group of elderly people in her city.
- Mia Habib, who chose to work with young men from building and constuction highschools, with whom she opened up a space for dreams and imagination, reflecting on different futures in the face of the phenomenon of gentrification in European cities.
For these first performances of SPIRALES in France, Julie Nioche has also teamed up with Anne Chevalme, shiatsu practicer also engaged in cultural accessibility, for a version adapted and performed with her in Langue des Signes Françaises / French Sign Language.
THE LIVING ARCHIVE - installation
Spatialized by Palestinian scenographer Liam Al Zafari, this installation offers an insight into each artist’s work with their chosen communities. It includes traces and documentation of their processes.
