{"id":1013,"date":"2017-12-19T10:07:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T09:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2017-12-19T10:17:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T09:17:31","slug":"running-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/19\/running-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Running down&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s the &lsquo;slowing down&rsquo; period before Christmas &#8211; well, for me at least!<\/p>\n<p>Here in Auch the town hall organised a &lsquo;street&rsquo; spectacle to coincide with the opening of the Christmas Market. Like last year they invited the Cie AKOUMA and for 45 minutes we had fireworks and flame throwers in the centre of the town &#8211; great fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-7s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1016\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-7s-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-7s-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-7s-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-7s-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-7s.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-4s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-4s-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-4s-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-4s-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-4s-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-4s.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-3s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-3s-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-3s-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-3s-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-3s-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CieAkouma17-3s.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great fun!<\/p>\n<p>On Monday I had a rendezvous with the Cie La Meute at CiRCa &#8211; they are here on a two week residence preparing their new spectacle \u00ab\u00a0Le Cri de l&rsquo;Oeuf\u00a0\u00bb (The Cry of the Egg) &#8211; this involves a HUGE metal &lsquo;wheel of death&rsquo; structure, and CiRCa is one of the few places in France where this can be used indoors (the spectacle is for outdoors)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1017\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/La-Meute-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1017\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/La-Meute-1-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/La-Meute-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/La-Meute-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/La-Meute-1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Le Cri de l&rsquo;Oeuf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The idea is that the Mathieu and Thibault balance on this thing, then they make their way into the cages at each end, and make it revolve &#8211; they did, and it was pretty spectacular. This is only the beginning &#8211; it will be interesting to see how the show evolves.\u00a0 More images of the residence can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/LaMeute\">seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s the &lsquo;slowing down&rsquo; period before Christmas &#8211; well, for me at least! Here in Auch the town hall organised a &lsquo;street&rsquo; spectacle to coincide with the opening of the Christmas Market. Like last year they invited the Cie AKOUMA and for 45 minutes we had fireworks and flame throwers in the centre of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/19\/running-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Running down&#8230;&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}