March 05, 2010
By: Richasi
Category: News Articles
Dewayne Bevel, Theme Park Ranger for the Orlando Sentinel, had a chance recently to sit down with Anthony Gatto, La Nouba’s newest act.
“You can say that I’m a technical numbers juggler, which means I just do a lot of stuff,” he says. “I do routines with a lot of things in the air. A typical juggling act might start with three balls, and I start with five balls and a ball bouncing on my head, and build up from there.”
He simultaneously engages the audience, but that’s another challenge.
“Jugglers, we spend the entire act looking away from them. You can only see our chin,” he says.
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{ SOURCE: Orlando Sentinel }
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February 23, 2010
By: Richasi
Category: News Articles
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February 19, 2010
By: Richasi
Category: News Articles
Steve Fress of Portfolio.com takes an interesting look at Cirque du Soleil’s recent activities – its triumphs and its “failures” – and places them in perspective. From the article:
For the first time, Cirque has a bona fide dud of a show in Las Vegas, attendance is underwhelming for its production in Macau, and critics are already sharpening their knives over two new shows due to open
this month, one in New York and another in Vegas. A development deal with Dubai World isn’t playing out as expected largely because Dubai World’s development activities have been, uh, complicated by its financial implosion.
Yet somehow—per the company’s name—it’s always sunny inside the office at Cirque’s international headquarters of cheerful Cirque CEO Daniel Lamarre. Not only is he undeterred by setbacks that he’s largely unwilling to acknowledge as setbacks, but he is laying plans for even more rapid growth for the company that could make the brand as ubiquitous as, say, Disney on Ice.
By the summer of 2011, the company expects to have opened resident shows for two of the world’s most famous venues, Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan and the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, and still the machine in Montreal will continue to churn at high gear.
“I can easily see Cirque developing two to three new shows a year,” said Lamarre, brought in as chief operations officer in 2001 by owner Guy Laliberte after helming Canada’s top TV network with the express mission of accelerating the company’s growth. “To produce three shows a year, it means I have to have nine shows in the making. Right now I’ve got 2010, 2011, and 2012 planned out.”
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{ SOURCE: Portfolio.com }
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February 19, 2010
By: Richasi
Category: News Articles
Mike Weatherford of the Las Vegas Review Journal stepped into the Aria theater recently to preview Cirque du Soleil’s VIVA ELVIS and here’s a little of what he has to about the production…
The voice is familiar. The music? Not always.
You won’t hear much meddling with the lean rockabilly sound of “Mystery Train.” But “Jailhouse Rock” sidesteps into hip-hop and “Got A Lot O’ Livin’ to Do!” ventures into Zeppelin-esque guitar rock. The creators of “Viva Elvis” do not deny taking inspiration from a popular remix of “A Little Less Conversation,” which caught on via a Nike ad after the original resurfaced in the “Ocean’s Eleven” remake.
Since “Viva” is also biographical, the creative team decided a few songs could take an outside perspective, voiced by the four live female singers. Being freed from having to match time or key signatures of the records opened the door to dramatic reinterpretation: “King Creole” goes reggae; “One Night With You” gets a wispy Norah Jones feel, with Presley coming in as a ghostly backing vocal.
But preview audiences reminded the directors why Elvis hits are seldom covered. He was the show, and the songs lose traction without him.
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{ SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal }
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February 17, 2010
By: Richasi
Category: News Articles
Cirque du Soleil released information pertaining to Cirque2010 yesterday through it’s Facebook page. Check it out!
Cirque du Soleil is thrilled to introduce the creation team for its next touring show, premiering in Montreal next spring, followed by Quebec City.
Directed by Robert Lepage, Cirque 2010 (working title) is a show about creation myths and the evolution of the human species. This will mark Robert Lepage’s second collaboration with Cirque du Soleil, following KÀ at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, which has just celebrated its fifth anniversary. Including Robert Lepage, the Cirque 2010 team consists of 13 creators under the artistic guidance of Guy Laliberté and Gilles
Ste-Croix:
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