Choregraphy & scenography
Josef Nadj
Performers
Josef Nadj et Cécile Loyer
Musical composition
Joëlle Léandre (doublebass)
Akosh Szelevényi (saxophonist and poly-instrumentist)
Lights
Rémi Nicolas
Masks
Jacqueline Bosson
Costumes
Aleksandra Pesic, Françoise Yapo
Set
Julien Fleureau
Production
Régional Creative Atelier Jozef Nadj, Kanjiza
Coproduction
Jugokoncert-Beograd, Pecs 2010 ECC, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans, Théâtre de la Bastille – Paris
Supports
Conseil Régional d’île-de-France
Creation
Kanjiza (Serbie), 11st september 2008
Duration
55 min
A ‘quartet’ for two dancer-choreographers and two musician-improvisers, Sho-bo-gen-zo opens with the apparition of a Samurai in armour and an onnagata curiously interpreted by a woman1 – in other words, an almost excessive image of a bygone Japan… which in fact has little relationship with any Japanese reality. Here it is a question of a dreamed Japan, an elsewhere, a faraway land whose extreme strangeness will be precisely the means to return to our present, here and now. In itself, the piece’s title – which in Japanese means ‘The True Law, Treasure of the Eye’ – already orients us in the direction of this ‘elsewhere’, by assuming the name of Master Dogan’s major work, Shobogenzo, which founded the Soto school of Zen in thirteenth century Japan. Struck by the contemporary relevance and depth of Dogan’s teachings, Josef Nadj has focused his attention on Dogan’s life and works, in particular on his quite singular conception of Time and of presence. This exploration of time, the subject of several texts in Shobogenzo, crosses the entire work and expresses itself in metaphors of profound poetic power.
With Cécile Loyer, Joëlle Léandre and Akosh Szelevényi, Nadj has found his inspiration there, creating ‘his own’ Sho-bo-gen-zo – a meditative work, structured into tableaux that are as many variations on the question of Time.
Myriam Bloedé, translated into English by David Vaughn
History :
30 novembre 2013
Festival Neuf 9 Salle Allegora
Auterive (FR)
12 novembre 2013
Biennale de danse en Lorraine, Théâtre Gerard Philippe Scène conventionné
Frouard (FR)
8 novembre 2013
Biennale de danse en Lorraine, La Merideienne Scène conventionnée
Lunéville (FR)
5 novembre 2013
Biennale de danse en Lorraine, Le Carreau Scène nationale de Forbach
Forbach (FR)
19-21 juin 2013
Festival international de théâtre A. Tchekhov
Moscou (RU)
9 décembre 2011
Théâtre de Cahors
Cahors (FR)
9-10 novembre 2011
Festival EuroScene
Leipzig (DE)
14 avril 2011
Théâtre Sept Collines
Tulles (FR)
17 mars 2011
Théâtre de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (FR)
1-4 janvier 2011
Pôle Sud
Strasbourg (FR)
16-18 mars 2010
Pôle Sud, Scène Nationale d’Orléans
Orléans (FR)
18-28 janvier 2010
Théâtre de la Bastille
Paris (FR)
11 septembre 2008
Regional Creative Atelier
Kanjiza (SE)
