The Berlin Reunion

You’ve enchanted Berlin! In the first four days of October nearly two million people celebrated »The Berlin Reunion« with the BIG GIANT and the LITTLE GIANTESS. Sunday the GIANTS’ tale ended with their celebratory parade through the government quarter. When the LITTLE GIANTESS and the DEEP SEE DIVER left Berlin by boat, hundreds of thousends said Good bye to the two fascinating GIANTS from the waterfront between Moltkebrücke and Elsenbrücke …

For almost thirty years Royal de Luxe under the artistic direction of their founder Jean Luc Courcoult have been synonymous with spectacular theatrical events in cities all over the world. In recent years they have developed several fantastical theatre events with enormous models of both humans and animals, controlled by up to 40 performers, which can move in an unbelievably lifelike manner. The Sultan’s Elephant, a four day spectacle in London 2006, consequently galvanised much public enthusiasm, and Le Rhinocéros caché transformed the city of Santiago, Chile, 2007 into a gigantic street theatre festival. Their latest coup, La Révolte des Mannequins for spielzeit’europa 08|09, was a type of cartoon strip acted out in ten shop windows of Berlin’s KaDeWe department store