BA-BOOM BA-BOOM BA-BOOM BA-BOOM BA-BOOM BA-BOOM BA-BOOM
BA-BOOM BA-BOOM BA-BOOM BA-BOOM BA-BOOM BA-BOOM BA-BOOM
Sound and choreographic performance enacted by volunteer participants of all ages and from all backgrounds (ages 11 to 75 to date) whose heartbeats are broadcast live. Amplified through a mixer that Maguelone Vidal operates, these raw sounds give rise to a sound composition.
Each performer has developed, with choreographer Fabrice Ramalingom, a movement that distinguishes him/ her, emphasizing the primitive gesture chosen by and for each one. It is like a signature that each performer uses to accelerate his/her heart rate and expand the overall sonic range…
BA-BOOM say the living, several dozen times a minute. BA-BOOM: the heartbeat, normally unheard except in moments of extreme intimacy or during a cardiac ultrasound, here, passes through all our layers to immerse us collectively in the depths of its sound, Like the BA-BOOM of the mother’s heart reaches the foetus, the first sound from ‘‘outside’’ is heard, the first irruption of the other in our heart of hearts.
BA-BOOM singular and universal, plural and unique, our cardiac DNA in a certain manner . In a public space, each of us comes to absorb our share of a private moment, making it into a chorus.
Our bodies. Our beating hearts. The blood owing through our arteries. The sound of our lives. The pulse of our cities.
Maguelone Vidal – stage direction, composition, live music
Fabrice Ramalingom – choreographic collaboration
Emmanuel Duchemin – sound engineer
Romain De Lagarde – light engineer
With the one or several groups of voluntering perfomers
Production Intensités
With the support of Théâtre de la Cigalière – SÉRIGNAN.
The show is part of the Performing Arts Support Program Charter Diffusion with Onda (National Office for Artistic Diffusion), Arcadi Île-de-France, l’Oara Nouvelle Aquitaine, l’Odia Normandie, Occitanie en Scène and Spectacle Vivant en Bretagne (five regional offices for artistic diffusion).
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