High Life
As Cirque du Soleil turns 30, Hayley Leaver goes backstage at the Royal Albert Hall ahead of the return of their award-winning show Quidam
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ince starting out as a band of colourful characters roaming the streets of Baie- Saint-Paul, Canada, striding on stilts, juggling, dancing, breathing fire and
playing music, Cirque du Soleil has become the largest theatrical producer in the world – with more than 100 million spectators seeing their shows since 1984. Today, the business has 5,000 employees
worldwide, including more than 1,300 artists, and presented 19 different shows around the
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world last year alone. What better way to cel- ebrate its latest anniversary then than by catch- ing up with Quidam’s Artistic Director, Luc Ouellette, before the circus rolls into London on January 4th 2014. “We definitely intend to celebrate this impor- tant milestone,” said Luc Ouellette. “Without a doubt Cirque’s creativity and the quality of the brand have enabled it to achieve this. “For all our creations we try to push the boundaries, to reinvent ourselves. And we hope
to continue to create fabulous shows, to raise the bar when it comes to circus performances and also to spread director Franco Dragone’s expertise in the entertainment business to de- velop new models of exciting products for the pleasure of all,” he added. Quidam sees Luc Ouellette join forces with
Franco Dragone for their third production, af- ter previous success with Alegrìa and O. Mr Ouellette said: “I have been spoiled to work on three of the shows created by Franco
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