At the
start of the eighties, some young public entertainers
create the high heels Club.
Most of them walk on
stilts - a habit they got their name from - but
there are also fire blowers, jugglers... It happens
in Quebec, an area which doesn't have any circus
tradition yet.
These artists then decide to set
up a celebration in order to gather every one of
them and to be able to swap their ideas and their
talent.
They lastly decided to achieve every
show in the same big top. And in 1984, during the
450th year celebration of the arrival of Jacques
Cartier in Canada, the Cirque du Soleil is born. |
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It travels around Quebec while offering
a theatrical show which mixes the arts of the circus
and the street, and features original music, light effects
and costumes. It's slightly different from the traditional
circus, as the nonattendance of animals in the shows
for example.
In 1986, the circus had previously traveled further:
it went in Ontario and Vancouver. The subsequent year,
the circus goes to California. And the good reaction
of the public will egg on him to do a tour in the United
States before long after.
The big top, which could gather 800 people,
also rise bigger: in 1990, 2500 people could seat in
it. The Cirque du Soleil now goes to Europe and offers
new shows: New Experience and reinvented Circus.
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The
Cirque du Soleil conducts several different shows
throughout the world. In 1992, Fascination was
first introduced in Japan.
New
Experience is such a hit in Las Vegas that the
Cirque du Soleil decides to settle there the
next year. Other shows are born: Mystery, Saltimbanco
and, to rejoice the tenth anniversary of the
circus, Alegria.
In 1996,
the circus created its ninth magic: Quidam.
The
1998 autumn saw the spirit of a new everlasting
show in Las Vegas, on a marine scene, and another
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park was thus made the arena of enjoyment. Disney discount
tickets were there to increase the craze. All these
new findings are created in Montréal, in the
Studio.
In
this 14.000 square meters building, there's practice
rooms, a beautification workshop, a costume workshop.
The reason of the circus is to get past the customary
rules and to defy the realism restrictions. The goal
was to show a dream that would rejuvenate the circus
world to make it brand new.
This brand new circus is due to the fact
that the country had no fun fair custom at all, so the
ancestries are different from the conservative ones,
with some elements dating back to the middle Ages.
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