ALICE - De Stilte (The Netherlands, Breda)

www.destilte.com

theatre managing director: Jan Baanstra

director&choreographer: Jack Timmermans
set designer: Martijn Hohmann&Bart Mostart
music: Timothy van der Holst
animation: Bert Vogels

cast: Alex Havadi-Nagy, Wiktoria Czakon, Mirella de Almeida Castagna, Kaia Vercammen

premiere date: 22 February 2009

The audience was aroused by a beautiful dance version of Alice, after Lewis Carroll. Choreographer Jack Timmermans, who intentionally
encouraged the young spectators to let their imagination run free, turned the well-known children's book into an idiosyncratic mixture
of dance, shadow theatre and pantomime. Carefree and witty as well as tender and poetic, more than once it brought on a silent fascination
inside the Forum Studio. Like when the company members of De Stilte from the Dutch city of Breda played with the incredible light and
shadow effects, or when as if by magic, images were projected on the wall. Plants, that spring from the landscape to flourish in a fantasy
forest, where colourful butterflies flutter by and a bird descends. Equally effective: a nightly constellation or the rising morning sun.
Especially beautiful was the scene in which images of light bulbs appeared, only to light up by the touch of Alice‘s finger. An astonished,
polyphonic ‘Oh’ broke the silence. It turned into loud laughter again during the exuberant game of hide-and-seek, in which the dancers
playfully used the mobile decor. Three doors of different sizes created multiple entrances, and the revolving door in the middle turned
a few tricks of its own. Exactly how much you can say without words, with the right moves, was already proven in the first scene, when
Alice gets 'rowed into' wonderland. The dancer's moves get his female colleagues started, as if they were oars.
(Monika Klein, Rheinische Post, 23 September 2009)

audience age group: 6+
duration: 60 minutes

Tickets available on-line:
www.ebilet.pl