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TEATRO DEL SILENCIO
Emma Darwin or The suicide of the evolution
Creation 2010

18-21 AUGUST 2010: AURILLAC (France) - PREMIERE of Emma Darwin at Festival d'Aurillac

The french-chilean group Teatro del Silencio, directed by Mauricio Celedon, gathers actors, dancers, musicians, acrobats and visual artists. Since 1989, they create a theatre of gesture and emotion mixing mime, dance, music, circus and theatre. This artistical path has allowed Silencio to touch very wide audiences, men, women and children of different cultures, stories and languages, above all borders and frontiers.

Between 2003 and 2009, Teatro del Silencio has been working on an ambitious trilogy inspired by Dante's masterpiece The Divine Comedy. Three shows were created : O divina la Commedia - Inferno, Mother Courage and her children in Purgatory, and Paraiso.
In 2009, Mauricio Celedon participated to the latest creation of Cirque Baroque entitled 4 sous d'Cirk.

After these adventures, Mauricio Celedon decided to dive into the life and correspondence of Charles Darwin and prepare Teatro del Silencio's new performance Emma Darwin or The suicide of evolution.
With a lyrical sense of total theatre, this show will be the portrait of a man who revolutionized our vision of the living world. Through Darwin and his wife's eyes, it will take us in a voyage into the very heart of humanity.

"In less than a century, men, cultures, thousand years old languages have been annihilated by the arrival of seals and whales hunters, gold searchers, missionaries, businessmen...
On the path of Darwin, we will go back the course of time and try to understand this evolution odyssey. A voyage that will lead us to Patagonia, looking for Yaman and Selk'nam peoples who recently disappeared.
We imagined a fix installation with the audience in circle around the stage, a space that will reflect a universe in constant evolution, transformation, mutation, migration. A Tower of Babel, a botanic glass house, a gallery of human zoology, a tree of life, earth of fire, alleys that lead to the sky, observatory of our memories, museum of the end of the world." - Mauricio Celedon

Work in progress... Next steps :
Spring 2010 : residency at Le Fourneau (Brest, France)
June 2010 : residency at Le Parapluie (Aurillac, France)
Late June 2010 : PREMIERE at Festival Les Invités de Villeurbanne (Villeurbanne)
02 > 06 Aug 2010 : performances at Festival FAR (Morlaix, France)

Artistic director and author: Mauricio Celeond
Choreographies : Lhacen Hamed Ben Bella and Mauricio Celeond
Music : Carlos Fierro et Pablo Quezdada
Costumes : Claudia Verdejo
Scenography and props: Marcel Pizarro and Miguel Vera Vauclin
Light designer: Christophe Schaeffer and David Bouttenot
Coproduction : Ateliers Frappaz (Villeurbanne) / Centro cultural Matucana 100 (Santiago du Chili)
With the support of: DRAC Auvergne / Gobierno de Chile DIRAC

PRESS REVIEW

Total theatre mixing mime, dance, street arts, music and circus, with a visually powerful universe and rich symbolism. A physical, furious, deep, raw theatre from which emerge beauty and poetry. La Montagne (France)

WEBSITE www.teatrodelsilencio.net

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