Penzum / Josef Nadj & Joëlle Leandre (HU/FR)

Beginning of the performance:

Place: Meeting point

Phenomenal French dancer and choreographer of Serbian origin Josef Nadj is coming to the KoresponDance festival, Czech Republic, and he’s bringing a renewed premiere of his Penzum performance. The duet he created with the double bass player Joëlle Léandre is inspired by the personal diary a Hungarian poet Joszef Atiila kept on his sad love to his psychotherapist Flora Kazmutzy. At first everything seems to be plain, uncomplicated – there’s nothing on the stage, but two tables and a large drawing paper wall. Then you are thrown into a tragic love story and exhausting struggle with a serious mental condition he had to face in his life…

• Concept & performance: Joëlle Leandre & Josef Nadj
• Stage design: Julien Fleureau 
• Mask design: Jacqueline Bosson
• Technical manager: Sylvain Blocquaux 
• Executive production, touring: Bureau PLATO, Paris. Celine Chouffot

Production: Atelier 3+1, Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans