Giant Marionettes Take Over Montreal
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Marionettes as tall as 5 storey houses strolled along the streets of Montreal during the city’s 375th birthday on May 17th, 2017. The performance began in Jeanne-Mance Park with the Little Girl-Giant waking up in front of hundreds of people and continued for 3 days. “They not only walk the city, they create scenes which allow them to tell their stories,” Martin Bolduc, line producer of Montreal’s 375th anniversary told CBC News. The marionettes’ moves were the results of a blend of mechanics, hydraulics, and people operating strings. Each marionette took a team of about 30 people to manage and walked at an average speed of 1.4 miles per hour.
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Marionettes as tall as 5 storey houses strolled along the streets of Montreal during the city’s 375th birthday on May 17th, 2017. The performance began in Jeanne-Mance Park with the Little Girl-Giant waking up in front of hundreds of people and continued for 3 days. “They not only walk the city, they create scenes which allow them to tell their stories,” Martin Bolduc, line producer of Montreal’s 375th anniversary told CBC News. The marionettes’ moves were the results of a blend of mechanics, hydraulics, and people operating strings. Each marionette took a team of about 30 people to manage and walked at an average speed of 1.4 miles per hour.
This Troupe is named La Compagnie Royal Delux. It's a fantastic show! It's a univers based on Gulliver's travel (the first marionnette was Gulliver himself) and the humans (us and the puppetmasters) are supposed to be the Lilliputians. They avec a little black boy, a little asian girl, an elephant.... maybe more now. But they also playing with the town.
I discovered them as a little girl with a huge show that had cracked the road and a fork planted in a car. It was trully awesom. I was just in one of the book my daddy used to read me. They coming again in my home town in few weeks to celebrate our 500 years. I'm so glad my son will discover them now! PA283318-5...15f3f6.jpg 
Thank you for sharing the info, I live in Singapore (part of Asia). I am so blown away by this video and would love to see the show up and person. This is going into my bucket list.
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This Troupe is named La Compagnie Royal Delux. It's a fantastic show! It's a univers based on Gulliver's travel (the first marionnette was Gulliver himself) and the humans (us and the puppetmasters) are supposed to be the Lilliputians. They avec a little black boy, a little asian girl, an elephant.... maybe more now. But they also playing with the town.
I discovered them as a little girl with a huge show that had cracked the road and a fork planted in a car. It was trully awesom. I was just in one of the book my daddy used to read me. They coming again in my home town in few weeks to celebrate our 500 years. I'm so glad my son will discover them now! PA283318-5...15f3f6.jpg
Thank you for sharing the info, I live in Singapore (part of Asia). I am so blown away by this video and would love to see the show up and person. This is going into my bucket list.
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