Choregraphy

Josef Nadj

 

Interpreters

Timothé Ballo, Abdel Kader Diop, Aipeur Foundou, Bi Jean Ronsard Irié, Jean-Paul Mehansio, Sombewendin Marius Sawadogo, Boukson Séré et Josef Nadj

 

Artistic collaboration

Ivan Fatjo

 

Technical director and lights

Sylvain Blocquaux

 

Costums

Paula Dartigues

 

Musics

Fritz Hauser, Famoudou Don Moye & Tatsu Aoki, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Malachi Favors Maghostut & Tatsu Aoki, Peter Vogel, Christian Wolfarth, Lucas Niggli 

 

Production, Diffusion

Bureau Platô Séverine Péan et Mathilde Blatgé

 

Administration 

Laura Petit

 

Executive production

Atelier 3+1

 

Coproductions

Montpellier Danse, Le Trident, Scène nationale de Cherbourg, MC 93 Maison de la culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, Bobigny, Charleroi Danse, Le Tropique Atrium, Fort-de-France, Théâtre des Salins, Scène nationale de Martigues, Le Théâtre d’Arles

 

Supports

Ministère de la Culture -DRAC Ile de France, Action financée par la Région Île-de-France, Teatroskop – un programme initié par l’Institut français, le ministère de la Culture et le ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères

 

Residences

With the support of Montpellier Danse 2024, creative residency at l’Agora, cité internationale de la danse, with support from Fondation BNP Paribas, CND – Centre National de la Danse à Pantin, Paris, Charleroi Danse, La Cocoteraie des arts, Mondoukou, Artus Studio, Budapest, Le Trident, Scène nationale de Cherbourg, MC 93 Maison de la culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, Bobigny (put in order, starting with the last)

With the support of  la Maison des Métallos.

Full Moon follows Josef Nadj’s previous creation, Omma (2020), which was the fruit of research into the origins of dance, the origins of movement, carried out with eight dancers from Africa. Seven of them wanted to continue the adventure, and the choreographer once again encouraged them to delve deep within themselves, into their buried memories, to confront the rhythms and energies that constitute them – the rhythms and energies of the earth, of nature, as well as those of their respective cultures and traditions, thus affirming, within the group, the expression of their personal identity, the particularities of each.

 

In addition to this research into sources, Nadj also wished to explore another “track” for this creation: the world of black American jazz, from its original forms to the present day – a genre that has been appropriated by whites, and whose dance component has almost completely disappeared. He focused on the period from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, a period that particularly appeals to him. Contemporary with the African-American emancipation movement, this period saw a kind of intellectual and musical revolution take place in Chicago and New York, giving rise to free jazz and improvised music. Together with the dancers, Josef Nadj set about analyzing the forms specific to this music, extracting its spirit and thought, and searching for a dance that corresponded to it. Born of this “fascinating work”, Full Moon pays implicit tribute to some of the most eminent representatives of this movement: Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

 

Yet another figure is called upon in Full Moon, that of the puppet, which, like the mask, runs through all Josef Nadj’s work. Like the mask, the puppet runs through all of Josef Nadj’s work. The reason this figure, like the mask, recurs here is that both are very present in African cultures, but not only. Envisaged as the point of junction, the tipping point between the inert and the living, the animate and the inanimate, it carries another meaning than the “living” body, to which it provides a kind of counterpoint. But for Nadj, this figure also conveys the principle of life imprisoned in form. In this sense, the presence of the puppet, of the “puppet man” alongside the living, represents for him the fact that a creation is never perfect, and that it imposes the need to accept the game, even in its imperfection.

 

Myriam Blœdé

23.05.2024 2024

FESZT FESTIVAL

TIMISOARA, ROUMANIE

 

17.06.2024

FLOW FESTIVAL

SFANTU GHEORGHE, ROUMANIE

 

24,25 & 26.06.2024

MONTPELLIER DANSE

FRANCE

 

12.07.2024

FESTIVAL DE ALMADA

PORTUGAL

 

18,19.07.2024

KALAMATA DANCE FESITVAL

GRÈCE

 

23.07.2024

MITTELFEST

CIVIDALE DEL FRUILI, ITALIE

 

27.09.2024

THÉÂTRE D’ARLES

FRANCE

 

03 & 04.10.2024

LE TRIDENT

SCÈNE NATIONALE DE CHERBOURG EN CORENTIN, FRANCE

 

12.10.2024

MESS FESTIVAL

SARAJEVO, BOSNIE

 

17,18,19.10.2024
MC93

BOBIGNY, FRANCE

 

05.11.2024

THÉÂTRE DES SALINS

SCÈNE NATIONALE DE MARTIGUES, FRANCE

 

14.11.2024

LE NOUVEAU RELAX

CHAUMONT, FRANCE

 

19.11.2024

DESIRE CENTRAL FESTIVAL

SUBOTICA, SERBIE

 

01 & 02.03.2025

SCENARIO PUBBLICO

CATANIA, SICILE

 

03 & 04.04.2025
LES THÉÂTRES DE LA VILLE DE LUXEMBOURG

 

30.04.2025

THÉATRE ROMAIN ROLLAND

VILLEJUIF, FRANCE

 

16.05.2025

CHARLEROI DANSE

BELGIQUE

 

08.06.2025
NICOSIA MUNICIPAL THEATRE
NICOSIA, CYPRUS

 

11.06.2025
RIALTO THEATRE
LIMASSOL, CYPRUS

 

28.09.2025
GDANSK DANCE FESTIVAL
GDANSK, POLAND

 

31.10.2025
CENTRE CULTURE FRANCO GUINEEN
CONAKRY (GU)

 

07.11.2025
INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE COTE D’IVOIRE
ABIDJAN (CI)

 

09.11.2025
COCOTERAIE DES ARTS
MONDOUKOU (CI)

 

14.11.2025
INSTITUT FRANCAIS DU BÉNIN
COTONOU (BE)

 

19.11.2025
INSITUT FRANCAIS DU TOGO
LOMÉ(TO)

 

22.11.2025
INSTITUT FRANCAIS DU SÉNÉGAL
DAKAR (SE)

 

04.11.2025
DE WARANDE
THURNOUT (BE)

 

23.01.2026
L’OCTOGONE, THÉATRE DE PULLY
PULLY (SU)

 

27.01.2026
LE GRAND ANGLE
VOIRON (FR)

 

28.04.2026
L’ESPACE DES ARTS
CHALON SUR SAONE (FR)

 

16.05.2025
TEATRO DI NAPOLI, TEATRO MERCADANTE
NAPOLI (IT)

 

17.05.2025
TEATRO DI NAPOLI, TEATRO MERCADANTE
NAPOLI (IT)