Friday, August 23, 2019
FORBES: “The Show Must Go On!”
www.cirquefascination.com: Guy Laliberté stands on a dock at the old port of Montreal and surveys the skyline. This is the city of a hundred steeples, as well as the 20-story La Grande Roue de Montréal Ferris wheel and the 90-year-old Jacques Cartier Bridge, its cantilevers a bright aqua blue. Up above is Mount Royal, the hill topped with a 100-foot steel cross. To his right, a blue-and-white-striped circus tent.
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Two of my biggest loves in this world are circus and theater tech. Although, I have not gotten to see a Cirque show yet, I know a handful of people who have performed in their shows and I watch videos from them all the time. The cirque shows are incredibly impressive from a technological and circus perspective. Ka, which was at least, the most technologically advanced show at the time, has many rotating layers, and the performers even have to take fall training. The show has also revolutionized our idea of what a "circus" is. In it's beginning days, the circus was about seeing things that the audience had never seen before, but cirque has made it into an art, with dancers and elaborate costumes. They are so strict that they keep a spreadsheet of juggling drops and you can be terminated for too many. That's a terrifying idea for a juggler like me.
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