Steampunk Parade

CIE Voyages Extraordinaires

Synopsis

An imaginary machine waits in the yard. Below, a feverish engineer keeps the engine running. Inside, an idle convict, without art or part. Around, agitated and bored, a captain impatient for adventure. Above, with his majestic trumpet, the gramophone they call "Grandma". But all the others? Where are they? All too quickly integrated into the daily routine of the last destination reached. Sir Angus Riff wants an idea, a simple excuse, to start again. Nacho has cultivated plenty of ideas between bars and clandestine betting dens. This time it would be enough to make Grandma's trumpet disappear.

Steampunk Parade is an adventure in the form of an urban circus-theater show that develops among the architectures as a traveling parade. The intention is to transpose the narrative imagery typical of steampunk comics and animation to the narration of the circus and the theater. Nothing is excluded in the development of the show, but it is transformed in situ making the Steampunk Parade an experience different every time, like a new episode of a saga. The characters are adventurers and heroes, unlikely and decisive even in failures to the success of each enterprise. The circus skills are super powers of unlikely heroes. The urban architectures are imaginary settings of incredible adventures. The audience is the co-protagonist of each episode.

The Steampunk Parade is a show that is recreated every time on site according to the route agreed with the event organization. The setup must therefore be preceded by an inspection in which the route and architecture that can be integrated into the narration are identified: architectural elements, windows, balconies, front facades, trees, commercial businesses, courtyards, gardens, stairs, etc.

Company

Voyages Extraordinaires are actors, clowns, mimes, acrobats, tightrope walkers, circus performers and musicians who have met and worked together since 2002 in many festivals and street theater and circus reviews. Each of them has their own journey and each is different and extraordinary, just as the story of each individual formation is different. Voyages Extraordinaires is the name with which this meeting of artists has generated the experience of the Steampunk Parade.

Organising and collaborating people or organisations

A production by BaRaMu.oRg - and supported by: Mirabilia Festival (CN) | Magie al Borgo Festival (BG) | Mare Culturale Urbano (MI) | Circumnavigando Festival (GE)