Madame de D
Madame de D by Torgunn Productions was a dance theatre performance in which the audience met three Rococo women in far too long dresses. These ladies described vanity, jealousy and gluttony.
Madame de D was a concert and dance theatre production aiming to give children, youth and adults a shared experience of Haydn's music and the aesthetic and comedy of the Rococo period.
Information
(Objekt ID 1705)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | 2002 |
| Produced by | Torgunn Productions |
| Audience | Children, Youth, Adults (from 6) |
| Keywords | Dance, Music, Performance for children, Concert |
| Running period | 2002 |
| Duration | 20 minutes plus workshop |
| Website | Torgunn Produksjoner |
Requirements to venue
| Minimum stage width | 6m |
| Maximum stage width | 6m |
| Minimum stage depth | 6m |
| Maximum stage depth | 6m |
| Minimum stage height | 4m |
| Maximum stage height | 4m |
| Lights requirements | Brought with |
| Audio requirements | Must be able to play CDs if the performance is played with out string quartet |
| Blackout | Yes |
| Rigging time | 60 minutes |
| Downrigging time | 30 minutes |
| Audience | 150 |
| Other | Suited for all rooms with clean and solid floors and at least 20 degrees warm. |
Madame de D by Torgunn Productions conveys classical music and performing arts, meaning to encourage the imagination.
Besides Madame de D aims to create an exciting meeting between mime and dance, between the concrete and the abstract and the realist and the absurd.
Sources:
Performing Arts Hub Norway/NAPA, 18.12.2010, http://www.danseogteatersentrum.no/sck/members.shtml?lang=nor&sam=&cat=&gen=&cou=&cri=Torgunn%20Produksjoner&aid=118&prid=1&act=prod
Torgunn Productions, 18.12.2010, http://torgunn.kulturgaarden.no/default.aspx?w=2&p=12&pr=9
National Touring Network for Performing Arts, 18.12.2010,http://www.scenekunstbruket.no/sck/?lang=nor&sam=&tar=&gen=&cri=Torgunn%20Produksjoner&act=skbprod&prid=1&aid=118
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Torgunn Wold Platzack | – Direction |
| Torgunn Wold Platzack | – Choreography |
| Torgunn Wold Platzack | – Costume design |
| Fredrika Bymann-Moberg | – Dancer |
| Soledad Howe | – Dancer |
| Josefin Johansson | – Dancer |
| Emelie Carlsson | – Musician |
| Johanna Dahl | – Musician |
| Jill Johansson | – Musician |
| Emma Svensk | – Musician |
| 2002 – St. Croix-huset, Fredrikstad | Worldwide premiere |
Mari Fossheim, 09.05.2005, Østlandets blad:
"At the first row of seats in Galleri Texas the children sits wide-eyed, paying attention. Because onstage, a wonderful mishmash of music and performing arts. Eager moves, humour and madness frames the dance production which has been performed all over the country".