Claire Huber: No.oN

Artistic residency in the Old Power Station

No.oN is a piece that started by acknowledging a »no«! By refusing the consent of the
body that is demanded of a performer: their infamous »availability«. By refusing also the allpowerfulness of regular pulsations, that contradict our most surreptitious impulses. By refusing the alignment of our desires to a common law for the bodies.
However, instead of searching for why we refuse what oppresses us, or for an alternative to that
oppression, I wanted to explore the refusal itself. It seemed to me as an ill-defined signal: »I
cannot do that, my body does not want it«. Moreover, it implicitly revealed a facet of the body, the
one that says no: a facet that arises when it does not follow the onward march imposed on it,
when it does not digest, when it stumbles, when it stutters. When its materiality confronts and limits our desires, within the irregular beat of its collapses and uprisings. To my mind, that contains the possible seeds of insurrectional bodies. With that no, the body does not display an anomaly, but on the contrary a very own language, an expression of negation that is always coupled and intertwined with its most celebrated opposite: the flow, the uninterrupted onward movement, the streaming. That very own language is a language of rhythms.« […]

Claire Huber creates performances at the crossroads of oral poetry, choreography, sound and music, writes and translates poetic texts, develops dramaturgical reflections around questions of orality in its contemporary and ancient forms, and collaborates tightly with new music and sound scenes. She studied philosophy at E.H.E.S.S. (master, 2010) in Paris, and choreography and dramaturgy at Tanzfabrik (2013) in Berlin and at P.A.R.T.S. (research studios, on word x sound x movement, 2017), in Brussels. In 2020, she founded with musician Stalin Blake an artistic platform “Inflexions”, with an international and multidisciplinary vocation, where to develop experimentation, creations and reflections on performance and a search for new forms.

Direction, text and performance Claire Huber
Sound Stalin Blake
Music derived from Rebonds, by Iannis Xenakis
In dramaturgical dialogue with Alain Franco
Musical advise Jean-Luc Plouvier/ICTUS ensemble
Costume Zdravka Ivandija Kirigin (tbc)
Production Inflexions
Coproductions and partners Teatroskop/a program initiated by the Institut Français in Paris, Le Lieu Unique, Needcompany, ICTUS ensemble, de school van Gaasbeek, Huis Herman
Teirlinck, STUK, BUDA, Bunker / Old Power Station, La maison-poème, Flux
Laboratory/Athens