Paysage Inconnu

Created far from any literary or artistic allusion, Paysage inconnu is based on extended improvisation pushed to the point of exhaustion. The concept of landscape is understood metaphorically, an inner landscape, a mental landscape, infinitely changing li

Piece by Josef Nadj, Ivan Fatjo, Akosh Szelevényi et Gildas Etevenard

Created far from any literary or artistic allusion, Paysage inconnu is based on extended improvisation pushed to the point of exhaustion. The concept of landscape is understood metaphorically, an inner landscape, a mental landscape, infinitely changing like life itself, to be constantly rediscovered. Nevertheless the exploration of this territory is a collective adventure aimed at finding – beyond words – an “other shared language”. An adventure shaped by two essential motifs. First the motif of the double, defined as much by resemblance as by complementarity, which immediately imposes itself in the coexistence and stage presence of the two dancers and the two musicians, in the relationship between gesture and sound, between music and dance. But also in the interplay of contrast between speed and slowness, amplitude and restraint, suspension and activity, unmalleability and momentum, presence and absence, obscurity and whiteness, tragic and burlesque, joy and melancholia… Closely linked to this image of the double is the second motif of Paysage inconnu, the principle of transformation, mutation, alternation or even of passage, a threshold to cross. Present in the unceasing metamorphosis, as subtle as it may be, of a landscape unknowable for this very reason, this principle inhabits the piece in relationship to the cycle of life – in precisely the passage from limbo to life, then from life to death, to nothingness, and again to life. And so, Paysage inconnu is a sort of danse macabre, a vanitas whose introspective or meditative dimension is constantly “menaced” by humour, derision, the grotesque, and irony.

Myriam Bloedé

Credits

Direction Josef NadjInterpretation Josef Nadj, Ivan FatjoMusic composition and interpretation Akosh Szelevényi, Gildas EtevenardLights Christian Scheltens assisted by Lionel Colet and Matthieu LandréSound Jean-Philippe DupontSet construction Julien Fleureau and Clément Dirat

Running time 55 minutesProduction Centre chorégraphique national d’OrléansCoproduction Secretaría de Cultura del gobierno del Estado de Jalisco dans le cadre du Festival internacional de danza contemporánea Onésimo González, Guadalajara, Mexique – L’Odyssée, Festival Mimos, Institut national des arts du mime et du geste de Périgueux.

Support of creation DRAC Centre and Ville d’Orléans.