Atelier 3+1 / Josef Nadj

• 2017
• France

Josef Nadj was born in Vojvodina, Serbia. After graduating from Budapest’s University of Fine Arts, he moved to Paris, where he began taking mime lessons and discovered Tai Chi, Buto, and contemporary dance.

As a choreographer and dancer, but also a visual artist and photographer, his work reflects his poetic, passionate view of humanity. The originality of his creative spirit owes much to his atypical artistic journey, shaped by the vicissitudes of European history.

Josef Nadj is an artist who knows no borders or boundaries. His iconoclastic approach established his reputation as a pioneer of contemporary dance in the 1980s. He has since gone on to become an inspired, demanding choreographer, continuing to develop his art in a spirit of absolute freedom. His work combines multiple references, symbols, and materials, all the better to challenge and beguile our senses. Oscillating between reality and dream states, tradition and modernity, he probes at life’s central question: our relationship with ourselves.

Josef Nadj has produced more than thirty works and performed in over 50 countries. Some of these have become classics of contemporary dance. He was head of the National Choreography Centre in Orléans from 1995 to 2016, before founding his new company. His work continues in the form of Atelier 3+1, pushing in new directions and incorporating more of his photography and visual art. Platô works in partnership with Atelier 3+1 on the production and broader publication of Josef Nadj’s projects.