Cirque global : Quebec's expanding circus boundaries / Louis Patrick Leroux and Charles R. Batson, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leroux, Louis Patrick, 1971- editor.

Batson, Charles R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cirque du Soleil--History.

Cirque du Soleil.

Circus--Québec (Province).

Circus.

Circus--Québec (Province)--History.

History.

Québec.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"With a billion-dollar industry centred in Montreal, the province of Quebec has established itself as a major hub for contemporary circus. Cirque du Soleil has a global presence, and troupes such as Cirque Éloize and 7 doigts de la main are state-of-the-art innovators. The National Circus School of Montreal - the only state-funded elite training facility in North America - is an influential leader in artistry and technique. Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil's Cirque du Monde supports arts for social change on many continents and is renowned for its social-circus training and research. Cirque Global is the first book-length study of this new variety of circus and its international impact. The contributors offer critical perspectives on this rapidly developing art form and its aesthetics, ethics, business practices, pedagogical implications, and discursive significations. Essays explore creative, entrepreneurial, and cultural forces that are shaping Quebec's dynamic nouveau cirque. Lavishly illustrated with photographs from circus performances, the volume showcases Quebec circus's hybrid forms, which have merged the ethos and aesthetics of European circuses with American commercial and industrial creativity. Cirque Global is the definitive study of the phenomenon of Quebec circus and is an important model for future research on contemporary circus."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

I Quebec on Planet Circus

1 The Québécois Circus in the Concert of Nations: Exchange and Transversality / Pascal Jacob Jacob, Pascal, Tiffany Templeton Templeton, Tiffany 25

2 A Tale of Origins: Deconstructing North American "Cirque" Where Québécois and American Circus Cultures Meet / Lotus Patrick Leroux Leroux, Lotus Patrick 36

3 Are Quebec Circuses of Foreign Origin? / Julie Boudreault Boudreault, Julie, Tania Grant Grant, Tania 55

II Cirque Brands

4 Performance Services: The Promises of Cirque du Soleil / Erin Hurley Hurley, Erin 71

5 The Last Man in Quebec: Between Circus and Religion / Sylvain Lavoie Lavoie, Sylvain, Caitlin Stall-Paquet Stall-Paquet, Caitlin 79

6 Circus and Gentrification / Susan Bennett Bennett, Susan 85

III Dramaturgy and Aesthetics

7 Les 7 doigts de la main and Their Cirque: Origins, Resistances, Intimacies / Charles R. Batson Batson, Charles R. 99

8 The Multiple Bodies of Cirque du Soleil / Erin Hurley Hurley, Erin 122

9 "Somewhere between Science and Legend": Images of Indigeneity in Robert Lepage and Cirque du SoleiPs Totem / Karen Fricker Fricker, Karen 140

IV Circus Problematized

10 Creativity's Tug-of-War between Artists and Managers: A Mediator's Perspective on the Case of Cirque du Solel's Complexe Cirque" / Isabelle Mahy Mahy, Isabelle 161

11 A Las Vegas of the North? The Architectural Brutalism of Cirque du Soleil / Simon Harel Harel, Simon, Michelle Wong Wong, Michelle 181

12 The Chinese Connection: The Transnational Origins of Quebecois Circus Arts / Tracy Y. Zhang Zhang, Tracy Y. 202

V Affecting Change

13 Creativity and Place in the Evolution of a Cultural Industry: The Case of Cirque du Soleil / Deborah Leslie Leslie, Deborah, Norma M. Rantisi Rantisi, Norma M. 223

14 Introducing Decision Training into an Elite Circus Arts Training Program / Sylvain Lafortune Lafortune, Sylvain, Jon Burtt Burtt, Jon, Patrice Aubertin Aubertin, Patrice 240

15 Singular Bodies, Collective Dreams: Socially Engaged Circus Arts and the "Quebec Spring" / Jennifer Beth Spiegel Spiegel, Jennifer Beth 266.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Cirque global.

ISBN:

9780773546721

0773546723

9780773546738

0773546731

OCLC:

920018114