(music)The Grand Master and His companion the Grand Dame is coming…
Don Q
- dance play in one act -
The dramatic dance show has been made for and performed by Botafogo Dance ensemble is based on Hispanic-Latin dance motifs and partly on such kind of music. Consequently the story of the play is certainly of Spanish according to the style of the dance company.
Cervantes's magnificent novel
made possible the new dance show of the ensemble on stage, through which the audience
can answer one of the biggest questions of our life whether it is worth fighting
for a better world or just let us be damned by sins.
Movement 1: FIESTA, Scene: in a Spanish
arena
Movement 2: WALLS, Scene: a brothel
Movement 3: EXTASY,
Scene: a disco
EPILOGUE
Choreographer-director:
Tibor Dalotti
Assistants to the choreographer:
Tibor
Dudás, Mária Krizsa
and Sylvia Cservenák
Sujet: Gábor Mészöly
Costume designer: Nóra Rományi
Dancers:
Don
Q - Bálint Gebei
Girl - Mária Krizsa
Grand; Boss; Master - Tibor
Dudás
Grand Dame; Madam - Sylvia
Cservenák
Toreador; Guest 1 - Zoltán
Horváth
Picador 1; Chap; Character -
László Szabó
dr.
Picador 2; Chap; Character - Ákos
Somfai, or Tibor Cseh Szakáll
Guest 2 - András
Faluvégi dr., or András Szőllősi
As well as the Show Dance European Champion Botafogo Dance Ensemble.
THE STORY OF THE DANCE PLAY
If you haven't seen the play yet, imagine the stage in front of you and listen to the tracks (click on music) and take a look at Béla Kanyó photographer's pictures shot at the first night.
You had better
not miss the show live! Till that time order
it on DVD!
Movement 1: F I E S T A
The whirl of celebrating flamboyant dancers stops short…
(music)
The Grand Master and His companion the Grand Dame is coming…
The Grand Master (a kind of godfather) is making a sign. Let the strange fight start. 2 picadors is appearing and a toreador clad in black is marching in in the midst of cheering.
The sacrifice is also coming up in the shape of a woman in flame colored dress.
The unusual and inhuman battle is on. The sacrifice is becoming tired is collapsing
when the Q dressed in white is popping up out of blue.
The White clad stranger
is shielding the broken-hearted sacrifice. He is warding off the attacks by his
own body but surprisingly the trembling, wounded sacrifice pushes aside his protector
by his last power. As a suicide he steps right in front of the Toreador to make
happen 'the moment of truth'.
The Sacrifice collapses as usual in life...
(music)
The Grand beckons his subjects to defeat next the white-clad.
No mercy.
Q collapses next to the dying Sacrifice. Arena becomes empty. Silence.
Movement 2: W A L L S
Brothel. Dance of women of lust, erotic, seducing moves...
(music)
Grand Dame shows up and chases away the Girl…Time to work!
First Guest pops in, Grand Dame receives him amiably, Girl is offered to him,
let the alone. Man embraces her at once, their dance is the very sexual intercourse.
After this the Girl steps aside crouches down and snaps with her fingers. On this,
the 2 Chaps drop in unexpectedly to attack rob and drive out the first Guest...
(music)
Grand Dame forthwith seduces an another Guest. While the first
Guest is awkward, the second Guest is the very brutality. After the rude act the
Girl crouches down back burning out. She doesn't give a sign, doesn't snap by
her fingers either.
Second Guest leaves contentedly before the Chaps would
step in he is not to be found. The Chaps would attack the Girl but at this moment
an another guest comes in, the white-clad Q.
The Chaps would attack
the Girl but at this moment an another guest comes in, the white-clad Q.
Chaps
disappear, leave the couple alone. Q stands motionless he is recalling what happened
in the previous Movement seeing the sacrifice, the cowering girl. He is seeing
the Girl while she starts to move as if by magic and can feel something different
is going to happen. They start a heart-to-heart dance...
(music)
Our hero would
escape the Girl. Wherever they would go more and more black-clad chaps step forward
drawing a Wall against the runaways.
Q and the Girl bump against the wall
all over...
Movement 3: E X T A S Y
In a disco..
(music)
Flickering lights, tiring dancers. A black clad guy comes now
up looks around watching the dancers. Being on his trail an another black chaps
turns up exchanging their glances by nod of great importance. After this the Master
(the previous Boss) appears on the scene stepping up to a dancer by bewitching
moves of the Devil and starts dancing with now a girl now a boy from the crowd.
The Master pushes them to the Chaps by mesmerizing them next to give them the
d r u g s.
The formerly pleasure dancers are stoned out and
'flying'. Only the Girl is the exception who dares to object to the temptation.
The Chaps are just holding her down when our hero the white Q drops in unexpectedly.
Q pitches into the Chaps who are forced to let her go who is getting away.
The Chaps are pouncing on our hero.
Fight, madness, insane, dancers and then
the frenzy dies down. The Q are crucified…everything goes quiet...
(music)
... the Girl escaped steps in, stands still looking at her tormented
saviour. The Girl is anxious, helping, protecting him thereupon the Q falls down
from the cross. Embracing of them. Pieta.
E
P I L O G U E
Fiesta
restarts
(music)
More and more men in white appear in the throng between the dancers.
The bustle spreads over...
After the first performance:
The dance play made by the support of the National Dance Theatre of Hungary and the National Cultural Funds.
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