A show with Circus Humor y colorful tight costumes!..
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Presents:
El Folk Chou! A show of Circus, Humor and Colorful tight Costumes!.. A parody about Mexican culture and folklore carried on by the combination of pantomime and clown art with music and circus skills. A speechless comical work, suitable for all ages and adaptable to every situation. It's Mexico, the sun, the trumpet, the Mariachi and a lot of amusing parodies. A Multidisciplinary Show performed by eccentric characters from Cabaret Capricho. It unites many disciplines of Circus, Physical Theater and interaction with the aim of provocation and creation of seductive images around the notion of the intimate Folklore and Mexican Traditions now devised through the new vision of Circus and Performing Arts.
Synopsis (for promotion purposes): Join us beautiful lady! Join us dear mr. gentleman! Come to discover the songs by the weepy Don Caramelo! Come and admire to Doùa Bella, who dances in the wind and takes down the stars! If you listen a stray bullet be ready! It might be Joe Pistolas with his sad heart he’s scary!
Be astonished with the grace of the MexiKen! He’s got love for all girl and for you.. of course he has too!.. Come to enjoy El Folk Chou! A show of Circus, Humor and colorful Tight Costumes!! Ahoooa!..
Artistic Concept Circus Theater Show with duration of 60 minutes. Speechless and with a high visual impact. With a structure of routines led by music of traditional Mexican roots with contemporary arrangements. The show can be performed with live music or recorded according to the needs. The show is conformed by a set of delicate sequences of acts integrating acrobatics, clown, contortion, juggling, dance, theater, and music with a high emphasis to the participation of the audience. Everything guided and performed by extravagant characters like: Doña Bella, Don Caramelo, Joe Pistolas and MexiKen. They all communicate through gestures and “universal language” presenting one by one their incredible and irreverent abilities. The show explores the mixing of Traditional styles of Costumes and Customs of our land’s Folklore, with the experience of Circus and Visual Theater. For this creation we present Costumes, headdresses and Make ups created by Alejandro Rincón and Rombo firm, as a result of the study of Mexican traditional graphics and the way that the new visual artists represent it. That’s how emerges the special mix of colors and styles that aims to express that identity of Integral Folk between performing virtuoso and our Mexican Cultural Heritage.
You are all welcome to the celebration!.. A Spectacular Spectacle!.. A Carnival of sublime and elegant moments that reintroduces the essential overtones of circus traditions and Mexican Folklore. A parade full of surprising surprises!.. A very special night! Where your eyes wont believe what they see!.. Welcome to ¡El Folk Chou!..
“I’ll never forget those pearl smiles with sombreros!“ Fidel Castro “everybody needs a little cha cha cha!” very old Grandma
CHARACTERS
IMAGES
PAST SHOWS
2016 •
Tesechoacan Festival - Playa Vicente, Veracruz
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Winter season Teatro Jaime Torres Bodet - Guadalajara
2015 •
Youth and children’s Book Fair - Xalapa, Veracruz
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International Family Festival - Tlaquepaque
2014 •
Festival Cultural Iteso – Tlaquepaque, Jalisco
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Teatro Cavallerizza Reale – Torino, Italia
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Festival of Games and street Traditions Tocatí – Verona, Italia
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25th Aniversary SITEUR – Guadalajara, México
• Etzatlán’s International Arts Festival FiLA – Jalisco
2013 • San Sebastian del Oeste Cultural Festival – Jalisco • Siguiente Escena International Festival – Queretaro, Qro.
2012
• 6th Mezcal Fair – Teul de Gonzalez Ortega, Zacatecas
• Christmas Cultural Festival – Colima, Colima • Independence day celebration Foro 9 – El Grullo, Jalisco • 7th Sexual Diversity Festival, Teatro Fernando Calderón - Zacatecas • XXII Fiestas de la Vendimia, CEARTE, Ensenada, Baja California Norte • Sumer season, “trópico de circo”, Teatro Guadalajara del IMSS • La Paz city Foundation Cultural Festival, Baja California Sur • Opening season at Teatro Jaime Torres Bodet, Guadalajara •Todos Santos Art Festival - Baja California Sur 1st Tour
2011 •FiCHo. Festival internacional de Circo y Chou de México - Guadalajara •IV Circus and Street Arts International Encounter. Centro Nacional de las Artes. Mexico City •Rodará Festival Gala. Puebla •VI Cirkonvención Mexicana Gala.
Cuernavaca, Morelos • Zacatecas National Fair 2011 • 3rd Caravana Capricho presenting EL FOLK CHOU in Europe: France (Paris y Aurillac), Germany (Stuttgart, Munich), Hungry (Budapest), Serbia (Summer flame festival - Novisad) and Slovenia (Anna Desetnica – Lent Festival) • • • • •
Caleidoscopio Festival – Infolectura -Guadalajara 53th Book Fair & University Cultural Festival – Universidad de Guanajuato. Teatro Principal CUCEA, Vive Cultura Festival. Universidad de Guadalajara. Colegio Once Mexico, Cultural Week. Galería Teu Lloc, 7th Anniversary. Guadalajara.
2010 • Varieté Cirkera en Karpa Demente, Mexico D.F. • 1st Anniversary Cultural Center “El Circo”, Queretaro, Qro. • Opening season at Teatro Guadalajara del IMSS.
2009 • Palacio de Hierro, 1st Anniversary – Zapopan Jalisco • XV Anniversary Tequila’s Regulation Council - Instituto Cultural Cabañas Guadalajara
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS Duration of the show: 60 minutes.
Set-up time: 3-4 hours Set-down: 1.5 hours Stage 8 X 6 meters with exits on sides and backstage Curtains: White cyclorama, black curtains on sides, 1 black screen or curtain for partition
Aerial Acts 1 Strong and safe structure at 7m. height with point of anchorage that supports 1 ton. With adecuate accessibility for proper installation
Audio Console table with cable RCA-Mini Plug to plug a Macintosh laptop 2 wireless microphones with standing base 2 Monitors 1 Audio Technician
Lighting 3 points for installation 12 Leekos ellipsoidals 26º 1000 watts. Front, Back, Streets 20 par 64 1000 w. 1 Spot light 2000 w 1 smoke machine 1 console table 1 light technician who knows well the equipment
Video (FOR OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE) 1 VideoProyector 5000+ lúmens. 1 Screen and camera next to the stage for closed-circuit
BackStage 2 Tables (1.50 m x 1.50 m) for props on the sides of the stage
Scenography Series of colorful lightbulbs 10watts Piñatas Traditional toys / Guidons
SPECIFIC NEEDS FOR TRANSPORT: • 1 Metal Hoop 1.20m Diameter • 1 Unicycle • 1 Crinoline divided in 4 Metal Parts 1.30mt x 1.30mt • 2 PLASTIC BOXES 15kg with Technical material and props • 1 Big Case 20kg for Costumes and Accesories • 1 Trumpet
Spaces 1 Big dressing room with toilet, light, mirrors * Space available _1_ day(s) before show for rehearsing with all the equipment * Enough time before show to set up and technical verifications with light, sound, audio * Catering for all the team (suggestions: wáter, coffee, bread, fruits, chocolate, carbohidrates) *Enough people for Staff and security
• 1 Guitar Case • 3 Toy Horses • 6 Personal Baggage
Credits Cast
Violeta Castro César Omar Barrios Fernando Mánica Paul Valle
Creative Team Illumination
Selene González
Audio
Erik Kasten
External view Recorded Music
Anna Cetti Lalo Guerrero / Devotchka / Carla Morrison / Beirut / Lhasa de Sela / Mastreta / Nat King Cole
Design and Making of Costumes, Hairdresses, Props and Make-Up Violeta Castro / Alejandro Rincón / MariJo Cázares Artistic Direction
César Omar Barrios
Production
CUARTA . arte acción Les Cabaret Capricho la mar o ma . Estudio de Formación y Creación en Circo y Teatro Físico FiCHo . Festival Internacional de Circo y Chou de México
Contact Selene González (Technical Coordinator) / M. +52 1 (33) 1175 9444 César Barrios (Director) / M. +52 1 (33) 1439 7408 T +52 (33) 15943605 cabaretcapricho@gmail.com www.cabaretcapricho.com.mx www.facebook.com/CabaretCapricho Twitter @cabaretcapricho
cuarta won´t take any responsibility for “any emotional out-of-body experience, violent acts, unexpected behavioral changes, delusion of grandeur, sporadic depression, displays of passion or any other crazy idea during our shows”