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The Ariane spider this Friday morning in the city center of Toulouse./ Photo DDM, Valentine Chapuis
The Minotaur, who walked for the first time in the streets of Toulouse this Friday, is not what we believe. The company La Machine which created it and organizes until Sunday a big street show in Toulouse had warned. This Friday morning, Capitol Square, under the eyes of thousands of Toulouse, a few minutes after his awakening caused by the arrival of the spider in music, the colossus of 47 tons, high as two floors, seemed to dance a few moments. Light as we would not have thought …
Hosted by seventeen people overseen by a director of maneuver, the mythological animal is so articulate and agile that it seems alive. He blinks, lifts his muzzle, moves his arms, his hands. "What's so beautiful! "Launches a spectator. Smoke comes out of his nostrils, he sniffs the air. "Ariane is here," sings a tenor on the balcony of the Capitol, expressing the thoughts of the creature. He advances. His eyes are up to the few musicians perched on a basket. It is then that he looks at them and that the limpid movements of his arms evoke a small musical trance.
Photo DDM, Frédéric Charmeux
At plane height
The Minotaur has a soul. It is also, by overseeing the device a few tens of meters away in front of the giant what François Delarozière, the director of La Machine, tries to infuse by walkie-talkie, with his advice to the members of his team. , loaded for one with one arm, the other with a paw, or eyelids …
Although lost in the labyrinthine streets of Toulouse, the Minotaur seems happy to discover these little humans who rush to see him, as we come to greet not a deity but a friend we accompany. The crowd is stunned, amused and benevolent. For this first scene, from the Capitol to the Place du Salin, the strolling takes place fluidly. Staggered, the actors of La Machine, badisted by vigilantes, municipal and national police, enforce a security perimeter around the Minotaur. And the device evolves easily among the spectators who grow as and when.
Photo DDM, Frédéric Charmeux
At the corner of the Lafayette and Alsace streets, the colossus watches the people at their window. In Esquirol, he accelerates. Quai de Tounis, he is breathing plane trees. At Salin, he is welcomed under the snow and goes back to sleep.
The Minotaur is at home here. It's a theater on its own. In the company of the spider, it occurs three times a day, in various streets and squares, until the final on the Pont-Neuf Sunday at 19:30.
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