Advantages: Fantastic performers and players Disadvantages: None really
The cirque du soliel was "born" in 1984 from a group of public entertainers in Quebec Canada, and within ten years were taking their "reinvention of the circus" around the globe, with six shows on permanent tour and two based in the USA ( one in Vegas, and one in Disneyworld Florida)
There are no animals, stupid clowns or any of the associated circus tomfoolery I knew as a child, this has been replaced by a show encompassing artistic players, focussing ... ...or Chinese, it seems that cirque trawl the world for the best acts and then recruit them.
Quidam is a show directed by Franco Dragone, revolving around an "everychild" living with self absorbed parents, who is whisked away to a surreal world were cirques' artists and acrobats literally take flight, there tools are oversized flying rings, an open steel wheel large enough for a man to stand in, skatebords, ropes, beautiful strength and balance acts, ...
jimspurs 28.02.2006
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