with the artistic participation of Patrice Thibaud
costumes José Montalvo, Siegied Petit-Imbert
music Léon Minkus
composition and arrangment Sayem
lights Gilles Dudand, Vincent Paoli
created and starring Natacha Balet, Lucie Dubois, Nathalie Fauquette, Sandra Geco Mercky, Jennifer Suire alias Pookie, Sharon Sultan, Abdelkader Benabdallah alias Abdallah, Warenne Adien alias Desty Wa, Simhamed Benhalima alias Seam Dancer, Edwidge Larralde, Lazaro Cuervo Costa, Blaise Kouakou, Roberto Pani alias Bobo
production Théâtre National de Chaillot
in co-production with Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Scène Nationale de l’Oise en Préfiguration Espace Jean Legendre Théâtre de Compiègne, Théâtre de Nîmes, Théâtre Liberté – Toulon, Théâtre de Caen, Théâtre de la Place – Liège, Les Gémeaux – Sceaux, Le Centre des Écritures Contemporaines et Numériques, Le Manège- Mons
in partnership with RAPT
with the support of Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione Franco-Italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea
Italian premiere
Country France
running time: 1h 25m
Venue Teatro di San Carlo
Dates 04/06/2013 ore 20:30
His choreographic writing – nourished by classical ballet, contemporary and African dance, hip hop, flamenco, circus and theater – focuses on the relationship between real and virtual, visual and imagined. The interaction between real dancers and video projections (characterized by a strong taste for the baroque and the mixing of genres and cultures) in some performances are so symbiotic that it is difficult for the viewer to understand what is real and what is not. This is José Montalvo, a French artist of international renown, who will present at the Festival Don Quichotte du Trocadéro. Taking a cue from the novel by Cervantes and the ballet by Marius Petipa, Montalvo offers an entertaining and cheerful performance «which compares the grammar of the gesture of the commedia dell’arte with the corporal practices of contemporary urban dance». On the scene, Don Quixote, the character imagined by Cervantes, will meet the great comedian Patrice Thibaud. «Patrice – says the choreographer – is a poet, an acrobat, a trapeze artist of laughter. We had to find a work sufficiently flexible, open but grounded at the same time that was not simply a pure pretext. Don Quixote has appeared to us as an evidence: it is the first great modern novel that dips its pen in the ink of burlesque».
