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Royal Fashion
by Dan Puric
Royal Fashion
by Dan Puric
Premiere: 28.05.2014
Last performance: 25.02.2018
Duration: 1 h 40 min / Pause: No
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Dan Puric and the “Passe Partout DP” Company, invite us to a travel in time, placed under the sign of a special quality, a fashion that never goes out of style, with an elegant, seductive, unique and even divine tailoring. “Because this is what royalty means: an exaltation, an ennoblement, a removal from the crowd,” says Dan Puric, the writer and the director of the show. “In terms of life, the woman we love is our queen. She raises us beyond the life we used to live until we met her. Similarly, the man loved by the woman is her king. Thus, love is not a democratic condition, but an aristocratic one”.
A pantomime and classic dance show, “wearing” the costumes of a sensual aristocracy by Doina Levintza, the choreography of Lilia Marcu, in an atmosphere pictured by Corina Grămoşteanu and improved by the light design of Sorin Vintilă, the Royal Fashion show is a window opened by the artist’s soul, which makes the world seem different. It is also a synthesis of the centuries that have distilled and refined this jewelry of the human quality, which will be presented to you in a fascinating state of love and “a kneeling in front of the quality”, as it is called by the director Dan Puric. “As in other shows of mine, I am trying to create a barrier for the bad taste, because I do not want it to come to Romania…Romania burned its butterflies of the values and does the same today, burns them without mercy. That is why I created this show, to turn off the killing light and to open the window for the sunshine to come in. Royal Fashion is a plea for Beauty and Loftiness, for a model that forces you to rise, to leave the quantity for the privilege of a qualitative existence”.
Starting with this season, the Royal Fashion show, a partnership between the “Passe Partout DP” Company and the National Theatre “I. L. Caragiale”, is included in the repertoire of NTB.
Translated by: Prohnițchi Lucia
MTTLC, University of Bucharest
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Ileana Olteanu Violeta Huluba Nadejda Dimitriu Lelia Marcu Adriana Nicolae Dragoș Huluba Ion Parea Adrian Nour Ștefan Ruxanda Silviu Oltean Vadim Rusu Petru Voicu Florin Roșu Toni Dumitrescu Sebastian Petrovici Daniela Niculae Veronica Stoian |
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Andreea Soare Sabina Chirilă Teodora Munteanu Teodora Velescu Teodora Karpatti Silvia Bodeanu Daniela Bodeanu Ionuț Diniță |
"That elegance is the refined, racy, elevated, intelligent and equally natural way of looking, finding and giving pleasure is proven to us by the entire team, coordinated with mastery by the tireless stage director, Dan Puric, who launched towards the spectators questions on the “show society”. The directorial and stage vision on the text of Artist Dan Puric has found expressive scenic counterparts with the aid of an acting collective filled with enthusiasm, allowing the escape, for an hour and forty minutes, from the reality under the dictatorship of mass-media/mainstream, and, simultaneously, a serious warning against the loss of milestones".
Mădălina Dumitrache, Web Cultura – Dancing Steps with History
"Royal fashion is a gift for the Bucharest audience through the light it spreads, through the joy and nobility of this special artistic gesture.
With a somehow changed team (I mean first and foremost dancers), the theatre-dance show, the pantomime show, call it as you wish, seems fresher and better than ever.
...the production is superlative not only for the fabulous colours and lights, intertwined with a masterful orchestration of artists, such as scenographer Corina Grămoşteanu, light designer Sorin Vintilă, for Lelia Marcu’s choreography, but especially for the story Dan Puric, as a scriptwriter and director tells in this show about the elevating thrill of quality. Of art, but also of life. He associates this term to royalty, who knew how to cultivate the rules of protocol and good taste, fine manners, despite the twists of history, for which it sometimes paid with life".
Doina Papp, Adevărul – Royal End of Season at NTB
"Thanks to the choreography signed by Lelia Marcu and the stage movement training orchestrated by Nadia Dimitriu, there are moments when actors and ballerinas are sensibly at the same level (see the waltz, minuet or the dance illustrating Vivaldi’s ”Seasons”, but also the seasons of aristocratic distinction). However, someone could hardly rise at the level of Ionuț Diniță, who simply flies above the stage.
...the reality is that the first and foremost virtue of Dan Puric’s team is homogeneity, the sensibly equal value and everyone’s fierce effort to always be better.
An exceptional moment from the show is the execution of tsar Nikolay II and his family. Even if one knows by heart the odious history of the massacre of the Romanovs, the bloodshed and the flight of angels at the end bring tears to one’s eyes. Your soul hurts when you see again on stage what you already know so well: the place of royal elegance and dignity has been taken by the ”fashion” of blatant lack of culture, by hooliganism, bad taste, visceral ”thinking”…
... total artwork: music, dance, pantomime, message, feeling, direction and first-class acting".
Gabriela Hurezean, Muses and Arms - Royal Fashion, the Distinction of Royalty at NTB
"As a format, some of the spectators have identified a series of similarities to the way Mel Brooks has tackled his “History of the World – Part I” with a similar thematic area. At content level, Dan Puric’s intentions are completely different, in a show dedicated to those attributes which have defined the idea of royalty: elegance and balance, harmony and quality.
The actors – dancers, the ones enabling o representation of such nature, rise above any partisanship of ideas, into timelessness, beyond royalty, imperialism or bolshevism. They are the true heroes, in stories which gain power through their performance. They master the stage brilliantly, being harmoniously connected to the musical rhythm of Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Beethoven or the … Bodyrockers".
Andrei Crăciun, Ziarul Metropolis - "Royal Fashion" – Sunday Show
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu