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Show: "Train of Dreams"
Comediants-Jordi Sabates
Scenario: Park auditorium Almansa
Date: Friday, August 22, 2008
Time: 22.30 h.
Admission: 15 euros euro zone area A/B-12 C / D
Jordi Sabates and Comediants propose a poetic tribute to the cinema in "Train of Dreams," which ends with this year's Festival
The Catalan musician Jordi Sabates, has devised a show that has original music, which will play live at the piano, and together with Jordi Font, founder and director of Comediants, have formed a multidisciplinary installation that mixes film, magic , music, theater, dance and percussion, around the beginning of the film.
"Train of Dreams", offers the viewer a chronological journey with a stop at the stations where living people linked to the world of cinema, with some of the pioneering filmmakers like George Mieli, Chomón Second, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, and Buster Keaton, who has met Sabatés same train.
The music is of particular importance in this show in which he explains Jordi Font, Sabates has created a new way of using music in silent films and not merely accompany the scene but interacts with the characters, situations and actions that develop during the show.
The train of dreams, is the cinema, and with his birth in 1895, started the show with the symbolic arrival of the train to the Lumière brothers.
The viewer is thereafter immersed in a world of poetic and visual, which includes images of high interest by flying fragments of films like "The executor terrible Turk", 1904, and "Journey through the impossible ", the same year, which was the first colored film in the history of cinema.
Basting for music, skits, dance and even magic happen blocks separated by directors with new projections of films like "Simphonie Bizarre" (1909), of Second Chomón, or after "Nosferatu" (1922) of Friedrich Wilhelm, who is the birth in the film of a literary myth, Dracula, and starts a new film language.
Buster Keaton finally come to the film Sherlock Junior, 1924, in which Keaton made real action film, joined on stage by tap dancing.
The journey through the origins of film concludes with a reference to the subtitle of the show "The old poem of the sewing machine," Federico García Lorca's poem referring to the work of poet and playwright Granada, "Buster Keaton's Walk" , which uses the metaphor of the sewing machine to refer to the film projector.
"Train of Dreams", a show to enjoy with family, played by actors Enric Torné, Dídac Castignani and Teresa Garcia, directed by Joan Font, director-founder of Comediants, and is the brainchild of pianist Jordi Sabates, who also original music, and interpreter of the same live.
Jordi Sabates back onto the auditorium stage Almansa park where he played last July during the Festival International de Jazz de San Javier and where he proved to be one of the greats of the recent history of music in Spain.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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