After a brief spell at Sciences Po Paris, Noémie Makota decided to devote herself to the dramatic arts, and joined the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental de Poitiers, before enrolling in the "Performing Arts" course at the University of Poitiers. Her discovery of contact dance at the University of Poitiers' choreographic research workshop, directed by Isabelle Lamothe, marked a turning point in her approach to the body, which for her became a tool for thinking and reading the world. She participated in the creation of Gaëlle Bourges' piece Front contre front for the "À Corps" festival in Poitiers in 2016. This work opened up personal, artistic and political questions about the body and its modes of representation. She then began to take a keen interest in theatrical anthropology, and spent two years at the Ecole du Jeu (Paris). She was involved in Juliet Butot's performance piece Le Deuil Des Coquelicots. This project became an exploration of the construction of an embodied, inhabited and animal physicality as a source of intimate expression and metamorphosis. More recently, she has been working with the spoken and sung voice, thanks to her encounter with Jean-Yves Pénafiel, as well as with music. Noémie is also completing a degree in cinema at the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
