One of the most startling moments at the sometimes baffling Paris Olympics closing ceremony came when a ‘floating’ grand piano appeared above the Stade de France stage. And, just to add to the drama, it was being played vertically.
It was quite something, but it turns out that the piano’s creator and player, Alain Roche, has done this before. It previously formed the centrepiece of ‘Chantier’, a performance that took place on a construction site, with the piano hanging from a crane.
