Video: Living statues from La Rambla. Sculptures by vocation
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
I wonder what it feels like to be living statue? You stand on the square, look at the crowds of hurried, but such short-lived people flashing before you, you slowly turn green, and for decades you dream of scratching your back … Not to say that it was an idyll, but still there are people among people who want to feel like a sculpture. What is there! A living statue is a whole profession. And a real Mecca for its amateurs and professionals - La Rambla street in the Spanish city of Barcelona.
La Rambla is one of the main streets of Barcelona, around the clock many passers-by trample along it: even at night, crowds of people eager to wander around one of the most tourist centers of Europe do not run out. Despite the fact that this street is full of attractions, it successfully competes with buildings and museums Gothic Quarter make up periodically reviving statues.
As we said, living statue is a profession. Not every actor, even capable, can do it: here you need to get used to a not too human image. This is not for you to play the Stone Guest in Don Juan! First you need to figure out who you will portray - it is desirable that your character attracts attention immediately. For example - Medusa Gorgon, Madonna and Child or Alien. Then you need to ideally apply a lot of makeup on yourself. Actually, this is where it begins working day of the living statue.
And then the game begins. The actor playing the statue must simultaneously master the stone (well, or there cast-iron) plastic - and at the same time, almost constantly move a little so that passers-by (and boorish doves) do not really take you for a sculpture. The main source of income for people who successfully pass themselves off as statues of heroes and gods is donations from passers-by. You can also earn extra money at events - there is no shortage of them in Barcelona.
Special charm living statues gives the architectural look of the Old Quarter of Barcelona: next to medieval buildings from the heyday of the Kingdom of Aragon, moving sculptures look not only very interesting, but also mystical (especially in the evening). Unless, of course, they are trying to pose as a toy soldier or a Space Marine from Star Wars.
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