Anna Massoni

“Man is the half-open being”, wrote Gaston Bachelard. In this piece, Anna Massoni opens a door into her personal world. Constructed around the idea of porosity between the interior and exterior of the body, Notte stages the dancer and choreographer’s body and voice in a finely poised creation. In this piece, which she describes as a “choreography of detail”, movements meet murmurs, breaths and humming. Gestures, actions and song are articulated in a space opened up by a lighting design imagined by the choreographer’s sister, Angela Massoni. Between openness and closure, revelation and obscurity, Notte probes intimacy and solitude, and seeks to affect the spectator’s perception by superimposing a layer of the imaginary over reality. Driven by Anna Massoni’s desire to concentrate on her own writing after a series of collective pieces, Notte was developed largely in residence at the CN D, where she benefits from a long-format residency.

Having trained in contemporary dance at the CNSMD in Lyon, the dancer and choreographer Anna Massoni worked as a performer with Noé Soulier, Simone Truong and Cindy Van Acker. She created Ornement (2016) with Vania Vaneau and (To) Come and See (2015) with Simone Truong, Adina Secretan, Elpida Orfanidou and Eilit Marom. She is currently associated with Vincent Weber within Association 33e parallèle, which supports their respective works.