Cirque du Soleil: Difference between revisions

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Cirque Du Soleil (French for "Circus of the Sun") is a Montreal-based company. Initially mostly made up of street performers and/or acrobats, and organized by Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix, its first troupe toured in 1984 (as part of the 450th anniversary celebrations of the discovery of Canada by the French). It was successful enough that a second tour ran in 1986, and a third, [[Le Cirque Reinvente|''Le Cirque Réinventé'']] ("Circus Reinvented") the year after that.

'''If you want to know about a specific show and its tropes, look to the [[Cirque Du Soleil Index]].'''

 

* [[All There in the Manual]] - The aforementioned themes, plots, and significance of various characters of many of the above shows are not openly spelled out in the shows themselves, but in the souvenir programs and at the official website. See [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]] below.

* [[Ambiguous Gender]] - Many of the costumes and makeup evoke this on purpose to make the performers/characters seem more androgynous.