Luca, a giant boy puppet supporting the La Raza soccer team seems likely to have been inspired by the Royal de Luxe ones, don’t you think?
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Influence of Royal de Luxe spreads
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Jul 14th, 2007
(photo credit: jazamarripae)
It’s interesting when you can see a show like Royal de Luxe having an influence on the culture. I think something like that might have been at work in this dog puppet that was at Barcelona’s Món del llibre, an annual fair to promote book reading/purchasing, oriented towards children. According to [...]
Les Machines de l’île de Nantes
Posted in creatures, puppetry, puppets, sculpture on Jul 3rd, 2007
Thanks to Darthbob from Laprise.org who recently alerted me to a new project related to Royal de Luxe, Les Machines de l’île de Nantes, which opened over this last weekend.
Planned as a new artistic, cultural and tourist venture, and part of an urban renewal of the docklands, it consists of numerous large mechanical creatures to [...]
Now a giant boy marionette
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Feb 16th, 2007
Today I came across this photo of a giant boy marionette, taken in Sydney’s CBD in late January. It’s very much like Royal de Luxe’s little giantess (who has been visiting Santiago, Chile, in the company of a rhinoceros) but I doubt he is theirs. Does anyone know the film company, or what production they [...]
More Royal de Luxe
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Sep 29th, 2006
I’ve been keeping a list of Royal de Luxe links since I first became aware of them last June. This weekend I believe The Sultan’s Elephant is in Calais, and then in La Havre at the end of October (26 - 29th).
The producers who brought The Sultan’s Elephant to London in June this year [...]
Sultan’s Elephant: Antwerp
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre, video on Jul 8th, 2006
Royal de Luxe’s four-day street spectacle, The Sultan’s Elephant, is in Antwerp, Belgium, this weekend. Here is a link back to my collected of links about them, to which I will be adding the following:
Official Anterp site (via)
Flickr photo pool for the Sultan’s Elephant in Antwerp
Ongoing Royal de Luxe delicious links, as I find [...]
Emmanuel Bourgeau: sculpting the Sultan’s Elephant
Posted in craft, puppetry, puppets, sculpture, street theatre on May 14th, 2006
The find of my week was the discovery that Emmanuel Bourgeau, a sculptor in Plogonnec, has a small gallery of photos of the construction and carving of the huge elephant and girl in Royal
de Luxe’s spectacle, The Sultan’s Elephant, which paraded the streets of
London last week. Isn’t the net wonderful? I’ve added this link [...]
Photos of the Sultan’s Elephant starting to come in
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on May 5th, 2006
There is a Flickr pool for photos of the Sultan’s Elephant, the Royal de Luxe street theatre spectacle happening in London right now and over this weekend. The official website gallery is also starting to post photos. The BBC coverage looks as if its going to be good too - I’m hoping to see it [...]
The Sultan’s Elephant coming to London in May
Posted in creatures, puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Apr 21st, 2006
Royal de Luxe’s wonderful spectacle, The Sultan’s Elephant, is coming to London from 4th - 7th May, brought to you by Artichoke. It will take place in the streets and public spaces of Westminster, in the
area around Horse Guards Parade in St James’s Park, St James’s,
Piccadilly, Haymarket and Trafalgar Square. There is a new [...]
Royal de Luxe: The elephant and the small giantess
Posted in automata, creatures, puppetry, puppets, sculpture, street theatre, theatre on Jun 11th, 2005
I’m blown away by the French street theatre company Royal de Luxe’s amazing street parade, ‘The Visit of the Sultan of India Atop His Time-Travelling Elephant’, which took place in Nantes last week, in honour of the centenary of Jules Verne’s death. A rocket landed just outside the cathedral in place Saint Pierre, and [...]