A collaboration with Salvador Dali

SCENARIO:

Salvador Dali’s graveyard is created in a town square. It is a surrealist sculpture park which features pyrotechnic trees, burnable sculptures, and many other concrete irrational pyrotechnical furnishings from the Dalinian iconography. The centerpiece of the graveyard is a 40-square metre mirrored-box mausoleum. A funeral cortege of ten giant samba-playing ants and other characters approaches the graveyard accompanied by the piercing sound of firecrackers and enters it through the premonitions of civil war gate, a full three dimensional realisation of Dali's most famous painting.

Criminally-elegant ladies with bodies metamorphosing into chests of drawers exercise their dogs in the graveyard. A pyrotechnic storm erupts from a criminally-elegant lady's crutchbrella. The storm activates the emergence of many Dalis.

A criminally-elegant elongated nude poses whilst Dali sketches her in fire. He then rapidly dashes off a four-metre pyrotechnic self-portrait.

The super flare cauldrons are activated and Dali showers in fire. This is followed by the dreamy passage through the graveyard of the Sleep characters on stilts and crutches. These are animated elongated heads modelled on the celebrated Dalinean image of sleep. They are followed by 16-metre tall illuminated inflatable interpretations of the Dalinean Angelus images, and a pair of enormous inflatable hands, as featured in the painting of Narcissus, which float through the graveyard to the sound of Bach metamorphosing into the foot-stamping rhythm of a pure flamenco.

An oriental scale introduces the Temptations of St. Anthony Parade featuring a pair of four-metre elephants, the criminally-elegant blue nude, a green St. Anthony carrying a pyrotechnic cross, and a host of whirling dervish one-legged Dalis carrying catherine wheels.

An extract from Mahler heralds the entry of an 18-foot steel pyrotechnic realisation of the celebrated Dalinean image of the burning giraffe. This pattern consists of 100 small colour-changing catherine wheels topped with a spine of fire.

This is followed by the whirling dance of one legged Dalis carrying firewheels amongst the tall-as-buildings Angelus inflatables, the Sleeps, and the six-metre inflatable hands. This dance is set against a backdrop of very special effects including a four-metre high burning replica of the premonitions of civil war in paper mache, several large multiple catherine wheel installations (both horizontal and vertical), and roman candle installations.

The final intervention is the dance of Dali and Gala the forty foot tall giant puppet tango specialists. These giant puppets have an animation of movement unequaled by helium inflatables and other types of giant puppet.

The show is topped of with a celebratory bouquet of aerial pyrotechnics.