Full Moon

Atelier 3+1, France | Nonverbal performance

Main stage
1h without intermission

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

choreography
Josef Nadj
 
artistic collaborator
Ivan Fatjo
 
costume design
Dartigues Paula
 
light and technical manager
Blocquaux Sylvain
 
music
Hauser, Famoudou Don Moye & Tatsu Aoki, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Malachi Favors Maghostut & Tatsu Aoki, Peter Vogel, Christian Wolfarth, Lucas Niggli Fritz
 
production and touring
PLATÔ, Séverine Péan, Mathilde Blatgé Bureau

Coproduction: Montpellier Danse | Le Trident – Scène nationale de Cherbourg-en-Cotentin | MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis à Bobigny | Charleroi Danse, Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles | Tropiques Atrium Scène Nationale, Fort-de-France | Théâtre des Salins, Scène Nationale de Martigues | Le Théâtre d’Arles

What movements were there before dance? And what was there before the very idea of dance? In a contemporary, jazz-sounding ritual, a group of seven dancers, accompanied by a solitary puppet figure, embark on a quest that takes us back to the origins of gesture. Josef Nadj reunites the team of dancers from his previous creation Omma, all from West Africa (Congo- Brazzaville, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Ivory Coast). Confronted with Afro-American jazz music from the 1950s to the 1980s, the seven dancers search within themselves for the movements that inhabit them, going back to the sources of dance.

With the support of:
French Ministry of Culture – DRAC Île-de-France | Île-de-France Region | Teatroskop | with the support of la Maison des Métallos, a program initiated by the French Institute, the French Ministry of Culture and the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs