El Conde de Torrefiel
Lexikon
octoberoct 2 – 16
© Ricardo Cases ©
© Ricardo Cases ©
© Ricardo Cases ©
Metro 13 et 14 - Porte de Clichy
Tram T3b : Porte de Clichy, tribunal de Paris
RER C : Porte de Clichy, à 150m du théâtre
Bus : 138, 173, 528, 54, 74, N15 et N51
Vélib' : station 17011 (rue Fragonard)
Friday october 2
20h
Saturday october 3
20h
Sunday october 4
15h
Tuesday october 6
20h
Wednesday october 7
20h
Thursday october 8
20h
Friday october 9
20h
Saturday october 10
20h
Sunday october 11
15h
Tuesday october 13
20h
Wednesday october 14
20h
Thursday october 15
20h
Friday october 16
20h
Concept and creation El Conde de Torrefiel. Staging, text and dramaturgy Tanya Beyeler, Pablo Gisbert. Performers Tanya Beyeler, Carmen Collado, Amalia Fernández, Ion Iraizoz and Mauro Molina. Scenography Isaac Torres, El Conde de Torrefiel. Lights Andrea Forlenza. Costumes, masks, and accessories Mireia Donat Melús. Sound design Rebecca Praga. Sound Uriel Ireland. Video creation María Antón Cabot and Carlos Pardo, Teo Guillem. Video-textual editing David Mallols. Robotics José Brotons Pla. Assistant to the staging Roberto Baldinelli. Assistant to the costumes Javier Muñoz. Translation Marion Cousin. Scenographic realization Isaac Torres, Artefacto Escenografia, Decohogar Ontinyent, Aluminios Planells and Modacolor Estampados. Technical direction Isaac Torres. Production and administration Ursula Vandenberghe.
The Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe and the Festival d'Automne in Paris are co-realisators of this show and present it as a co-realisation.
What defines us as human beings? This question is the point of departure for Lexikon, the latest production by El Conde de Torrefiel, a work centred upon the following idea: the spoken word as a flow of a vital kind, and creator of worlds. Like an underground current, it is in a constant process of motion and transformation.
Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert’s practice is one of a theatre of ideas, but they are also wonderful storytellers. Lexikon: a collection of words which, in their latest show becomes a collection of stories, along the lines of One Thousand and One Nights or The Decameron. Onstage, the different tableaux vivants follow on from each other in order to probe the mystery of human communication. Language becomes a battlefield, in which the imagination and artistic creation wrestle with each other within a system which has never stopped trying to impose a single, tamed language. Turning the stage into a space of a sense-led experience, at the crossroads of theatre, choreography and sound design, El Conde de Torrefiel enable text and image to collide with each other. They invite us to rethink language in the way blood circulates around our bodies, and communication as a transfusion of ideas in which the audience is both witness and participant.
See also
Metro 13 et 14 - Porte de Clichy
Tram T3b : Porte de Clichy, tribunal de Paris
RER C : Porte de Clichy, à 150m du théâtre
Bus : 138, 173, 528, 54, 74, N15 et N51
Vélib' : station 17011 (rue Fragonard)