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 "The 8th Wonder" Show duration: approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes Fixed show Audience capacity: 3000 people Chipichanga, our hero, is challenged by a Super 'Genie' to discover the "8th Wonder". He will embark on a little boat, pulled, buffeted and pushed by a dozen little genies, he sets off to discover this Wonder of the World. To succeed, he has to affront the seven other Wonders, answer riddles on pain of death, encounter fantastic characters (Leonardo da Vinci, The Trojan Horse, The Queen of Saba), cross the past and the present. He will comb the Mediterranean from east to west, from north to south, to at last realize that the Promised Land is not the end of a journey, but the journey itself. It is the skiff on which we sail the seas of life, the boat of dreams keeping us afloat amidst an inclement world. The show takes place at night, in the open air, in a spacious area like a town square or parking lot. It is easily accessible for large audiences. The audience arrives into a circular area and discovers a Mediterranean port and its acoustic atmosphere. The marvels appear one by one throughout the show, allowing the audience to move about to follow the story. The inflatable characters come to meet the spectators, manipulated from the ground by actors moving amongst the audience. A group of actors play in the audience and up high, with song, dance, and acrobatics. The huge inflatable's, flying or fixed, live music, and image projections all create the tale of the 8th Wonder. "Simurgh" Type of show: Mobile with 4 fixed staged scenes Show length: variable Audience capacity: 5,000 For this show, flying 'inflatable's', differing decors, pyrotechnics and a twenty member cast come together to give the visual dimension needed for a large capacity crowd. The music presented has an important role, as this show uses 4 live musicians. An inflatable mobile cage, which houses the musicians and the technical elements (sound system and lighting) is at the center of the parade. Other characters evolve around this 'age' amongst the public. These 'bird' actors and musicians help to transform the public into bird 'whistlers'. This Persian fairytale, ‘The language of birds' written by Attar in the thirteenth century is the foundation for the show's story line: This tale is a mystic epic, whereby the birds seek their king, 'the Simurgh'. When they finally arrive at his palace, behind the seven walls, they discover that they themselves are the 'Simurgh' and that the Simirgh can simultaneously be one and all. "Don Quichotte" Fixed show Show length: 1 hour Audience capacity : 2,000 An adaptation of the famous book by Miguel de Cervantes published in 1605! The show is played in a fixed area for a large capacity crowd. There is no need for a stage, as the story unfolds amongst the public from several points in the show area. The audience is invited to follow the action from spot to spot in order to keep up with the aerial adventures of our hero. From the 'village fete' atmosphere to the deepest tragedy, all shared moments are truly poetic. Actors, ‘inflatables’ and firework technicians with the participation of the public make of this show a truly pleasurable experience. Once upon a time, there was a proud but clumsy knight, with a noble spirit brimming with tales of wonderful chivalry, and dreams of going from battle to battle to save the world. Our hero, an eternal lover of an inaccessible planet and knight of the worthy cause, puts on an ill fitting suit of armour and escapes astride the clouds, which hang from his illusions. Jumping over obstacles, affronting the worst of foes, going from the ridiculous to the most dramatic, Don Quichotte recreates the world unto his fashion. Just when he is about to accomplish his quest and meet his loved one, he must face an ultimate challenge, the terrifying and all too real 'Knight of mirrors'. Will reason be stronger than folly? "Moon" Production: September 2002 for Taipei's Moon Festival (Taiwan), in front of the presidential palace, for an estimated public of 30,000 people Fixed Show Show length: approximately 1 hour Audience capacity: 15 000 people or greater The show, having been conceived for a large capacity crowd, uses mainly spectacular images that increase in intensity as the show progresses. It addresses a diverse public of all ages, adults and children, and is always played above the public so as to be seen by everybody at the same time. Whatever text is used, it is spoken in the native tongue. In china this is the only day, where we can perhaps see human forms drawn on the Moon, a man and a woman. This show portrays the eternal rapport between man and the moon, our natural satellite, which every night watches and shines down on us. The Moon, a woman of three faces, who according to her cycles of youth, maturity and old age, has inspired man since the dawn of time. From the first imaginary space traveler and predecessor to Jules Verne the Greek 'Lucien de Samosate' to Galileo, H.G.Wells, Cyrano de Bergerac, Neil Armstrong, to mention but a few of the worlds legends and cosmic accomplishments, the Moon has always stirred man. Through our character, ‘Endymion’ (the young shepherd who ‘Seleme’, the mythic symbol of the Moon, takes as a lover), we portray that eternal quest, the search for love ! In the beginning, our hero, is seduced by the playful moon, falls in love with her and chases after her. He must scale, ascend, mount and climb always higher and higher to get closer to her. He must use astuteness, that of which ‘man’ is most capable of, to rejoin his high held dream. The Moon watches on whilst he exhausts himself. All of this he must suffer and that’s not even considering that at such altitudes, one surely meets with strange constellations, serpents, dragons and appeasing Venus’s. At such heights the universe becomes topsy turvy and one might well see curious flying fishes that have escaped from the zodiac. But despite all this, nothing deters our character from his goal... to stretch a line from the earth to the moon, in order to reach and embrace his loved one. "Pearl" Type of show: Mobile show Show length: variable Audience capacity: 5 000 people This spectacle is based on a simple story suitable for the general public, proposes a parade followed by a finale. It is designed so that it can be adapted to requests (specific route, themes to be evoked, etc.). Flexible and extensible, it must be rewritten each time. The spectacle can also be enlarged to include other inflatables depending on the space available or can simply add an event to an existing parade. A pearl is floating, lost in the water not far from a wreck. The pearl speaks, feeling sorry for herself. "Help me!... please… Help! I will give you the most beautiful light in the world but get me out of here… get me out of this hole, out of this trench, away from this scorpion fish hole. I am but a poor blind pearl. A pearl stolen from the depths, smuddled from the waters, dragged to the surface in a pot. I've been fished ladies and gentlemen, exposed to the winds although the air is harmful to me." The world of silence heeds her calls, a cavalry of seahorses comes along, then two laughing squids. The pearl begs them to take her back to the bottom, she would like to take with her some of the light that she found on the surface. Two flying fish enter into the dance, pushing a rainbow ball with their snouts. They all place the pearl on the wreck and this strange looking group make their way into the deep. The parade drifts on, happily and joyously, even when a crab attempts to grab the jewel of the seas. Balls fly, the pearl dives and dodges and escapes from the grips of the crab. But the real danger comes from a confluent street in the form of a starving moray eel. The aquatic creatures panic faced with this predator, the seahorses, the crab and the fish hide especially as the two squids have just been eaten. The pearl finds itself alone with the monster. Blind, she is unaware of the danger that she is in. "Detours d'expedition" Type of show: Mobile show Show length: variable Audience capacity: 5000 Flexible and modest in size, this show adapts easily to various contexts. It brings a spectacular touch to your events thanks to the flying inflatables puppets (created for Expo 02 in Morat in Switzerland). The number of inflatables can vary according to the venues and varying budgets. After a long and dangerous journey throughout the world, having used our soles to the antipodes of broken asphalt, unexplored countries where nobody has ever heard the sound of the coffee machine. We offer to make a detour to your part of the world, to show you our fabulous menagerie. From London to Tokyo, via St Petersbourgh to Johannesburg, all over the world we have been invited !
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