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Article: Picked off the streets.(Features)
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- Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2004
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CIRQUE du Soleil's success story is a truly amazing one.
It begins back in 1982 in Baie-SaintPaul, Quebec, an area of the Canadian city well-known for attracting artists and tourists.
A group of street performers called the Club des Talons Hauts - the High Heels Club - were so delighted with the reception they received for their stiltwalking, juggling and fire-eating skills, that they decided to launch an entertainers' ...