shows :
ORIGIN
Exterior / at night
Duration: 60 mins with a 15 min stroll
Capacity: all audiences, several thousand
How do we create society today?
What is the share of universality in our contemporary social functioning?
How did early humans become the social beings we are today?
Language seems to be one of the obvious answers to this question.
But where does language begin? What is it really?
Is it only an arrangement of noises, silences and sounds, intelligible only through learning?
Isn't music a more innate universal language?
Or something more primary, almost primitive?
The drum is the most ancestral source of sound.
It connects worlds, transcends souls with strength and subtlety.
The ground cracks, breath becomes rare, and bodies are bewitched...
ORIGIN tells the story of imaginary beings who meet, discover each other, and gradually build themselves up to form a tribe, to become a society, just as, in the background, we perceive that of humanity as a whole which, beneath its social, cultural or religious disparities, brings us back to our condition as human beings, these social animals who need each other to exist and form a society...
In a bold and original staging, Les Commandos Percu lead the audience to question the functioning of our contemporary society. For 30 years, the history of Les Commandos Percu has been written with Rhythm, Movement and Fire.
Their language is universal. Such are their origins...