Miquel Barceló and
Josef Nadj Spain/France
Paso Doble UK Premiere
Barbican Theatre >
Wed 16 to Sat 19 Jan
Wed 8.30pm, Thu-Sat 8pm
After-show discussion: Fri 18 Jan
Runs approx 50 mins with no interval
Age guidance 8+
Seats £7 - £26
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'A major work'. Le Monde
'Paso Doble is a living sculpture... mesmerising'. New York Times
Emerging from a giant wall of wet red clay onto a stage made of ten tons of the same, two black-suited protagonists chop, slap, shape and reshape the heavy material. They use outsize tools and the impact of their own bodies to form amazing shapes and structures. This extraordinary collaboration between a dancer-choreographer and visual artist explores the act of artistic creation itself, offering a revealing glimpse into the obsessions, anxieties and excitement experienced by artists in the process of making unconventional new work . Underscored by Alain Mahé’s live soundscape the two bodies gradually disappear as if absorbed into their canvas, themselves a part of the endless work-in-progress.
Paso Doble is the meeting of two highly accomplished artists. Josef Nadj is an internationally celebrated French performer-choreographer and artistic director of the Centre Chorégraphique National d'Orleans. His previous UK appearance include two productions for the Festival, Woyzeck (LIMF 99) and Comedia Tempio (LIMF02). He was Associate Artist of the 2006 Avignon Festival.
Catalan sculptor and painter Miquel Barceló is one of Spain’s foremost contemporary artists. His work has been exhibited at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and he has recently been awarded prestigious commissions to decorate the cathedral in Palma, Majorca, and the United Nations building in Geneva.
Paso Doble premiered at the Avignon Festival and has since been presented in Paris and New York.
view it on youtube >
www.josefnadj.com >www.miquelbarcelo.org >
Presented in association with Barbicanbite08
Commissioned by the 2006 Avignon Festival
Coproduction: Centre Chorégraphique National d'Orleans
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