MAIL (Swiss daily) ~ Julien Lambert
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Soliloquies and vibrant youth group productions are the extremes to explore the ocean's festival off d'Avignon. They rehabilitate emotion and personal investment in the artistic spectrum. Selection
(...) Thus, the "off", he revealed some wonders of symbiosis between a particular framework and an address intense, which also involves a Working actor - in terms of personal investment - going beyond the theater. Coincidentally, they are often the work of non-hexagonal francophone.
(...) Kiwi is not a monologue, but it closely resembles it. Part of Quebecers Daniel Danis follows the stories of two real-time street children. Another topic atrocious other artistic means to humanize, paradoxically. On the darkened stage, an infrared camera continuously tracks the faces of the actors, almost invisible. Yet the only conscious of their presence gives expertly saved a soul to the screens.
Language Danis, simple and poetic, with the exception of a few changeovers in the pathos, there is a corresponding visual smooth and disturbing, yet accentuated the rare ability of actors to open their faces . "It's like telling stories, alone in her bed", says the actress Marie Delhaye after the show. Or how to thwart the excesses in putting technology to the service once the game really
CROSS ~ Didier Méreuze
Saturday, July 26, 2008
"A AVIGNON, THE BEST OF OFF. In an unequal offer, here are some choices of entertainment in the form of strokes heart
... If not all are of equal interest, it is nevertheless a happy surprise. Starting at the Theatre de la Manufacture, by Kiwi , shattering descent into the underworld of street kids, Daniel Danis of Quebecers whose site of La Croix has already echoed. "
ECHOES ~ Gilles Costaz
Monday, July 28, 2008
... Among contemporary writers, Quebec's Daniel Danis was strong in the use of new techniques with Kiwi , the story of destitute children living in the margins of a criminal society: players play behind screens and are seen only through the images filmed live "
THE CROIX.com ~ Didier Mereuze
Thursday, July 10, 2008
"a hard part but hopeful
Among the thousands of shows off this year, it is not always easy to find happiness. But there is the part of Daniel Danis: "Kiwi".
Daniel Danis is an author that are well known in France for several years. This is a Quebecer who has the distinction of having worked there 15/20 years as a lay missionary at an orphanage founded by an English clergyman. This detail is not the story as it corresponds to the spirit of his writing, which focuses on people a little lost, to those in pain, people in the thirst of love.
is what we find in any theater that has been seen in France since 1995 with pieces like "Ashes and Stones", "Le chant du Dire-say" or "The Language-in -Language Dogs rock. " Daniel Danis has been assembled including Alain Francon, which is a reference and Theatre Open Lucien Attoun.
There, in my case, this is the first time I see him as director-en-scene. Initially, this piece might be quite commonplace. This is the descent into the depths of street kids a little girl who lives in a slum will be demolished to prepare for the Olympics. Abandoned by her family, she will be alone until a young band recovers and leads to their families. We think a lot to "Les Miserables" and Gavroche except that Victor Hugo wrote in the 19th century and here we are in the 21 th century but things have not changed much.
mean the whole litany of these street kids who sniff glue, steal, prostitute themselves and, in fact, dream of creating a sort of phalanx of utopian life. In general, it ends badly when it ends there pretty well. There will be a resurrection, which is symptomatic Danis. Beyond this story is beautiful, without sordid and uncompromising, this is interesting work on both the text and video.
A video that is never a bidding war over the image and on the actors. These disappear, appear on the screen with blends archival and processing of images that give a poetic journey, very violent but loving. It's really very beautiful and the actors, Amann Baptiste Marie Delhaye are too. In history, there is a maturity, outlook on life is terrible, a mixture of old and lived the life of innocence. And even when talking about prostitution, drugs, it is with affection and hopeful. "
WEBTHEA ~ Jean Grapin
Thursday, July 17, 2008
" ... The text of the dimension Danis a tale both cruel and unrealistic. It would be tragic if he did not show the good side of things, necessarily. The hope, nevertheless, is tender, always. Serving this writing, the staging that combines gaming and film screenings, brings a rare balance sobriety where intimacy prevails on the spectacular. Surprisingly, the video brings a subtle aura, extra emotional. The cameraman takes the place of a puppeteer. Shielding, it portrays. The actors, who play in the dark, intermittently appear as extras in the interstices of their projected image, like so many close-ups of their being. This co-presence of actors and the image is a rare effect to be welcomed: there is the new territories. "
THE MONDE.fr ~ Martine Silber
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Marathon without (too much) trouble of La Manufacture, this singular place well off as its director Pascal Keiser said in an interview with Emile Lansman, and take a shuttle since some of the scheduled performances take place outside the walls of the rink Foncouverte.
It was worth it. Kiwi is a collaboration between Quebec and Belgium's Daniel Danis Benedict Dervaux who worked for the show on France 3 and Striptease with brothers Dardenne. While Daniel Danis wanted to tell the story of Kiwi girl who finds refuge in abandoned a band of street children he met Benedict Dervaux who filmed a documentary on street children in Romania after the fall of Ceauscescu. Their collaboration can mix storytelling and reality, theater and film. Both young actors are filmed live on stage with an infrared camera while marching behind these images sometimes, sometimes pre-filmed images. The story of Kiwi is terrible and does not end though because the film was originally intended for a teenage audience. We preparing the Olympic Games in the city where they live and must clear the trash. The authorities have ordered the police to evacuate slum dwellers to be destroyed. The police chased the children in the best case in prison, but does not hesitate to kill them. To survive, these children and adolescents who have formed their families and all bear the name of a fruit or vegetable, beg, steal and prostitute themselves to earn enough to survive and fulfill their dream of buying a house. "
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In Kiwi, Daniel Danis, one of the most performed playwrights in Quebec and abroad, focuses on street children. This is a shocking piece, an original show and absolutely necessary that should interest a wide audience (from 13 years) for the subject, of course, but also his treatment, which places a strong visual arts. The play begins as Kiwi has twelve years and ended the year fifteen. Three-year nightmare that ends like a fairy But (...) The film language is virtuosic: angles, framing, perspective, height, fuzzy grain of the image, rhythm, everything is carefully thought out. And formal mastery of this show is quite fruity and flowery language of Daniel Danis.
Writing very colorful, bright, open to better horizons. Because, with this remarkable "movie theater", the reality, took in the face, rubs to modern tale.
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