Written from the perspective of a nine year-old girl, “The World is Round” explores the complex interplay of the language of Gertrude Stein with an infantile vocabulary. The aesthetic is a cubistic diction playing with fractured morsels of babbled words and images expressing a turbulent imagination. In search of her own identity, Rose discovers a magical and infernal circle of the world. “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose….”
The labyrinth of images created by Stein compliments the poetics of movement of corporeal mime. The play creates a dialogue between the real and the imaginary, the internal and external worlds, through variations of simple elements. As both the sculptor and the sculpture, the play exposes this paradox of reality.
Info
Genres: Physical Theatre, Mime, Dance
Public: general admission, ages 7+
Duration of show: 40 minutes
Direction and choreography: Leela Alaniz
Production: Won Kim
Partners
Univerisity of Paris 8
University of Paris 3
“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose….”
-Gertrude Stein
Press Reviews
Oestado, Florianopolis, June 25, 2005 (Brazil)
Tour
Théâtre du Lierre “Matières à Conversation”, Paris
(Excerpt of “The Washer Woman” – E. Decroux)
July 2005
Instituto Cultural Arte Clara, Rio de Janeiro
June 2005
Teatro Ulbro, Florianopolis, Brazil
June 2005
Sala Alvaro Moreyra, Porto Alegre, Brazil
May 2005
TEPA, Porto Alegre, Brazil
February 2005
Pomona College, California
January 2005
San Sebastian, Spain
October 2004
Official Selection, Pinokkio Prize, France
Studio Philippe Genty, Paris
June 2004
