No.oN is a scenic poem that intertwines sound poetry, voice, music and choreography. It started by acknowledging a « no » ! By refusing the consent of the body that is demanded to it : its infamous « availability ». By refusing also the all-powerfulness of regular pulsations, that contradict our most surreptitious impulses.

Instead of searching why we refuse what oppresses us, or 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 ». 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 marched imposed to it, when it does not digest, when it stubbles, when it stutters. 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.

Claire Huber (FR/BE)

Claire Huber develops scenic forms at the intersection of voice, poetic text, sound and movement. She is interested in questions of musicality in the spoken voice, prosody and rhythm in their spatial, physical and sonic dimensions, as well as in contemporary forms of orality explored through different languages. She also translates poetry and curates workshops on listening and composition and sound dramaturgies.