20/20 Entertainment in Containment presents “Don Quichotte”
Fri Aug 21, 20:00 - Thu Aug 27, 23:00
Event is online
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20/20 Entertainment in Containment presents “Don Quixote”
20/20 vision in the year 2020
Biblioteek Productions presents twenty Classical inter-disciplinary online projects of twenty minutes each. Nearly sixty freelance artists from all spheres of the creative and arts industry are involved in this exciting project. These mini-productions will be rolled out each week from 10 July. Join us in this online revolution, where we continue to bring boundary shifting classical music to you.
21 August - Christiaan Snyman, Kerry Wisniewsky and Natalie Bentley: “Don Quixote”
The Spanish novel on Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes was published in 1605 and is considered the first modern novel written. Don Quixote inspired countless artist, musicians, poets and filmmakers through the ages, and even a Broadway show used this iconic novel as subject.
In this short programme of music by Maurice Ravel and Jules Massenet, we explore not only the Don, but a whole spectrum of human emotions like hope, love, disappointment, delusions of grandeur, fantasy, disillusionment and acceptance of our humanity in order to grow from it - even in death. It is such a comic yet tender and tragic story, filled with the beauty of the human condition.
As a singer painter, Snyman matches the musical expression of these songs with visuals, capturing the mood and story of the music through painting. “I will echo the emotion in colour, the rhythm in brushstroke, and narrate what the character might be experiencing in the medium of painting, both abstract and figurative. I am filming myself painting while listening to the music to allow myself to absorb what it gives me and then translate that into the language of the visual.”
28 August - Elmarie van der Vyver, Mathilda Hornsveld, Inge Venter, Ongi Gongxeka & Frankie van Straaten: “Strings and Songs”
4 September - Emma Farquharson, Caleb Vaughn-Jones, Lara Kirsten, Ilse Myburgh & Oswald Mbuyiseli Mtshali: “Hear Her Now”
11 September - Franco Prinsloo, Sonya Rademeyer, Willem van den Heever & André van Rensburg: “Traces”
18 September - Busisiwe Ngejane & Makudupanyane Senaoana: “La Bohéme”
25 September - Monthati Masebe & Tali Lehr- Sacks: “Sun trans-fusion”
2 October - Catherine Stephenson “Journeys”
9 October - Cara Stacey, Joyce Moholoagae & Nicola du Toit, Galina Juritz: “Arum Project”
16 October - Franco Prinsloo, Magdalene Minnaar, Louis Minnaar & Jaco van der Merwe “Alphabet”
23 October - Magdalena de Vries & Thabo Rapoo: “Dances for Marimba”
30 October - Maryke Johnson & Rivandu Swanepoel: “Tours de Temps / Moving Debussy”
6 November - Luca Hart: “Airborne”
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