Josef Nadj

Josef Nadj is choreographer, dancer, photographer, visual artist.

Understanding dance above all as a site for encounter – this is how Josef Nadj defines his work. Beyond his role as choreographer the man is in fact an artist without borders and without barriers.

Dancer, but also visual artist and photographer, his vision of humanity is poetic and passionate.

Constantly in search of new forms. Ceaselessly willing to explore humanity as close as possible to human truth. Across his career, from Canard pékinois (1987) to Mnémosyne (2018), Josef Nadj has relentlessly pursued exigent and passionate choreography where gravity and compassion take turns, where depth and humour alternate. Whether he is visiting atypical authors (Beckett, Kafka, Michaux) or bringing painting along on stage with him (in performance with Miquel Barceló), Josef Nadj flourishes in complete corporal freedom.

Oscillating between reality and fantasy, tradition and modernity, he explores the essential: man’s relationship with himself. Because for Nadj, dance is fundamentally a humanist act.

Over the years, the works of Josef Nadj have become references in contemporary dance.

Beyond his national influence (Carte Blanche at the Grande Halle de La Villette in Par...

Budapest (University of Fine Art), Paris (École Internationale de Mimodrame, under the direction of Marcel Marceau). Although he turned to contemporary dance after studying fine arts, his career as a choreographer has been accompanied by photography and drawing.

Over the past decades, he has had numerous exhibitions in countries all over the world, including France, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Germany, Hungary and Serbia.