Les mariés de la tour Eiffel Les mariés de la tour Eiffel Les mariés de la tour Eiffel ("The Wedding Party on the Eiffel Tower") is a ballet to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, choreography by Jean Börlin, set by , costumes by Jean Hugo, and music by five members of Les Six: Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre. The score calls for two narrators. The ballet was first performed in Paris in 1921. The ballet had its genesis in a commission to Jean Cocteau and Georges Auric, from Rolf de Maré of the Ballets suédois. Cocteau's original title for his
Erika Eiffel competition bow, helped her to become a world-class archer. She first encountered the Eiffel Tower in 2004, and felt an immediate attraction. She told ABC News that she and others "[...] feel an innate connection to objects. It comes perfectly normal to us to connect on various levels, emotional, spiritual and also physical for some." In April 2009, on the second anniversary of her marriage to the Eiffel Tower, she appeared on "Good Morning America" and explained how her object love empowered her. Her twenty-year relationship with the Berlin Wall inspired the musical theater production "Erika's Wall". In 2011 a