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Mnémosyne

Biennale de la danse 2018 - Director : Plasson, Fabien

Choreographer(s) : Nadj, Josef (Hungary)

Present in collection(s): Biennale de la danse , Biennale de la danse - 2018

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Mnémosyne

Biennale de la danse 2018 - Director : Plasson, Fabien

Choreographer(s) : Nadj, Josef (Hungary)

Present in collection(s): Biennale de la danse , Biennale de la danse - 2018

en fr

Mnémosyne

The B&W and then colour output of Nadj, a genius of all trades, informed his creative process before becoming art in its  own right. Centre stage, with his most recent pictures on display, the  choreographer gives a singular performance in a visual installation that  calls to mind both the 19th-century camera obscura and black-box theatres. Mnémosyne is thus the medium for an engrossing experiment that mixes the arts of imagery and the stage.


Source: Biennale de la danse 2018

Nadj, Josef

Josef Nadj was born in 1957 in Kanjiza, a province of Vojvodina in the former Yugoslavia, in what is today Serbia. Beginning in childhood, he drew, practiced wrestling, accordeon, soccer and chess, intending a career in painting. Between the ages of 15 and 18, he studied at the fine arts high school of Novi Sad (the capital of Vojvodina), followed by 15 months of military service in Bosnia-Herzegovina.


Afterwards, he left to study art history and music at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the University of Budapest, where he also began studying physical expression and acting.


In 1980, he left for Paris to continue his training with Marcel Marceau, Etienne Ducroux. Simultaneously he discovered modern dance, at the time in a period of swift expansion in France. He followed the teachings of Larri Leong (who combined dance, kimomichi and aidido) and Yves Cassati, also taking classes in tai-chi, butoh and contact improvisation (with Mark Tompkins), began himself to teach the movement arts in 1983 (in France and Hungary), and participated as a performer in works by Sidonie Rochon (Papier froissé, 1984), Mark Tompkins (Trahison Men, 1985), Catherine Diverrès (l’Arbitre des élégances, 1988) and François Verret (Illusion comique and La, commissioned by the GRCOP, 1986).


In 1986 he founded his company, Théâtre JEL – “jel” meaning “sign” in Hungarian – and created his first work, Canard Pékinois, presented in 1987 at the Théâtre de la Bastille and remounted the following year at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.

Up to now, he is the author of about thirty performances.


In 1982, Josef Nadj completely abandoned drawing and painting to dedicate himself fully to dance, and would not begin showing his work again until fifteen years later. But in 1989 he began practicing photography, pursuing it without interruption to the present. Since 1996, his visual arts and graphic works, most often conceived in cycles or series – sculpture-installations, drawings, photos – have been regularly exhibited in galleries and theatres.


In 2006, Josef Nadj was Associated Artist for the 60th Festival of Avignon, presenting Asobu as the festival's opening performance in the Court of Honour of the Palais des Papes, as well as Paso doble, a performance created in collaboration with the painter Miquel Barcelo at the Celestins Church. In July 2010, he returned to present Les Corbeaux, a duet with Akosh zelevényi.

To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Anton Chekhov, Valery Shadrin, director of the Chekhov International Theatre Festival and Artistic Director of the Year 2010 France-Russia, invited Josef Nadj for the creation of a show dedicated to the playwright, which was performed in Moscow and St. Petersburg.


Josef Nadj was present at the Prague Quadrennial of 16 to 26 June 2011. TheQuadrennial held in Prague since 1967, is the most famous event in the world for performing arts. More than sixty countries attended this year. Josef Nadj was selected to participate in the project "Intersection" based on intimacy and performance. An ephemeral village was created, which consisted of boxes (“white cubes / black boxes") that stood for thirty world-renowned artists, each one represented by a different box. Since 1995, Josef Nadj has been the director of the Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans.


Source : Josef Nadj


En savoir plus : http://josefnadj.com/

Plasson, Fabien

Born in 1977, Fabien Plasson is a video director specialized in the field of performing arts (dance , music, etc).

During his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (joined in 1995) Fabien discovered video art. He was trained by various video artists (Joel Bartoloméo Pascal Nottoli , Eric Duyckaerts , etc) .
He first experimented with the creation of installations and cinematic objects.

From 2001 to 2011, he was in charge of Ginger & Fred video Bar’s programming at La Maison de la Danse in Lyon. He discovered the choreographic field and the importance of this medium in the dissemination, mediation and pedagogical approach to dance alongside Charles Picq, who was a brilliant video director and the director of the video department at that time.

Today, Fabien Plasson is the video director at La Maison de la Danse and in charge of the video section of Numeridanse.tv, an online international  video library, and continues his creative activities, making videos of concerts, performances and also creating video sets for live performances.


Sources: Maison de la Danse ; Fabien Plasson website

More information: fabione.fr

Mnémosyne

Artistic direction / Conception : Josef Nadj

Interpretation : Josef Nadj

Set design : Rémi Nicolas

Video conception : Josef Nadj

Lights : Rémi Nicolas

Settings : Sylvain Blocquaux (construction décor et régie générale)

Other collaborations : Jean-Pierre Haie - Atelier Demi-Teinte (Encadrement), Dudas Szabolcs (photographies)

Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Production déléguée | Atelier 3+1 // Coproduction | Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2018, Centre Chorégraphique National - Orléans, La Filature Scène Nationale- Mulhouse, Le CENTQUATRE-Paris // Avec le soutien de | Ministère de la Culture - Direction générale de la création artistique – Délégation à la Danse, Région Ile-de-France, La Villette-Paris, Résidence Sainte-Cécile-Orléans - Josef Nadj a été artiste en résidence au CENTQUATRE-Paris et lauréat du programme de résidences internationales de la Ville de Paris aux Récollets

Production / Coproduction of the video work : Biennale de la danse 2018 - Fabien Plasson

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