Circus!
So last night we wandered over to La Defense to watch some of the acts in the Street Circus Festival. This is a three day festival put on by - the city? the county? - and so it's free. Public art, I guess, which I'm always a fan of. There will be a son-et-lumiere show later in September that I am definitely looking forward to!
The plaza was crowded, but not too bad. We saw a really fun marching / funk / hip-hop band first. This is street performance -- I actually saw these guys setting up one day in front of the Paris Opera, but we were in a hurry, so I didn't realize I should hang around.
The we wandered around a bit, and once it was dark, we saw this converted bus / high wire / pyrotechnic act, which indeed involved a lot of pyrotechnics -- the fire department guys were hanging around the edges of the crowd.
I've always been a fan of public art -- I even like the notorious Chevy on a Stick. And when I heard about the giant chrome tyrannosaurus rex (thanks W.!), I had to go hunt it down. (It's actually smaller than the picture makes it look, but it's still pretty darned cool!)
But I'd never seen performances included in public art before -- it's cool, and I hope to see a LOT more.
The plaza was crowded, but not too bad. We saw a really fun marching / funk / hip-hop band first. This is street performance -- I actually saw these guys setting up one day in front of the Paris Opera, but we were in a hurry, so I didn't realize I should hang around.
The we wandered around a bit, and once it was dark, we saw this converted bus / high wire / pyrotechnic act, which indeed involved a lot of pyrotechnics -- the fire department guys were hanging around the edges of the crowd.
I've always been a fan of public art -- I even like the notorious Chevy on a Stick. And when I heard about the giant chrome tyrannosaurus rex (thanks W.!), I had to go hunt it down. (It's actually smaller than the picture makes it look, but it's still pretty darned cool!)
But I'd never seen performances included in public art before -- it's cool, and I hope to see a LOT more.