Cirque du Soleil: 20 Years Under the Sun.Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (French for "Circus of the Sun") is an entertainment empire based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Daniel Gauthier. : 20 Years Under the Sun By Tony Babinski. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of : Abrams, 2004. 359 pages. Hardcover, $50. Delivering a unique blend of dance, acrobatics acrobatics Art of jumping, tumbling, and balancing. The art is of ancient origin; acrobats performed leaps, somersaults, and vaults at Egyptian and Greek events. Acrobatic feats were featured in the commedia dell'arte theatre in Europe and in jingxi (“Peking , and razzle-dazzle stagecraft stage·craft n. Skill in the techniques and devices of the theater. stagecraft the art or skill of producing or staging plays. See also: Drama Noun 1. , the Montreal-based company has virtually defined the New Age circus for this generation. What began as a group of shaggy street performers and itinerant stilt-walkers now commands huge audiences and premium prices in Las Vegas. The path to glory was occasionally rocky--the team gambled its entire resources traveling to Los Angeles for its United States debut in 1987--but the company's fresh approach to the familiar won the attention of the Disney Company, and the blue and yellow striped tents soon became an omnipresent attraction on the American entertainment scene. This sumptuously illustrated, elegantly designed history of the organization's first two decades is a bit short on text, but the book abounds in visual allure. Fans of the Cirque will relish every page. --ALLAN ULRICH |
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