Un an dans la peau de Marie-Antoinette

Vous n'allez pas le croire ! Une gentille Américaine du Maitland a décidé de passer un an dans la peau de Marie-Antoinette. Pourquoi ?
Juste comme ça... La reine Marie-Antoinette est dans son milieu prolétaire synonyme d'arrogance donc elle a décidé d'entrer dans ses chaussures pour attirer l'attention.
Et, vous allez le voir, elle ne fait pas les choses à moitié !



Oui, ce sont des haltères.
Vous en doutez ?



Et ça, oui...



C'est bien un rameur.
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Seven months into her year as Marie Antoinette, Maitland’s Helen Hopcroft is starting to feel the heat.

“You turn into survival mode,” she said. “When the temperature gets high you have to ask yourself if five petticoats and a bumpad is really worth it.

“I’ve only got one wig and it’s starting to look like a mangy Pekingese.”

And with 40-degree days set to hit Maitland this week, Ms Hopcroft has just one plan to survive the heat.

“I think I’ll stay home and cuddle the air-conditioner,” she said.



Ms Hopcroft began the My Year as a Fairy Tale project on May 1 – a year dressed as last Queen of France before the French Revolution, who the phrase “let them eat cake” has been famously attributed to.

Despite the hot days ahead, Ms Hopcroft is committed to her craft, with the aim of using the costume to promote Maitland as a creative city. It seems to be working.

“There’s certainly been a number of creative projects pop up this year,” she said.



The artist-run Inside Out exhibition currently on display at Rutherford and East Maitland Libraries, cafe poetry program Verses, portable puppet show Frank’s Fantastic Fairy Tale Theatre which will feature in The Levee next year and an upcoming micro-film festival are several examples of Maitland’s thriving cultural scene she mentioned.

Vous lirez la suite des aventures de Ms Hopcroft en atours XVIIIe sur cette page.
http://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/story/5115638/marie-let-them-eat-icy-poles/#slide=3

Bien à vous

madame antoine

Nous relèverons le rapport tout particulier que le Nouveau Monde établit entre la reine Marie-Antoinette et la pratique des sports.
https://maria-antonia.forumactif.com/t7747-marie-antoinette-a-la-salle-de-sport

L'aventure se termine

Helen Hopcroft prepares to finish year as Marie Antoinette

After 11 months living as Marie Antoinette, Helen Hopcroft doesn’t know what her next project will be, but she does have a one thing in mind.

“People keep on asking me what I’m going to do next, and I think I’ll probably spend a week sitting on the sofa in grey tracksuit pants watching Rocky videos,” she said with a laugh.

The Maitland woman has “mixed feelings” about her Year as a Fairytale project coming to an end on April 30.

“I’m feeling quite ambivalent,” she said. “As much as I want to finish the project, I think I’ll miss this persona enormously.

Read more: Marie Antoinette’s year has begun
Marie, let them eat icy poles
“I’m looking forward to getting back into 21st century clothing. But yeah, I’ve got no idea what I’m going to wear.

“I was looking through my clothes and it’s kind of a weird feeling – it’s like sorting through a dead person’s wardrobe.

“I feel like I’ve lost one self and I don’t know which one will emerge in its place.”

Ms Hopcroft decided to dress as the last Queen of France every day for a year as a way of promoting Maitland as a cultural city, and she thinks it has worked.

“Most people think it’s as weird as hell, but strangely effective,” she said. “I mean you can’t ignore it.”

“It’s been a nice way of grabbing attention for Maitland and pivoting the conversation towards creativity.”

As well as helping to achieve goals for Maitland, Ms Hopcroft said the project had changed her.

“Physically it’s toughened me up, it’s quite an endurance event,’ she said. “I take a bottle of water with me everywhere so I’m constantly in survival mode.





“But psychologically, you know how there is two ways you can be powerful, you can either go around in a suit of armour and ignore nasty things, or you can just not care – I’ve hit the second. That’s the good thing about going around dressed like this, I just don’t give a stuff about people’s reactions.”

But would she do it again?

“Not in my life,” she said. “I want to thank everybody that has supported the project, because obviously it is a bit confronting having to deal with me when I’m like this.

“I would like to do some other large scale performance event that’s linked towards promoting Maitland as a creative city, but I don’t know what that’s going to look like yet.

“I was actually thinking of making my house into a giant artwork, because I’ve made my body into a tourist attraction, why not the house?”
http://www.theherald.com.au/

En réalité, il s'agit d'une expérience dans la peau d'une femme en grande robe à paniers. Mais le nom de Marie-Antoinette est plus racoleur.

Farewell to Marie queen of the arts




After 11 months living as Marie Antoinette, Helen Hopcroft doesn’t know what her next project will be, but she does have a one thing in mind.

“People keep on asking me what I’m going to do next, and I think I’ll probably spend a week sitting on the sofa in grey tracksuit pants watching Rocky videos,” she said with a laugh.

The Maitland woman has “mixed feelings” about her Year as a Fairytale project coming to an end on April 30.

“I’m feeling quite ambivalent,” she said. “As much as I want to finish the project, I think I’ll miss this persona enormously.

“I’m looking forward to getting back into 21st century clothing. But yeah, I’ve got no idea what I’m going to wear.

Ms Hopcroft decided to dress as the last Queen of France every day for a year as a way of promoting Maitland as a cultural city, and she thinks it has worked.

“Most people think it’s as weird as hell, but strangely effective,” she said.

“I mean you can’t ignore it.”
https://www.newcastlestar.com.au/story/5339415/farewell-to-marie-queen-of-the-arts/