The Latest Issues of Fascination! Newsletter
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Issue #185: JUN 2019
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Jean David’s “Quel Cirque”
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Jean David’s Quel Cirque, Part 5 of 12: “Persuasion”
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Jean David’s Quel Cirque, Part 4 of 12: “O, Canada!”
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Jean David’s Quel Cirque, Part 3 of 12: “What! No Animals?”
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Jean David’s Quel Cirque, Part 2 of 12: “The Appointment”
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Jean David’s Quel Cirque, Part 1 of 12: “The Early Years”
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Crystal Archive
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Meet Crystal’s Zabato Bebe
When Zabato Bebe was a little boy, performers on stage, who were capable of mesmerizing the audience with their tricks, their looks, and their ability to tell a story, fascinated him. Add to the mix a pair of ice skates and a father who was a dancer, and you have all the ingredients needed to make Bebe a star in his own right. -
Director Fabrice Lemire talks Cirque du Soleil’s CRYSTAL
Artistic director Fabrice Lemire takes on the ice in Cirque du Soleil’s CRYSTAL. The show features an international cast of figure, extreme and freestyle skaters, acrobats, musicians, and comic characters. This is Cirque du Soleil’s first ever ice show and Lemire talks about the unique challenges of bringing acrobatics and skating together. -
Q&A w/CRYSTAL’s Scott Smith
Figure skating and acrobatics are hard enough. Combining the two might sound impossible, but for Scott Smith, it was a perfect fit. "I was a competitive skater for 20 years. In a way I've been training for this all of my life," Smith told the Deseret News. -
Meet CRYSTAL’s Madeline Stammen
Illinois native Madeline Stammen, 24, began her competitive career at the age of 8. She excelled at ice dancing and freestyle skating at a highly competitive level until she was 18 years old. After competition, Stammen was hired for her first professional show on the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines performing in shows on the ship’s ice rinks. -
“CRYSTAL: Colder Than You Might Like”
This being Cirque’s first attempt at a show on a frozen ice surface, we were curious – which side would prevail, the Cirque side or the ice show side? -
Kevin Lapierre: A New Life On Ice
The road to blade life satisfaction can take many turns, one of which has Kevin Lapierre touring across North America — and soon the world — in support of the opportunity he found to perform stunts on ice for Cirque Du Soleil‘s ice skating and gymnastics showcase, “Crystal.” -
Crystal Brings Skater Shawn Sawyer Full Circle
Growing up in Canada, Shawn Sawyer said it was practically in his blood to put on a pair of skates as a child. Sawyer liked skating fast and skating alongside his brother on the hockey team their father coached, but quickly realized that scoring goals and being part of a team didn’t thrill him. Knowing how much Sawyer liked coming to the ice rink, Sawyer’s dad suggested he give figure skating a shot. -
“Melding Circus Arts and Ice Sports”
In CRYSTAL, Cirque explores the very essence of skating, assessing the artistic limits of ice for the first time in the company’s history, asking how they can bring their signature style of acrobatics into yet uncharted territory. -
Review of CRYSTAL’s Gala Premiere in Montreal!
The ice breaks early in Crystal, the new Cirque du Soleil show, as the title character quite literally falls through the ice on a frozen lake and enters a parallel universe. And the Cirque breaks the ice figuratively as well, scoring big time with its very first show on an NHL-sized ice surface. -
Local artist paints CRYSTAL mural to promote show in Topeka
Myer has put about 60 hours toward her project — a towering 30-foot by 12-foot mural along the side of Kaw River Rustics in the NOTO Arts District (901 N Kansas Ave in North Topeka). The wall has been transformed into a sparkling skyline to promote Cirque du Soleil Crystal, an ice skating and acrobatics show coming Jan. 24-28 to the Kansas Expocentre. -
Montreal Gazette: “Crystal puts Cirque du Soleil on ice”
Crystal, which is set to be performed at the Bell Centre from Dec. 20 to 31, has many familiar elements from the Cirque catalogue, including juggling, swinging trapeze, pole numbers and eye-catching aerial numbers. But there’s no escaping the main difference between Crystal and every other Cirque show: this one takes place on an NHL-sized rink. -
Worcester, MA Gives CRYSTAL Four Stars!
Cirque is synonymous with lavish costumes, spectacle and amazing acrobatics blended with dance and other media. But with Crystal, the organization has found way to maintain that reputation while establishing a more solid footing in storytelling as concept performance art ... plus blending in some seriously impressive skating, to boot. -
Cirque du Soleil Hits the Ice
Dazzling crowds since 1984, Cirque Du Soleil creates unique theatrical productions. With their newest show, Crystal, the group brings an entirely new type of experience to Worcester’s DCU Center, 50 Foster St., Thursday–Sunday, Dec. 7-10. This time, the high-flying entertainment hits the ice. -
The Montreal Gazette on CRYSTAL
Just how different is Crystal from other Cirque du Soleil shows? Well, even some of the technicians have to wear skates on the latest Cirque creation. It is the Cirque’s first ice show, and that has added a whole new dimension to the job description of everyone working on this production, from the technicians to the performers to the costume designers. -
Cirque Finds the Coolest Setting for CRYSTAL?
Three times in her life, Madeline Stammen has sat down at her computer and pressed “send” on a flurry of college applications, convinced that perhaps it was time to put her ice skating dreams on hold and instead pursue a scholarly degree. And three times, the phone rang, and she was off to another adventure.