Pièce Sans Paroles is a collaborative performance by Anne Juren, DD Dorvillier, and Annie Dorsen that approaches choreography through the structure of a theatrical play. It translates a pre written script into a wordless performance, where movement, gesture, sound, and light carry the narrative. The work emerges from a dialogue between choreography and theater. Produced by Wiener Tanz und Kunstbewegung in Vienna and human future dance corps in New York, it brings together two choreographers and a theater director to question how narrative operates without spoken language. Instead of developing dramaturgy through movement material, the project begins with an existing dramatic structure and treats it as a score for performance.

At the core of the work lies a simple but radical shift. A play is staged with full attention to timing, interactions, psychological motivations, and stage directions, yet the spoken text is removed. What remains are the physical and sensorial traces of drama. Gesture, posture, rhythm, and intensity become the primary carriers of meaning. Rather than translating text into expressive dance, the work focuses on the movements already embedded within theatrical action. These subtle and often overlooked elements form the choreographic material. The play functions as a score that organizes time and relations, while movement reveals its latent structure. Sound, music, light, and scenography develop alongside this process and take on structuring roles within the performance. The work asks how sound and light shape perception and whether they can assume functions similar to dialogue. It considers what remains when language disappears and how these remaining elements organize the experience.

Pièce Sans Paroles opens choreography to a different set of conditions by displacing language and foregrounding the physical dimension of narrative. It invites audiences to read gesture as a complex carrier of emotion and action, and to experience meaning as something that emerges through perception rather than explanation. By removing spoken text, the work creates space for multiple interpretations and shifts attention to the immediacy of the body in relation to its environment.