News for 2011:
External Combustion has had a very intense autumn 2010 producing shows and pyromusicals for towns and cities across the UK with a highlight being a large performance commission for Bradford's Christmas Lights switch on. The event was given over to us with a brief to produce a spectacle and performance piece, this we did with great success with a show entitled 'The Southern Lights'. Go to new projects for further description and documentation.
Once again the company saw in the New Year with style and grand aerial displays fired simultaneously from two city centre sites and the production of a new large-scale performance 'A Brief History of Fire', commissioned for Cardiff's New Year's Eve celebrations and sited in the grounds of Cardiff Castle, this show brought together performance, classic fire images and mechanics, bespoke MIDI controlled flame machines and hundreds of pyrotechnic and firework cues to an enlightening and exciting soundtrack, all of which became the Pyropoint presentation for lecturer in combustion studies Prof. Magnus Burns. Go to new projects for more.
'A Brief History of Fire' and 'Southern Lights' joins our collection of developed shows that can be booked in an adaptive form to suit most venues and festivals throughout the UK and Europe.
2010 was the 20th year the company has pioneered the use of pyrotechnics and fireworks at Glastonbury Festival, producing collaborative shows in Theatre and Circus and as finale to headline acts at the main stage. Very difficult sites have been negotiated to bring amazing shows to 10's of thousands at the biggest festival in the world.
The company is now in the process of updating all our archive of commissioned and site specific performances, large- scale spectaculars and collaborative projects. All video documentation is currently being collated and placed on the Vimeo video sharing site, please use this link vimeo to visit our amazing and expanding show archive.
This year sees the completion of a new performance and installation piece 'Prometheus' Garden', this project involves collaboration with performers, musicians, blacksmiths and ceramicists along with the company's use of flame machines, kinetics, video and pyrotechnics.
Design and planning is on going for our projects for spring and summer, including shows for several international festivals and major civic events.
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