After Blanca Li's Paris Grand Ball that thrilled audiences for two consecutive editions, a powerful new immersive experience signed by the duo Adrien M & Claire B arrives at Festival dei Due Mondi .

A symbolic and sensory journey through a hypnotic universe that revolves around to a single time-dilated minute, the one that precedes the crossing of the threshold between "before" and "after."

Thanks to a combination of music, lights and interactive projections, the audience moves through space, among the elements, to experience metamorphosis from the point of view of a particle, whether it is a drop, a burning flame, a rising smoke, a quivering ash, a vibrating earth, escaping air, a flowing rain, a rising wave.

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Last Minute was born from an intimate lived experience from Claire Bardainne that led her to reasoning, together with co-creator Adrien Mondot, about the concept of reincarnation: the last-minute journey.

"One day in May 2021," Claire Bardainne recounts, "I scattered my father's ashes by the sea, not far from the bay of Mont St Michel, his childhood home. The awe-inspiring beauty of this moment, the light of this minute stretched to infinity, where my father's body extends to the world, is imprinted in me. Where the dust of his body binds with the earth, the air and the water. My father is the landscape, my father is the sea, my father is the wind, and his drawing is amplified by the trace of an airplane in the clear sky. My father has become immense, limitless, and his time no longer exists; he has become suspended in the present. I am pregnant and as life organizes itself in me to form a new body, life has left another. In a game of mirrors, one body grows while another disintegrates. A father has just left and a son is on the way. Vertigo."

Therefore, the starting point of this project is the end. The minute before we die or before we are born. An experience with a strongly ritualistic character designed to take care of our mourning, our births and our metamorphoses.

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The company Adrien M & Claire B opera in the field of digital arts since 2004 with creations that merge reality and the virtual world thanks to to specially developed computer tools. The focus is on the human being and his body by resorting to a visual language based on play and fun as an expressive means of imagination.