THE COMMANDOS PERCU

RYTHME FEU (Rhythm Fire) is a sensitive and musical exploration of the deep ambiguity that characterizes our relationship with fire. A fundamental, ancestral, almost sacred element, fire embodies both destruction and comforting warmth, danger and caution, desolation and consolation.
Fire attracts, gathers, unites around the hearth. Yet it only takes a breath, an excess, for it to escape control, overflow, and frighten.
Its change of rhythm suddenly becomes a source of fear.
This performance is built around a simple yet essential question: why did we want to master fire?
Long before warming ourselves or cooking food, perhaps we were simply fascinated by its light, by the dance of shadows it casts, by the rhythm of its combustion.
Les Commandos Percu question this primal fascination. Through music, they place fire back at the center — not as a tool or a danger, but as an object of contemplation and reverence.
Fire is a living presence: it crackles, pulses, breathes.
It has its own music, its own language, its own tempo.
How does this natural rhythm — made of crackles, breaths and bursts — dialogue with our inner rhythm, our fears, our impulses to control, our moments of contemplation?
In this research, fire becomes a living element, an organic partner with whom Les Commandos Percu maintain a dialogue. Combustion acts as a sonic and visual being, a performer within the staging. The dramaturgy brings together fire, rhythm, musicians and audience.
All participate in the construction of a fleeting collective magic.