Update 2015<\/strong> – removed and struck out some broken links<\/p>\n ——————————–<\/p>\n 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’<\/a>, which took place in Nantes last week, in honour of the centenary of Jules Verne’s death. A rocket landed<\/a> just outside the cathedral in place Saint Pierre, and from it a young giantess emerged<\/a>. Together with the Sultan’s huge 11 metre tall elephant<\/a> with a house<\/a> built into its back, she explored the streets of Nantes, taking time to eat an icecream<\/a>, ride a scooter<\/a>, take a shower<\/a> and nap<\/span>, be lifted<\/a> up onto the elephant’s trunk, and eventually to return to take off<\/a> in her rocket again.<\/p>\n I’ve been collecting links! If you are short on time go to the ones with asterisks. (edited Oct 2014 to remove defunct del-icio.us link).<\/p>\n 2007:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 2006:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Sultan’s Elephant in Antwerp (added 8 July 2006)<\/p>\n The Sultan’s Elephant in London (added 21 Apr 2006)<\/p>\n 2005:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Nantes official site (in French):<\/p>\n Other photo galleries:<\/p>\n At Flickr:<\/p>\n Blog entries:<\/p>\n Amiens:<\/p>\n About Royal de Luxe:<\/span><\/strong>About Royal de Luxe (French sites):<\/p>\n Royal de luxe at Wikipedia<\/a> (added July 2007)<\/p>\n Machines of Spectacle<\/p>\n ‘Hunters of the Giraffes’ photo galleries:<\/p>\n ‘The Giant’<\/p>\n Catamini Attraction<\/p>\n![\"Deluxe\"](\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/deluxe.jpg\" "\\"Deluxe\\"")
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technical gallery and commentary (very cool)<\/del>*<\/li>\nWinona<\/del><\/li>\nAssblaster<\/del>: elephant in transit at night<\/li>\nEpiTaF<\/del> (added 19 June 2005)<\/li>\npart 1 <\/del>(added 19 June 2005); part 2<\/del> – details of the elephant (23 June); part 3 <\/del>– this has cool video clips! (9 Nov) (thanks darth!)*<\/li>\n\n
Winona<\/del><\/li>\njujufrodo1<\/del> – I love this one<\/del><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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Eric Pouhier’s photo gallery <\/del>(including some of the puppeteers\/manipulators) added 19 June)<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/jvelephant.jpg\")
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A Short Introduction<\/del><\/li>\n1995-2002 – Karen Maldonado<\/del><\/li>\nInterview with Jean-Luc Courcoult<\/del>, director (in Spanish)<\/li>\nInterview with Jean-Luc Courcoult<\/del>, dirctor (pdf in English)<\/li>\n\n
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<\/a><\/li>\nThe small black giant <\/del>(single image, added 19 June)<\/li>\n
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![single image<\/a> by Jordi Bover<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nCatamini Attraction<\/p>\n\nHugues Allart’s gallery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPoster<\/p>\n\nRoyal de Luxe poster for sale <\/del>(image on the right)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTour dates:<\/span><\/p>\n2005:<\/p>\n\nNantes (France) – 22, 23, 24, 25 May. Debut.<\/li>\nAmiens (France) – 16, 17, 18, 19 June<\/li>\nLa Havre – mid July (didn’t happen as far as I know)<\/li>\nLondon (UK) – 8, 9, 10, 11 September. (I think this did not happen because of the London bombings)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n2006: (only London confirmed as far as I know)<\/p>\n\nLondon (UK) – 5, 6, 7, 8 May. See here for official website coverage.<\/a><\/li>\nAntwerp (Belgium) – 6, 7, 8, 9 July<\/li>\nCalais (France) – 28, 29, 30 Sept & 1 Oct<\/li>\nLa Havre (France) – 26, 27, 28, 29 Oct<\/li>\nParis, Bilbao, Marseilles, Valance possible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update: I’ve posted a lot about Royal de Luxe and it’s influence since this post. Click here to go to search links to all those posts. Update 2015 – removed and struck out some broken links ——————————– I’m blown away by the French street theatre company Royal de Luxe’s amazing street parade, ‘The Visit of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55,30,4,14,10,15,33],"tags":[271,272,273,266,268,274,275,276,277,278,279,280,1393,131,1355,1365,265,269,281,1366,267,1368],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automata","category-creatures","category-puppetry","category-puppets","category-sculpture","category-street-theatre","category-theatre","tag-antwerp","tag-barcelona","tag-chile","tag-elephant","tag-france","tag-giant-boy","tag-giant-dog","tag-giantess","tag-korea","tag-les-machines-de-lile-de-nantes","tag-london","tag-making","tag-photographs","tag-poster","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets","tag-royal-de-luxe","tag-spectacle","tag-stencil","tag-street-theatre","tag-sultans-elephant","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-1L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3492,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/3492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/143\/1501\/1024\/royal%20de%20luxe%20geant.jpg\"){kind=link}