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the airbone event

Which child has not gazed, dreaming after a mobile, nose pointed under the zephyrs of little characters, balancing at the end of a nylon string with the slightest breeze ?
Imagine the same mobile complete with drumming Majors in flesh and bone. All of this hung from below an arch, a vault or lifted by a crane. Imagine a frail trapezist performing in the middle of this airborne cluster, sewing a seed of folly with her gracious swing. Imagine the rich beats, strident rhythms and deafening rolls distilled by this sextet of flying Drummers…


THE DETONATOR
One foot in the tradition, the other in the provocation, a click of flamboyant drummers sews their seed of folly during their rhythmic passage. An flash apparition of a Commando of Drummers. Musical passages in single file or huddles of sardines. A joyous ambulation playing with the movements of the public, valorising the local architecture such as balconies, fountains…

THE BOUQUET
The ultimate apparition of the « Tambours » will be the « take off » of the Mobile which will evolve, with their music, over the public 30 or 40 meters high.

« En lo mas alto de un enorme mobil infantil colgaban siete soldados de carne y hueso – que no de plomo – que en ningun momento dejaron de tocar sus tambores para la trapecista que arriesgaba piruetas sobre sus cabezas.” ( La Rioja)

FORMAT
Daylight or nocturnal show
Duration: 45 minutes in two segments:
- prologue : parade on ground level with the public (30 mn)
- airborne finale (15 mn)
Lifting capacities necessary : 60 tonne telescopic crane with inclined fly jib
LX : 4 followspots HMI 2.5 kW
Sound : PA system in consequence to site, 7 HF microphones
Food and accommodation: 10 persons

© J.Verhoustraeten
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