Noémie Solomon

Noémie Solomon works as a teacher, writer, dramaturge, and curator in the field of contemporary dance and performance. She edited the collections DANSE (an anthology and a catalogue published by Presses du réel, 2014 and 2015) that translate and present key texts on the somatic and linguistic trades between Francophone and North American choreographic cultures. Her essays and translations have been published in various journals such as Dance Research Journal, Dance Chronicles, TDR, Movement Research, and Maska; in the critical anthologies Planes of Composition (ed. Joy and Lepecki, Seagull Press) and Perform Repeat Record (ed. Heathfield and Jones, Intellect Press); and art catalogues such as Superbodies (Lido), Move: Choreographing You (Hayward), Judson Now (Danspace), Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol (TBA), and Boris Charmatz (MoMA).

She collaborated on a series of dramaturgical and curatorial initiatives in the dance field internationally, including: the redoing of Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 parts, directed by André Lepecki (Haus der Kunst, 2006; PERFORMA 2007); Dance on Time with Gurur Ertem (iDANS, Istanbul, 2009); Self-Methodologies with Sandra Noeth (Tanzquartier, Vienna, 2011); the Photomusée de la danse with Tim Etchells (Festival d'Avignon, 2011); Solos and Solitudes with Jenn Joy (Danspace Project, NYC, 2012-13); and Dancing is talking / Talking is dancing with Jenny Schlenzka (MoMA PS1, NYC, 2014); Rituals of Care with Stephanie Rosenthal (Gropius Bau, Berlin). Car c’est par la fragilité que la revolution œuvre, a dance work co-created with Adam Kinner, premiered in Montréal in May 2016.

Noémie’s PhD dissertation, “Unworking the Dance Subject,” was awarded the Michael Kirby Memorial Prize for Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation at NYU in 2012. She held two consecutive Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowships: at McGill University, in the English department, where she researched issues of minority and sovereignty in Québécois dance after 1948, and at Brown University, in the TAPS department, as part of the Dance in/and the Humanities national initiative. Noémie is Director of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance.