La Machine

2008 - present | France, Worldwide

 

Nantes-based La Machine create large-scale outdoor spectacles with huge mechanical animals. Rachael is the orchestra’s harpist, playing on a moving cherry picker high in the sky, and on a flying temple attached to a crane. She has performed in many shows across France, the UK, Japan, China and Canada:

Le Gardien du Temple – La Porte des Ténèbres – Toulouse, France. October 2024
La Symphonie Mecanique – Toulouse, France. April 2023
Le Dragon de Calais – Calais, France. June 2022
Long Ma and Kumo – Toulouse, France. April 2022
Le Dragon de Calais – Calais, France. October – November 2019
Long Ma and Kumo – Ottawa, Canada. July – August 2017
Long Ma and Kumo – Calais, France. June 2016
Long Ma and Kumo – Beijing, China. September – October 2014
Le Réveil des Animaux – La Roche-Sur-Yon, France. September 2013
Premier Coup de Pelleteuse – La Roche-Sur-Yon, France. August 2012
Les Méchaniques Savants – Reims, France. April 2011
La Symphonie Mecanique – Tours, France. May 2009
Les Méchaniques Savants – Yokohama, Japan. March – April 2009
La Princesse – Liverpool, UK. August – September 2008
 

“The musicians, high on forklifts and cherrypickers around the square, are beginning to drone. Fire bursts from rusty mortars, the manipulateurs climb into position, the band begins its sombre overture, and at last the spider stirs, its eyes flittering, its great legs probing the sea of umbrellas and cameraphones…” – Phil Hogan, The Observer, Sept 2008.