Workshop
Teaching methods
In her teaching, it is a priority for Noellie that her students learn their bodies fully so they understand the muscular and articular logics that results from it. Students must listen to their bodies and become aware of the smallest detail. They must develop awareness of the quality of each transition and body weight transfer. Respecting the articular logic of the body, Noellie likes to play with space, imprinting trajectories. She wants to go further technically, and take risks in the work of imbalance.
Clarity and simplicity are at the heart of her teaching technique. Her classes are built around the language specific to dance but explained simply. From then, students become aware of the interactions between their body and space (directions) but also their body and others. The awareness of the sustained and invigorating "center" as a motor is essential in order to bring projection and freedom to the extremities of the body. This notion is worked and reinforced with Pilates’ foundations, which are essential and crucial to the dancers. These concepts are inserted in the bar throughout the course.
These foundations in place, Noellie pushes the student towards opposite sensations. Bringing movements whose different qualities, fluid, round, or jerky support a work of lines. In order to work on various dynamics and energies, she also pays particular attention to the musicality of the movement and thus wishes to deepen that of the student.
Finally, she wants the student to explore the contact of the floor with muscle and joint relaxation to bring the concept of body weight in the ground to progress in a fluid and rapid quality of movement. it is thereafter a question of providing a quality performance, filled with energy while giving others a feeling of ease. Combining precision of lines and musicality, she wishes to project an energy, a dynamism, to paint trajectories, bringing brightness and contrast with creating an intimate link with the ground.
Noëllie wants her students to breathe and land, tap, press, twist, hold their breath, let go, oscillate, slide then float and travel.
Training teacher
After obtaining her State Diploma in 2000, Noellie taught at the "Studio Harmonic" school in Paris as a regular teacher and during international summer internships. She was also a trainer in various Parisian and provincial dance centers for the variation of the technical aptitude exam (EAT) in 2002.
In the United States, Noellie worked as a teacher of contemporary dance as part of the dancer's training at the Californian University of Los Angeles (Los Angeles School of Contemporary Dance, UCLA).
Since her return to Paris, she has worked for numerous internships in Paris at the “Studio Harmonic” as well as in the provinces for internships in various national dance centers. Today, she teaches and is a member of the pedagogic team of the "Académie internationale de danse de Paris" for the training of young professional dancers in contemporary dance.