inspiring performances

i love performances that take me out of my ordinary mind-set and remind me life is just a game. and these performance pieces that have that exact effect.

The Sultan's Elephant by Royal de Luxe
Royal de Luxe is a street theater group that started in 1979 by Jean Luc Courcoult in France. They have created impressive productions with enormous mechanical marionettes as bigh as 11 meters high that move through the streets of various cities they have performed in.
The Sultan's Elephant was first performed in May 2005 in Nantes and Amiens to commemorate the centenary of Jules Verne's death and was commisioned by these cities. In 2006 it was performed in London.
When speaking about his work, Jean Luc Courcoult explains, "the aim is to place dream in people’s life", and this is exactly what he achieves. For a period of four days, a giant girl and an elephant toured the streets of London. The puppets were held up by cranes which were controlled by men dressed in red velvet uniforms of royal servants. This was a wonderful performance, a free spectacle that was enjoyed by roughly a million people and for four days it transformed the city into a fairy tale of which the spectators were all a part of.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qBXr15K2uSc