Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel (1974) Jean Christophe Averty

Who would have thought that so much was happening on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower Newlyweds have a wedding, the couple s offspring arrive from the future and a hunter chases an ostrich. A delirious ballet and a bit psychedelic, where surrealism and biting humor mingle with delight to castigate bourgeois morals. .. Exactly a century ago, on June 18, 1921, the Théâtre des ChampsElysées hosted the creation of an iconoclastic show entitled Les Mariés de la tour Eiffel. On a wacky text by Jean Cocteau, and original music by the almost complete Group of Six (with Poulenc, Honegger, Milhaud, Tailleferre, Durey and Auric), the dancers of Rolf de Maré s Swedish Ballets evolved in sets by Irène Lagut, costumes by Jean Hugo and choreography by Jean Börlin. In 1973 JeanChristophe Averty, a brilliant pioneer of video, made an animated film with visionary images.