Cirque Du Soleil - National

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Cirque Du Soleil - National

How it all began – the history of the Cirque du Soleil “People might think that we set out to reinvent the circus and then just did it. But things did not happened that way. We were a bunch of crazy people who wanted to do things and little by little we came to a vision of what the modern circus could be.” René Dupéré music composer for 10 Cirque du Soleil shows Embryonic beginningsIn the early 1980s a troupe of performers founded by Gilles Ste-Croix took to the streets of Baie-Saint-Paul a charming village on the shores of the St. Lawrence River near Quebec City. Les Échassiers de Baie-Saint-Paul (The Stiltwalkers of Baie-Saint-Paul) – including one Guy Laliberté – juggled danced breathed fire and played music to the delight of locals and visitors.  Born in a celebration Guy Laliberté saw Quebec’s celebration of the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier’s discovery of Canada as an opportunity to take the troupe on an official province-wide tour in 1984. The show was a striking dramatic mix of circ…

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