It is in the city of Liuyang, China,
that the majority of the fireworks used for crowds around the world are produced.
Based on documentary footage shot by themselves in Chinese pyrotechnic factories, and choreographic sequences gleaned from YouTube, Amaury Vanderborght and Cathy Blisson create an outdoor show, on the edge of filmic performance, musical and visual trip, and fireworks display.Playing with the metronomic dimension of the images, the duo questions the mechanics underlying the use of entertainment fireworks as a weapon of mass diversion.National commemorations, sports demonstrations, pop concerts, and other major popular gatherings... What images and symbols do we find drowned in a screen of smoke in the face of the explosion spectacle?A PAL/SECAM project (Blisson + Vanderborght)
Concept: Cathy Blisson & Amaury Vanderborght Documentary Direction and Dramaturgy: Cathy Blisson
Musical Direction and Video Research: Amaury Vanderborght
Liuyang Footage: Dino Sze Lung Liuyang Translation: Wan-Lun Yu
Video Production: Super Tchip
Video Editing: Yoann Stehr & Maxime Jouret
Audio Editing and Mixing: Nathan Foucray-Bretonnière
Pyrotechnic Design: Édouard Grégoire & Gabriel Legrand
Pyrotechnics: Arteventia
Tour Management: Sarah Foubert
Artistic Contribution: Marco Cendron, Nadim Bahsoun
Production Managers: Steven Cayrasso and Agathe Cornez
Production and Development Manager: Philippe Naulot
A PAL/SECAM project in delegated production with Halles de Schaerbeek
Co-Productions: Les Halles de Schaerbeek (BE); La Rose des Vents, National Scene Lille Métropole Villeneuve d’Ascq (FR); Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER (BE); Le PALC, National Circus Center (FR).
With the support of West Kowloon Cultural District (HK), Theater op de Markt (BE), Wallonia-Brussels International (WBI), and the Circus, Street Arts, and Fair Arts Service of the Ministry of Culture of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
FROM THE IMAGINARY OF ENTERTAINMENT TO THAT OF UPRISING: DISRUPTING THE MECHANICS OF UNISON