Don Quixote - Teatro dei Venti
19 Italian performers transform Algade in Vordingborg into a living theatre - a grand opening performance for all, kicking off the festival with energy and spectacle!
Don Quixote is a sensuous, poetic and dreamlike journey through Miguel de Cervantes' timeless masterpiece in the urban space. With a narrator guiding us through the knight's utopian adventures, we follow Don Quixote and his faithful Sancho Panza as they transform metaphors for life's challenges into magical moments with stilts, live music and theatrical machines.
Don Quixote is a performance for urban spaces, freely based on Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Spanish masterpiece. The narrator of the story leads the audience through the utopian journey with Don Quixote and his faithful, but initially sceptical, companion Sancho. Along the way, the dramatic events become living metaphors for the challenges the two heroes face - showing how relevant the universe of the work still is today.
Paolo Nani, curator at WAVES, saysDon Quixote by Teatro dei Venti is a show that can open Waves in a big way!
We all know the character Don Quixote, but Teatro Dei Venti presents this story in a way that stays in the memory for days. A performance that turns the city centre upside down. Imaginative, powerful and moving.
Credits
Idea, dramaturgy and direction: Stefano Té
Text: Azzurra D'Agostino
Translation: Johanna Bishop
Starring: Alessandro Berardi, Oxana Casolari, Francesca Figini, Davide Filippi, Esther Grigoli, Alice Mascolo, Antonio Santangelo, Christian Sidoti, Cesare Trebeschi, Francesco Valli
Music: Igino L. Caselgrandi, Pietro Colliva, Diego Lancellotti, Nicola Raccanelli
Machines: Dino Serra Paolo Romanini, Emanuela Savi and Chiara Pettenati
Costumes and set design: Maria Scarano - Atelier Polvere di Stelle
Artistic consultant: Mario Barzaghi
Assistant Instructor: Elena Carbonella
Sound design: Luigi Pascale, Tonino La Distruzione, Nicola Raccanelli
Costume sketches: F.M., inmate at the Casa di Reclusione di Castelfranco Emilia prison, as part of the European project All Hands on Stage.
Production and support
Don Quixote is produced by Teatro dei Venti in co-production with Solares Fondazione delle Arti / Teatro delle Briciole with support from Ministero della Cultura, Regione Emilia-Romagna and Caracò and is supported at WAVES by the Italian Cultural Institute.
About Teatro dei Venti
Teatro dei Venti is an innovative theatre company that since 2005 has been creating performances and projects that combine creativity and community with a strong social commitment. They are known for bringing theatre to new spaces: from city streets to prisons and local communities, where audiences can experience performing arts up close. The company has toured both Italy and the rest of the world - including Denmark - and has been recognised for its ability to create spectacular and gripping performances that bring people together across backgrounds.
Among the group's most notable works are Moby Dick, which won several prestigious awards, and the subsequent Odissea, which was developed as a travelling show in both prisons and urban spaces. Teatro dei Venti works closely with public institutions, cultural organisations and European partners and has extensive experience in projects supported by Creative Europe. They also engage in international initiatives in countries such as Mozambique and Senegal. Through festivals, residencies and community projects, Teatro dei Venti contributes to creating unique, inclusive cultural experiences - always with the ambition to connect people and places through the transformative power of art.
See more about the company here https://www.teatrodeiventi.it/