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Josef Nadj at the CCN of Orléans
Josef Nadj is a brilliant picture creator, he knows how to tell stories and develop a poetic universe wavering between dream and nightmare, with a taste for humour and absurd situations.
Visual artist, choreographer and director, Josef Nadj is first and foremost a great creator of images. With a whole host of fables from his native village of Vojvodina, at the boundaries of Hungary and Yugoslavia, he turns into a storyteller to develop a poetic world hovering between dream and nightmare, with a preference for humour and absurd situations.
Since Canard pékinois, his first work created in 1987, Josef Nadj depicts strange men, dressed in black suits and hats, and enigmatic, evanescent women who fall prey to burlesque ravings and metamorphoses where bodies and objects become one. Searching for a sign language, the choreographer places the mystery of humankind at the centre of his concerns. He compares his approach to that of a craftsman, devoted to the simplicity of gestures and daily work. In Les Commentaires d’Habacuc, he compares his universe to the writing of Samuel Beckett. The sobriety of the images and musicality of the gestures of the interpreters who silently slide on wooden fences, pay tribute to the author of Endgame.
Source : Irène FIliberti
