Noyale is a dance practitioner and researcher in choreography and collaborative performance practices. She is co-editor of the book Collaboration in Performance Practices: Premises, Workings and Failures (2016) published by Palgrave Macmillan. She has also published several journal articles and produced practical works related to her ongoing research around the notion of the collaborative self in performance. Noyale studied at the Conservatoires of Nantes and Lyon, before training in postmodern dance and presenting work at leading performing spaces in New York. She subsequently pursued her career by exploring different movement and somatic practices including yoga, Ohashiatsu, physical theatre and Contact Improvisation. In 2008, Noyale graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London with an MA (Distinction) in Performance Making, before undertaking a PhD at Middlesex University which examines the politics of co-working in contemporary performance making. Together with Dr Stefanie Sachsenmaier, she organised two Symposia On Collaboration held at Middlesex University in 2012 and 2013.
Supervisors: Professor Susan Melrose, Dr Alexandra Kolb, and Rosemary Butcher (MBE)