Archive for March, 2008

  • Cirque at “Hot Docs”

    Cirque at “Hot Docs”

    From the news release: Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary festival, conference and market, will present its 15th annual edition from April 17 – 27, 2008. An outstanding selection of more than 150 documentaries from Canada and around the world will be presented to Toronto audiences and international delegates. And Cirque du Soleil is going to [...]

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  • Article: Cirque Teaches BFAs how to “Hang by Thread”

    Article: Cirque Teaches BFAs how to “Hang by Thread”

    In an article appearing in the University of Alberta student newspaper, student arts and entertainment editor Paul Blinov lets us in on a little teaching that Cirque du Soleil is doing in his province: For every wizard-like effect in a Cirque show, there’s a towering amount of technical set-up and behind-the-scenes rigging—something that the U of [...]

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  • Fascination! Issue #57 (Jan/Feb 2008) Released!

    Fascination! Issue #57 (Jan/Feb 2008) Released!

    We have a wonderfully packed issue in store for you and can’t wait to share it with you. As always, inside we have all the latest news and sightings posted to Fascination! Web throughout the months of January and February; however, this month we also have some great exclusive-to-issue features, which have not yet been [...]

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  • People are Amazing Creatures

    People are Amazing Creatures

    A few weeks back, we at "Fascination!" made a couple of purchases through online auction site Ebay that piqued our collective interests. Both were CD-R/DVD-R promo CDs from the Australian tours of Quidam and Varekai; we became inquisitive about the contents of each - were they your basic show promo CD, were they comparable to the promo CDs launched in the United States, and/or did they harbor new, undiscovered gems? So we bought them! And here's what we discovered...

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