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Article: How Cirque du Soleil reinvented the circus.(Time Out!)(Main event)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2003
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Cirque du Soleil is based on a paradox. Founded in the early '80s by a former itinerant street performer, Guy Laliberte, Cirque du Soleil today is an international entertainment phenomenon with eight shows in production.
Five of them are touring North America, Europe and Japan: "Dralion," "Quidam," "Alegria," "Saltimbanco" and "Varekai." The remaining three are firmly rooted to specific performance spaces: two are located in Las Vegas, "Mystere" and "O," and one, "La Nouba," has settled in at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla.
And then there is the Cirque complex in Montreal. All of that means that Laliberte, who once spent a year traveling ...