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FIRE Dominant colors:red, orange ... Olfactory ambiance: |
| The Spice Road unfolds on an oriental-style music: pentatonic scales and
arabo-indian rhythmes with contemporary percussions. Odors of nutmeg, clove, pepper, cinnamon, santal, etc. This spicy basis wakes gradually the senses that soon take fire. Fire as original energy. Incandescent bodies mix with the sand waves of the burning desert. Dancers reply to the sensuality of images. Spices splash the screen with gold and light. Mythical oriental palaces hide precious treasures... In this magic climate, hermetic calligraphies respond to arabesques of flames. |
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EARTH Dominant colors:stone gray, swarthy earth, ochres Olfactory ambiance: |
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sea crossed, the Garrigue offers its aromatic plant scents: resins of labdanum cistus and
pine, rosemary, aspic, lavender, immortals, etc, on a world-music full of onomatopoeias
and shouts. The jerky rhythm, danceable, almost rock & roll, hammers an earthy bass...
The arid Provence under the implacable sun. The horizon swoons, as in a mirage: a painter's madness. The earth cracks, opens on the necropolis and unveils vestiges of passed civilizations. Men have fought here, the stones testify to it when sometimes, in the evening light, they resemble accumulated crania. Men beat the rhythm, at once in the affirmation of their strength and in the expression of an age-old organized chaos. |
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WATER Dominant colors: green, blueOlfactory ambiance: |
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voice descends, limpid, arriving from a cold-colored North. The freshness of moss, river banks, invades space. Men, one after the other, coat long immaculate robes and whirl like spring water in the blue light. Fresh cut grass odors, basil, tomato leaves, water lily. It is the Provence of mysterious and humid valleys, the irrigated Provence, this rich market of cultures born of the miraculous water. A shade shivers on the golden skin of a fluid and unassailable ondine. The woman's body undresses and mingles with the vegetal element to make one with it, to dissolve in the original waters and finally to rejoin the Other in a whirlwind of colors. In infinite corolla fields and stems, all plants undulate at noon in a play of mirrors. |
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AIR Dominant colors:white, blue, pastel, gold Olfactory ambiance: |
| The body has completely taken
off to leave space for the spirit wandering through changing clouds, painted in white
& blue-washed pastels by a giant brush on the sky of the screen. The jasmine of Grasse, suave and heady, invades space. The music has cooled, a serene and majestic feeling accompanies the white tern and chalices' flight. The Woman and her lovers mimic love in a four beat daydream. Inlaid in the intimate depths of flowers, a couple appears in filigree and merges gradually in the golden power of love. Bubbles of happiness burst forth on the screen. |
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LIGHT Colors: millions of colorsOlfactory ambiance: |
| A
red blood mass covers the entire ballet. From this giant womb, limbs then bodies, emerge.
Images have faded, odors also. Alone subsists a red glow on the screen transformed into an
immense mute skin. Children's gurgling announce a birth. Then, risen from the depths of
nothingness, sustained by an ample and penetrating music of Vangelis, a universe of light emerges and unfolds under our eyes... Abstract images, generated by fractal mathematics, beckon us to the kingdom of archetypes, there where all cultural differences are blurred in the fundamental unity of "Quintessence". A Perfume is being born: aerial, bewitching and subtle, it sublimates itself and raises us to a new dimension, to a beyond space and time. Animated fractal images accelerate, explode and pulse as so many hearts inflated with light. |