Following the launch of Bonjour India – incubating dreams, ideas and projects which aim to move the partnership between India and France into the future, Alliance Française of Madras & Phoenix Marketcity hosted anAerial Show – CELESTIAL CARILLON. The aerial show took place on 17th February 2018.
Since 1987, French performance company Transe Express enters the maze of cities, playing with their articulations and surprising passersby. In an effort to bring art outdoors and turn the city into a stage, Bonjour India brings Transe Express to India with Celestial Carillon, an aerial performance inspired by Calder that combines theatre, music and fine arts.
This performance crosses childhood memories of a carillon – a music-box with an automatic set of bells – with grand outdoor fairground rides. A bewitching orchestra of 17 bell-ringers and aerialists is lifted 55 meters skywards in this magical concert and theatre where audiences face artists, and the machinery of the carillon is confronted with architecture.
