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Royal de Luxe is a French mechanical marionette street theatre company which specialises in giant puppets. They were founded in 1979 in Aix-en-Provence [ 1 ] by Jean-Luc Courcoult. After some years based in Toulouse , the company moved to Nantes in 1989.
A giant puppet is a puppet which is tall enough to be easily visible to a street crowd while being manipulated by puppeteers, on the same level. It is therefore most suitable for processions , street theatre and performance art , although some large theatrical animations can be used for the same purpose.
The Sultan's Elephant was a show created by the Royal de Luxe theatre company, involving a huge moving mechanical elephant, a giant marionette of a girl and other associated public art installations. In French it was called La visite du sultan des Indes sur son éléphant à voyager dans le temps (literally, "Visit from the Sultan of the Indies ...
The earliest record of a processional giant in England is a reference from 1570 to the Salisbury Giant who processed on the eve of St John the Baptist's Day, or Midsummer's Day. The Salisbury Giant, a depiction of Saint Christopher , is believed by some to date to the 1400s, and was owned by the Tailor's Guild before being purchased by the ...
The Machines of the Isle of Nantes (French: Les Machines de l'île) is an artistic, touristic and cultural project based in Nantes, France.The project is based in the old covered buildings of the former shipyards in Nantes that were at one time used for ship construction (les nefs), and later used as business sites.
The 3.5m puppet became an international symbol of human rights after she journeyed 8,000km from the Turkish-Syrian border to Manchester in 2021. Giant puppet Little Amal leads Brighton walk Skip ...
The Dragon Dance Theatre is a collective theatre and giant puppet company founded in Vermont, USA, in 1976. The company has created and produced original theatre productions and the Pan-American Puppetry Arts Institute in Mexico, Nicaragua, Argentina, Peru, the US, France and Finland.
A nearly complete and intact dinosaur skeleton has been excavated in France. The specimen is a Titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs of its time. 70 million-year-old giant dinosaur skeleton ...