Cirque Global
Quebec's Expanding Circus Boundaries
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2016
396 pages
978-0-7735-9870-6 (ISBN)
Description
Essays examine the innovative and influential circus scene as a creative, entrepreneurial, and cultural force that spans the globe.
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Persons
Louis Patrick Leroux is associate professor of English and French studies at Concordia University and director of the Montreal Working Group of Circus Research. Charles R. Batson is associate professor of French and francophone studies at Union College.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Reading Quebec's Expanding Circus Boundaries
- Introduction: Reinventing Tradition, Building a Field: Quebec Circus and Its Scholarship
- I: Quebec on Planet Circus
- 1 The Québécois Circus in the Concert of Nations: Exchange and Transversality
- 2 A Tale of Origins: Deconstructing North American "Cirque" Where Québécois and American Circus Cultures Meet
- 3 Are Quebec Circuses of Foreign Origin?
- II: Cirque Brands
- 4 Performance Services: The Promises of Cirque du Soleil
- 5 The Last Man in Quebec: Between Circus and Religion
- 6 Circus and Gentrification
- III: Dramaturgy and Aesthetics
- 7 Les 7 doigts de la main and Their Cirque: Origins, Resistances, Intimacies
- 8 The Multiple Bodies of Cirque du Soleil
- 9 "Somewhere between Science and Legend": Images of Indigeneity in Robert Lepage and Cirque du Soleil's Totem
- IV: Circus Problematized
- 10 Creativity's Tug-of-War between Artists and Managers: A Mediator's Perspective on the Case of Cirque du Soleil's "Complexe Cirque"
- 11 A Las Vegas of the North? The Architectural Brutalism of Cirque du Soleil
- 12 The Chinese Connection: The Transnational Origins of Québécois Circus Arts
- V: Affecting Change
- 13 Creativity and Place in the Evolution of a Cultural Industry: The Case of Cirque du Soleil
- 14 Introducing Decision Training into an Elite Circus Arts Training Program
- 15 Singular Bodies, Collective Dreams: Socially Engaged Circus Arts and the "Quebec Spring"
- Epilogue: Circus Reinvested
- Glossary of Circus Terms
- Notes
- References
- Contributors
- Index
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