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Fiesta Del Sol & Confetti

“Fiesta del Sol & Confetti has grown into a unique combination of music and street theater. This has made it a festival offering both entertainment and culture to the visitors with ever surprising and varying musical and theatrical acts, attracting a large audience.”

Well, an afternoon of theatre in the sunny city sounded like a lot of Fun! But theatre is not the main course in this festival and that was very noticeable. We started with the acrobatics act of Duo Savar on the market place. They did a very professional act. Usually I find acrobatics rather boring, but they added a playful element with their “game of attraction and repulsion“…

Then we sat down for a drink, but the market place was not a good place to relax today. It was difficult to have a conversation because of the noise of four different kinds of music at the same time. But we were able to enjoy ‘walking theatre’ like a ‘police officer’ with large fake moustache, which made him look very much like a character from a Dutch television series. He also had a blue flashing light on top of his cap and his bicycle was equipped with a siren. [Later I heard this policeman was LeoNARdus.]

And ‘Sky Dreams’ walked by too: “…big dancing sculptures in the air with choreographic elements, playing an artistic game with the wind…” Beautiful!




At three o’clock LeoNARdus was due in the Nieuwstraat, but we could not find the stage where he would perform. [Later I was told that it wasn't LeoNARdus we saw here, but one of the creations of "Gentle Mental"] It turned out he didn’t need a stage! Suddenly we saw him coming. Dressed in… Er…. It was kind of an animal skin. He looked like a cave-dweller. He made contact with the audience by looking at them in a softening way. Or he walked along with them for a while. Then again he climbed a tree. Then he made contact with a young couple, chatted with them for a while, pushed the guy aside playfully, picked up his girlfriend and walked away with her. All in a very playful and friendly manner. Then again he walked on all fours and tried to make contact with a dog. He also came towards us and ate greedily from Julia’s French fries with mayonnaise, chili sauce and onions. He also offered me a French fry and although I prefer mine with saté sauce I couldn’t refuse this

Then it was time for the sambadromô: “In a procession of a dozen of samba groups the visitor soon feels himself in Rio de Janeiro. The heavy vibrations of the big drums, the surdo, can be felt throughout your body and the rhythm flogs you up until you cannot remain standing still.” That was certainly true! I cannot stand still watching this, I was caught by the groove! Of course we saw dancing girls, barely dressed in Brazilian style and many samba bands. Among them for instance “She Boem” (She Boom) – you guessed it – a drum band manned with only women!

We took a white beer on a terrace near the station. In the mingling of people over there I noticed two ladies who were clearly over dressed for a relaxed afternoon in the city. No wonder! They turned out to be two of the actresses in the next performance we were going to see Tri:

“Three women in they own comfortable private environment. Three separate, independent worlds of their own. The audience can have the voyeuristic pleasure of watching these ladies who are totally unaware of this. Each of them is alone in her own private environment doing the things she does when nobody is looking.

Then suddenly this peaceful image is disturbed by a sudden switch a moment of awakening”

On the pavement in the Nieuwstraat each of them had a separate little decor. A carpet with a bed for the first one, a tiled piece of floor with a toilet for the second and a carpet, chair, table and a bird’s cage for the third one. It is a pity it was so very noisy, this made it very difficult the hear and understand. I am afraid, most of the audience will not have understood a thing of the whole play. But it was nice to watch!

The same goes for Sam Shine: “These long-legged ladies have the world at their feet. At least they think they do. In all their beauty they dance and shine and flirt…”

More information can be found at: www.fiesta-del-sol.nl

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