Les Commandos PERCU A delightful show, a great moment of crushing pyrotechnics. B.P.M. Bombs Per Minute (C) Vincent Blot - La Teste de Buch
(C) Bernard Lehelley - Coup de Chauffe à Cognac B.P.M. Bombs per Minute Is destruction a creation? As an answer to the violence of the world, Bombs per Minute attempts to drown the audience in noise and rage with the intention of reaching peace and silence in the end. >> Video online - click here - 1 58 << «The artistic performance is the most complicated revolutionary action. But sometimes necessity implies a direct action deprived of complexity. Sometimes beauty cannot answer to social violence.» Lê Quan Ninh, percussionist Night-time - Outdoor - Fixed Duration : 35 mn A clock ticks. Bells toll. Fireworks erupt into the night sky in a continuous, hypnotic flow. The tempo quickens and a torrent of light and sound is unleashed - a furious and beautiful explosion of energy that sets your pulse racing. As well as being a jaw-dropping display of pyrotechnic skill, this beautiful choreographed show questions the relationship between violence and creation, and asks us where can we look to find peace in an increasingly angry world.
AN APOCALYPTIC OPENING SCENE The first part of the show starts with a visual and sonorous countdown: the fireworks clock. The audience feels as if the show had always been there. On a ticking rhythm, the pyrotechnics effects rise into the sky in a continuous and hypnotic flow. Hypnotic bells build the pressure. The tempo goes up minute after minute and leads to an apocalyptic opening scene. THE MUSIC PULSATES A COMMUNICATIVE HEAT The second part of the show consits of a series of short but offensive scenes in which the four percussionists turn fire into rhythm and vice versa. They answer to the crackers (the soloist fire), they make bursting bangs with the rhythm of sticks, a wha wha pedal of fire plays with crackling sparks, cymbals explode in the musicians/vulcanologists faces. Violence is only an appearance. The music beats an infectious heat. The final part confirms that all the fury is a catharsis moment full of exultation. All this is just a game, the cry of children making fun of an angry game. After the breaking of sounds and blinding lights, a strange calm befalls. It is peace, where we come from is peace Song of Ingoma war drums. (C) Vincent Blot - Leuven in Scène
REFERENCES Perth International Arts Festival (AUS) / Festival Chalon dans la Rue / Festival de Rue de Ramonville / Fest Arts Libourne / Stockton International Riverside Festival (UK) / Exposition Internationale Zaragoza (SP) / Festival les Arts dans la Rue Strasbourg / Ansan Street Arts Festival (KR) / Fête des Petits Pois à Clamart / Festival Internacional de las Artes de Salamanca (ES) / Festival Toulouse d Eté / Festival La Teste dans les Etoiles à La Teste de Buch / Festival Z ArtsUp à Béthune / Les Contre-Plongées de l Eté à Clermont Ferrand / Festival Les Virevoltés à Vire GENERAL TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS AUDIENCE : several thousand people STAGE : with LIGHT and SOUND system 9 PEOPLE ON TOUR >> Download the technical rider online << (C) Kev Ryan - Derby Festé UK
PRESS REVIEW... «40 minutes astonishing and magnificent. An amazing show.» MORE PICTURES AND VIDEOS ON OUR WEBSITE WWW.COMMANDOSPERCU.COM «A mise en scène absolutely breathtaking. Its billing as an extravaganza of sound, light and fire is an understatement.» «The audience electrified by so much energy spread out asks for more, a truly heroic performance.» «Across an atavistic and post-industiral ritual during which the emotive involvement of the crawd is total, they bring up another world, a modern myth.» (c) G. Freland THE TEAM Mise en scène : Raymond Gabriel / Music and Fireworks : Stéphane Augier, Metty Bénistant, Raymond Gabriel, Bernard Graell, William Perez, Ruddy Thery / Tour Manager : Vincent Gonzalez / Lights : Michel Pradillon / Sound : François Hourtané / Production : Chloé Aubin, Lisa Trouilhet. B.P.M. Bombs Per Minute is a coproduction : L Abattoir, Centre TransNational des Arts de la Rue Ville de Chalon sur Saône Compagnie des Bains Douches. Une production Big Drum 8 route de Saint Loup - 31180 St Geniès Bellevue (Toulouse) - France Licence d entrepreneur de spectacles : 2-1068757 BOOKING CONTACTS : +33 (0)5 61 35 00 77 Chloé Aubin & Lisa Trouilhet - contact@commandospercu.com INTERNATIONAL BOOKING PARTNERS : HH Producties - Amsterdam Tanja Ruiter - +31 616 078 534 /+31 204 082 504 - tanja@hhproducties.nl MUSIC FESTIVALS BOOKING : New Track Prod Fabristi - +33 608 815 807 - fabristi@orange.fr