Cirque du Soleil

 

Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil (French: , Quebec: ; "Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the world's largest producer of contemporary circus.  It was founded on 16 June 1984 in Baie-Saint-Paul by former street performers Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix and is located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel. Les Échassiers (IPA:  "The Stilt Walkers") began as a performing troupe that toured Quebec in various forms between 1979 and 1983. Their initial financial difficulties were alleviated in 1983 by a Canada Council for the Arts grant to perform as part of the 450th anniversary celebrations of Jacques Cartier's voyage to Canada. Their first official production Le Grand Tour du Cirque du Soleil was a success in 1984, and after securing a second year of funding, Laliberté hired Guy Caron from the National Circus School to recreate it as a "proper circus". Cirque du Soleil's theatrical, character-driven approach, as well as the absence of performing animals, helped define it as the contemporary circus ("nouveau cirque") that it is today. Following financial successes and failures in the late 1980s, Franco Dragone created Nouvelle Expérience, which not only made Cirque du Soleil profitable by 1990, but also allowed it to create new shows. Cirque du Soleil grew rapidly in the 1990s and 2000s, from one show to 19 shows in over 300 cities across six continents. In 2017, the company employed 4,900 people from 50 countries and generated approximately US$1 billion in revenue.  The multiple permanent Las Vegas shows alone attract over 9,000 people per night, accounting for 5% of the city's visitors, adding to the more than 100 million people who have seen Cirque du Soleil productions worldwide.


History
Origins of 1979-1983 
Guy Laliberté organised a summer fair in Baie-Saint-Paul with the help of Daniel Gauthier and Gilles Ste-Croix in 1979, after quitting college and learning the art of fire breathing.
 Ste-Croix walked on stilts from Baie-Saint-Paul to Quebec City as part of a publicity stunt to persuade the Quebec government to help fund the production. This provided them with funding for the stilt-walker troupe Les Échassiers de Baie-Saint-Paul, who toured Quebec the following year in 1980. 
Les Échassiers was a financial failure despite being well received by audiences and critics alike. Laliberté spent the following winter in Hawaii, while Ste-Croix remained in Quebec to establish "The High-Heeled Club," a nonprofit holding company (Club des Talons Hauts)


Cirque du Soleil Shows and Experiences
Cirque du Soleil's Special Events division produced a variety of public and private events and performances from the 1990s to 2015. In April 2015, the company announced the formation of 45 Degrees, a subsidiary company of its Special Events division. The new company, led by Yasmine Khalil, continued to produce special events for Cirque du Soleil while also expanding to offer creative content outside of Cirque du Soleil.  Later, 45 Degrees merged with the main company's C-Lab (creative laboratory), continuing to produce special event performances while also designing shows with new concepts (such as the dinner-show concept in Joyà and the ice concept in Crystal). Cirque du Soleil announced in April 2019 that the 45 Degrees Cirque du Soleil announced that the 45 Degrees subsidiary would be renamed "Cirque du Soleil Events + Experiences," under which the company will now develop special events and projects.


Hours of operation: 
Tuesday 6:30-9:30PM
Wednesday 6:30–9:30PM
Thursday 6:30–9:30PM
Friday 6:30–9:30PM
Saturday 6:30–9:30PM
Sunday 6:30–9:30PM
Monday 6:30–9:30PM

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