Don Qui
Is based on vocal and corporeal experimentations. Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, the show portrays the process of inspiration and imagination of Cervantes as a fictitious character in the process of creation. The conception of the characters Don Quixote, Dulcinea, Sancho Panza, and others is based on the ontology of each actor. The result is a confluence of multiple cultures: French, Brazilian, Korean-American, Japanese, and Catalan.
The text used in the show is a Japanese children’s song that has been transformed into invented dialogues, in which the significance of the original text loses its original meaning and is recontextualized through vocal and physical actions to communicate the actor’s dramatic intentions.
Only the character of Cervantes, who intermittently appears, speaks in French and delivers to the spectators the playful poetry based in the original text.
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“In one word the show is illuminating”
-Eric de Sarria, Cie. Philippe Genty
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“Beautiful costumes…minimalist set decor gives an impression of perfection”
-Morgan Faligot, Le Souffleur
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“This is an enormous work that Leela and her team has achieved…”
-Bruno de Vismes.
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“The terrain without a road and thus, all is a road…this land without direction leads everywhere without leading exactly to nowhere…”
-Benito Pérez Galdós
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Info
Duration : 01h00
General Audience
Author and Director: Leela ALANIZ
Actors: Yuka FUKUSHIMA, Cyril DESCOURS, Sergi EMILIANO, Won KIM
Actors who also played in versions of Don Qui: Caroline LETAC, Ayuko YONEMURA, Sajeev PURUSHOTHAMA
Music: François BLAIGNAN
Lighting: Paul DIVEL
Costumes: Lara PERBELLINI
Set Design: Elia DAVID
Photo Credits: Martin ACB, Ndembo Ziavoula, Agnès Delachair, Iñigo Lopez
Production Partners
University Paris 8
University Paris 3
University Paris 7
CROUS Creteil
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Jury Selection 2006 for a 10 festival tour in Argentina
-Instituto Nacional del Teatro, Argentina
Finalist Paris Prix Jeunes Talents 2006
-City of Paris
Winner BEST SHOW 2006
-Festival ACTHEA, Albi, France
BEST ACTOR 2006, Sergi Emiliano
Festival ACTHEA, Albi, France
Winner Jury Prize 2006, Performing Arts Category
-Festival Ici et Demain, City of Paris
Tour
Théatre du Lierre
Paris, France, January 28 to February 1, 2009
FESTIVAL Mostra d’Arts Gestuals i del Moviment d’Esparreguera
Esparreguera, Espagne, 04 octobre, 2008
FESTIVAL AVIGNON OFF, théâtre Gilgamesh
Avignon, France, July 10 to August 1, 2008
FESTIVAL de Théâtre à Eupen
Eupen, Belgium, February 22 and 23, 2008
FESTIVAL Universo Teatro
Benevento, Italy, November19 to 24, 2007
Les Arènes de Nanterre
Nanterre, November 15 and 16, 2007
FESTIVAL SCÈNE OUVERTE
Université de Nantes
Nantes, France, May 5, 2007
FESTIVAL RITU
Rencontres Internationales de Théâtre Universitaire
Liège, Belgium, February 26 to March 4, 2007
Centre d’Animation les Halles le Marais
Paris, January 16 and 19, 2007
FESTIVAL COS de mim i teatre gestual
Reus, Barcelone, Spain October 27, 2006
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS in Argentina 2006
Tour of 10 theater festivals
Selected by the Instituto Nacional del Teatro, Argentina
Rio Gallegos–October 22, Ushuaia–October 20, Rosario–October14, Corrientes–October 12, Salta–October 10, Tucuman–October 8, Catamarca–October 7, Santiago del Estero–Octobre 6, Córdoba–October 4, Mendoza–October 1
XIX FESTIVAL DEL SUR TRES CONTINENTES
Municipal Theater of Agüimes
Agüimes, Canary Islands, Spain, July 17, 2006
Bienal Internacional de Teatro de ACTOR – BITA
Theater Auditorium of Cuenca, Cuenca, Spain, June16, 2006
FESTUPIC
Municipal Theater of Compiègne, France, June 1, 2006
FESTIVAL SCENES OUVERTES
Paris X University, Nanterre, France, May 16, 2006
FESTIVAL MIME EN MAI
Jardin Luxembourg, Paris, May 6,7,and 8, 2006
Festival ACTHEA
Municipal Theater of Albi, France, April 28, 2006
Festival Ici et Demain
Amphi 24, Paris 7 University, Paris, March 9 and 10, 2006
Amphi X, Université Paris 8
Saint-Denis, France, February 28, 2006
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Press Articles
8 Press Articles from FESTIVAL D’AVIGNON OFF 2008 (French)
Articles from 10 city ARGENTINA TOUR 2007 (Spanish)
Eric de Sarria, Company Philippe Genty (French)
Bruno Devismes (French)
Morgan Faligot, Le Souffleur (French)
Eupener Land (German)
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