The Lady Next Door | Dulcinée Langfelder & Cie

Dulcinea Langfelder is joined in this piece by Jean Maheux (as The Man Next Door). Langfelder and Maheux have pooled their artistic resources to fashion this eccentric and passionate life story from the elements of mime, dance, theater and song.

What happens when her universe/university is an American television? Her teachers: Walt Disney, Humphrey Bogart, and Groucho Marx? When you’re alone, and in a midlife crisis? One-on-one with a television, “The Lady Next Door” mocks life. In a world where myth and truth jostle like clothes in a dryer, she lets herself slip into the contradiction between her disappointment and her deep desire to live.

This play has been presented more than a hundred times around the world and was even adapted for the cinema by Diane Poitras in 1996.

Dulcinea Langfelder doesn’t resemble anyone else. Choreographer, dancer, mime, actress, comedienne and singer, she melds disciplines unapologetically. [...] She has one foot in innovation and the other in entertainment. [...] Without visibly touching it, she manages to put her finger on the little scar that remains sensitive despite the passing of time.

Jean Maheux and DL are actors, singers, mimes, dancers. Their performances are thought-provoking and seductive. Especially seductive…because the gravity of the propos doesn’t prevent them from being funny and moving

The Lady Next Door tells the story of a woman dealing with some heavy demons. And the audience reactions as well as the artistic milieu tell her that she speaks to their own emotions. People of both sexes and all ages tell me that they see themselves in the character. This is the highest compliment I can imagine. Better than to admire my technical performance, which is a means and not an end

Credits

Concept and choreography : Dulcinée Langfelder

Le Voisin : Jean Maheux

Direction : Alice Ronfard

Music :
I’m a Stranger Here, Myself : Kurt Weil/Ogden Nash, Piano : Claude Choinière
Concerto en sol majeur (G major) : Maurice Ravel

Lady Next Door - Teaser

Credits