THIS IS THE STORY OF THE MEETING BETWEEN A CITY, HUMAN BEINGS AND THEIR GIANT PERFORMING ANIMALS, LES MÉCANIQUES SAVANTES.
Les Mécaniques Savantes, for which the company created two giant spiders, was performed for the first time in Liverpool, European Capital of Culture in 2008, and then in Yokohama in 2009. For each city, we create a new project, a new object.
Every production is different. Other Mécaniques Savantes are expected to turn up at planned major world events. These giant performing animals love to appear at large human gatherings. On each occasion, La Machine Company studies them and operates them throughout the city, thus transforming it into a scenic space.
These machines feed an unusual vision of theatre, reading movement as a language, and in turn a source of emotion. The operators, engines, animals and musicians intermingle, confront and tune in with each other, thus creating images that change our relationship with the city, suddenly transformed.
PYROMÈNES célèbre le feu en mouvement et l’intimité mystérieuse qu’il engendre. A mi-chemin entre le spectacle et l’installation vivante, PYROMENES est conçu comme un projet de territoire en lien étroit avec l’architecture et les habitants.
Faire du feu. Parce qu’ils n’ont qu’une idée en tête, celle de partager le feu, les Pyrophiles investissent la ville.
Rencontrer l’autre. Parce qu’ils détiennent un savoir-faire mais qu’ils ont besoin d’aide, les Pyrophiles sollicitent les habitants.
Célébrer l’embrasement. Parce que le feu détend les corps et réchauffe l’âme, les Pyrophiles s’adonnent à leur cérémonie d’embrasement.
THE BEST WAY TO APPROaCH THIS PYROTECHNIC AND CULINARY FAIR, IS AS A GOURMET keen on STRONG SENSATIONS.
Candle shooting, flamed peach, a roasting spit or a chocolate machine are the highlights of this production that comes straight from the great tradition of fairground arts. Here, the actors become operators and lead the audience as they discover eight stalls that tantalize both the eyes and the tastebuds !
With this new creation, La Machine offers up a return to the world of our childhood and of farce. Delicacies and delights, but also unexpected flavours await you at the bottom of staged cooking pots and on the end of quaint fishing rods.
A CLEVER MIX OF FIRE AND fireworks, FLAMMES OFFERS UP A SUCCESSION OF sceneS, adorns or transforms URBAN SPACES, and walks AUDIENCEs around for A NEW VISION Of THEir CITY.
Beyond the pyrotechnic performance alone, this artistic production is also about a meeting between the pyrotechnists-builders from La Machine and the inhabitants, over the lighting up of their own city. Through their presence in the city over several days, all Flammes’ installations – braziers, stove huts, candles, bonfires – become spaces for human exchange. Because inhabitants are involved upstream in the project, they become stakeholders in the unfolding performance
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Forme spectaculaire brute, à mi-chemin entre exposition et événement pyrotechnique.
Il y a d’abord la poésie des petites choses, la minutie de la préparation, le nom des artifices, les outils, les ingrédients. Artificiers, fournisseurs, fabricants… Les paroles de ceux qui font de l’art pyrotechnique leur quotidien ponctuent l’exposition et laissent entrevoir la passion, leur lien privilégié avec le feu.
Il y a aussi l’histoire, la chimie, les sciences de la pyrotechnie, la géographie. Si le feu s’écrit pour le ciel, le sol est son berceau.
Enfin il y a, les yeux levés, la force du moment. Un geste pyrotechnique annonce le rendez-vous : les artificiers convient les visiteurs à l’extérieur. Le rythme des couleurs et du son, précis, puissant et bref.
Et chacun prend la mesure de ce qui se produit lorsque l’on vit un feu de l’intérieur.
