{"id":7410,"date":"2016-04-21T00:07:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T07:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7410"},"modified":"2016-04-14T11:30:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T18:30:57","slug":"partys-gone-out-of-bounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/21\/partys-gone-out-of-bounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Party’s Gone Out Of Bounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Partying Underground in Paris\u2019s Secret Corners<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0SARA LIEBERMAN<\/p>\n

\"parisu\"Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

PARIS \u2014 Inside an abandoned seven-floor, 70-room house near the Arc de Triomphe, more than 650 revelers in floor-length gowns, curly white wigs and feathered masks gathered on a Friday night in January.<\/p>\n

A nearly nude woman with a giant bouffant and flower-adorned underwear performed a sultry dance with pink wings, while a contortionist spouted French obscenities. At the bottom of a sweeping grand staircase, a four-piece band performed while couples waltzed.<\/p>\n

For five years, a renegade group known as\u00a0We Are the Oracle<\/a>\u00a0has been hosting such semi-secret parties in elusive sites throughout\u00a0Paris<\/a>, including the catacombs, empty railway tracks and abandoned chateaus. And not always legally.<\/p>\n

What began as a word-of-mouth soir\u00e9e among the city\u2019s elite influencers has evolved into seasonal theme parties that combine the mystique of \u201cEyes Wide Shut\u201d with the energy of all-night raves and the theatrics of \u201cSleep No More.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the invitation for the masquerade ball was unveiled last October, through a\u00a0video<\/a>\u00a0that promised an epic party called \u201cVenise Sous Paris\u201d (or \u201cVenice Under Paris\u201d), it created intense intrigue. \u201cOK, get your plane ticket!\u201d proclaimed Marina Smith of Nova Scotia, who shared the invitation on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Over two weekends in January, 2,800 attendees from as far away as Australia and the United States paid 61.50 euros (around $70) to dress like Venetian noblesse, sip Champagne and dance like Casanova until 2 a.m.<\/p>\n

The next event is called\u00a0\u201cThe Soviet Factory,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and it is scheduled to take place April 29 and 30 at a location that will be revealed a day before the party. Some 2,000 guests are expected to adhere to a Communist-chic dress code.<\/p>\n

The parties were dreamed up by Foulques Jubert, 29, a former business student who spent a year attending 24 festivals in 13 countries (including\u00a0Burning Man<\/a>\u00a0in Nevada and\u00a0Tomorrowland<\/a>\u00a0in Belgium) to learn how to bring similar spectacles to Paris.<\/p>\n

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from The New York Times Partying Underground in Paris\u2019s Secret Corners By\u00a0SARA LIEBERMAN Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times\u00a0 PARIS \u2014 Inside an abandoned seven-floor, 70-room house near the Arc de Triomphe, more than 650 revelers in floor-length gowns, curly white wigs and feathered masks gathered on a Friday night in January. A nearly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}