Giant spider and minotaur on the streets of toulouse
Last week, Toulouse turned into a large open-air theater. From 1 to 4 November, huge spiders and a minotaur walked along its streets. Each animatronic was controlled by more than a dozen operators. It was supposed that about 200 thousand people would watch the show, but the real number of viewers turned out to be three times more. Under the cut - photos and videos from the performance, organized by the French theater group La Machine.
The show “The Guardian of the Temple” rethinks the Greek myth of Ariadne. The streets of the city replaced the labyrinth, in the center of which the bloodthirsty minotaur was waiting for the unfortunate. The plot turned out a bit strange:
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It seems the spider has become a new Ariad
During the archaeological excavations of 1993, remains of an ancient temple were found on Eskirol Square. An Etruscan inscription was carved on one of its stones. After 25 years of decoding, it became clear that this is the prophecy of the Sibyl:
“Toulouse, marked with gold, fire, blood and water, will see that its temple will disappear, but its keeper, buried under the ground, will remain. After the day when the temple is reopened, its keeper will need fifty equinoxes to return to life. Defender of the city, he will be reborn in the waters of the river under the new Blue Moon. As he wanders in search of the temple lost in the heart of the Labyrinth, the changed Ariadne will guide him to his new home. ”
“Toulouse, marked with gold, fire, blood and water, will see that its temple will disappear, but its keeper, buried under the ground, will remain. After the day when the temple is reopened, its keeper will need fifty equinoxes to return to life. Defender of the city, he will be reborn in the waters of the river under the new Blue Moon. As he wanders in search of the temple lost in the heart of the Labyrinth, the changed Ariadne will guide him to his new home. ”
But who needs a thoughtful plot, when a 13-meter spider and a 14-meter minotaur weighing 47 tons pass by?
On the evening of November 1, the spider descended from the roof of Hôtel-Dieu. Photo source
The eyes of the minotaur move, and steam comes out of the nostrils.
November 2, Capitoline Square
Preparation process:
And a fragment of the performance accompanied by live music:
The show was a spectacular way to announce the opening of the “La Halle de La Machine” in Toulouse. Now the spider and the minotaur should already move there as exhibits. It is known that the mayor of Toulouse invested more than 14 million euros in the opening of the hall itself, 2.5 million in the creation of a minotaur and another 2 million in organizing and holding the show.
Most likely, many remembered that they had already seen such spiders. And this is not surprising: if the minotaur was created specifically for the show in Toulouse, the La Machine spider was first brought to the streets in 2008.
2008, Liverpool
2009, spiders on the 150th anniversary of the port of Yokohama
2011, Reims Cathedral is 800 years old, and a spider climbs its walls
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/429268/
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