Cirque Global: Quebec’s Expanding Circus Boundaries

396 Pages·2016·7.503 MB·English

by  Louis Patrick Leroux, Charles R. Batson, (eds.)

Cirque
Global

Louis Patrick Leroux and Charles R. Batson, Editors
Cirque
Global
Quebec’s Expanding Circus Boundaries
McGill-Queen’sUniversityPress
Montreal&Kingston•London•Chicago
©McGill-Queen’sUniversityPress2016
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LibraryandArchivesCanadaCataloguinginPublication
Cirqueglobal:Quebec’sexpandingcircusboundaries/Louis
PatrickLerouxandCharlesR.Batson,editors.
Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
Issuedinprintandelectronicformats.
isbn978-0-7735-4672-1(cloth).–isbn978-0-7735-4673-8(paperback).
–isbn978-0-7735-9870-6(epdf)
1.Circus–Québec(Province). 2.Circus–Québec(Province)–History.
3.CirqueduSoleil–History. I.Leroux,LouisPatrick,1971–,editor
II.Batson,CharlesR.,editor
gv1805.c3c572016 791.309714 c2016-900709-x
c2016-900710-3
Contents
IllustrationsandTables ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue
ReadingQuebec’sExpandingCircusBoundaries xvii
CharlesR.Batson
Introduction
ReinventingTradition,BuildingaField:QuebecCircus
andItsScholarship 3
LouisPatrickLeroux
I Quebec on Planet Circus
1 TheQuébécoisCircusintheConcertofNations:
ExchangeandTransversality 25
PascalJacob TranslatedbyTiffanyTempleton
2 ATaleofOrigins:DeconstructingNorthAmerican“Cirque”
WhereQuébécoisandAmericanCircusCulturesMeet 36
LouisPatrickLeroux
3 AreQuebecCircusesofForeignOrigin? 55
JulieBoudreault TranslatedbyTaniaGrant
vi Contents
II Cirque Brands
4 PerformanceServices:ThePromisesofCirqueduSoleil 71
ErinHurley
5 TheLastManinQuebec:BetweenCircusandReligion 79
SylvainLavoie TranslatedbyCaitlinStall-Paquet
6 CircusandGentrification 85
SusanBennett
III Dramaturgy and Aesthetics
7 Les7doigtsdelamainandTheirCirque:Origins,
Resistances,Intimacies 99
CharlesR.Batson
8 TheMultipleBodiesofCirqueduSoleil 122
ErinHurley
9 “SomewherebetweenScienceandLegend”:Imagesof
IndigeneityinRobertLepageandCirqueduSoleil’sTotem 140
KarenFricker
IV Circus Problematized
10 Creativity’sTug-of-WarbetweenArtistsandManagers:
AMediator’sPerspectiveontheCaseofCirqueduSoleil’s
“ComplexeCirque” 161
IsabelleMahy
11 ALasVegasoftheNorth?TheArchitecturalBrutalism
ofCirqueduSoleil 181
SimonHarel TranslatedbyMichelleWong
Contents vii
12 TheChineseConnection:TheTransnationalOrigins
ofQuébécoisCircusArts 202
TracyY.Zhang
V AffectingChange
13 CreativityandPlaceintheEvolutionofaCulturalIndustry:
TheCaseofCirqueduSoleil 223
DeborahLeslieandNormaM.Rantisi
14 IntroducingDecisionTrainingintoanEliteCircus
ArtsTrainingProgram 240
SylvainLafortune,JonBurtt,andPatriceAubertin
15 SingularBodies,CollectiveDreams:SociallyEngagedCircus
Artsandthe“QuebecSpring” 266
JenniferBethSpiegel
Epilogue:CircusReinvested 284
LouisPatrickLeroux
GlossaryofCircusTerms 294
Anna-KarynaBarlati TranslatedbySusanKelly
Notes 309
References 327
Contributors 347
Index 353
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Illustrations and Tables
Allphotosandillustrationsusedwithpermission.
Illustrations
i.1 GillesSte-Croixstilt-walking,1980.Photo:RichardGeoffrion,
©CirqueduSoleil xviii
i.2 LaVie,withEmilieBonnavaudandSébastienSoldevila,Les7
doigtsdelamain(7Fingers).Photo:odc Photo xx
i.3 GuyLaliberté,1981.Photo:CirqueduSoleil xxii
i.4 “Lelivredessouhaits,”research-creationworkshopatl’Ecole
nationaledecirque,2007.Photo:ValerieRemise xxvii
i.5 FibonacciProjectinMexico,7Fingers.Photo:MarionBellin
xxviii
i.6 DanieleFinziPasca’sLaVerità,2013.Photo:VivianaCangialosi
xxx
0.1 ID,CirqueÉloize.Photo:ValerieRemise.©2010TheatreTet
Cie 2
0.2 Donka,CompagniaFinziPasca.Photo:VivianaCangialosi 6
0.3 CirqueduMondeinAbidjan,March2001.Photo:EricSt-Pierre.
©CirqueduSoleil 10
0.4 Appliedexamsatl’Écolenationaledecirque,2013.Photo:
RolandLorente/rolandlorente.com 16
0.5 Contemporarycircuscoreresearchclusters.DiagrambyLouis
PatrickLeroux 20
1.1 EarlyCirqueduSoleilbigtopintheGaspésieregion,1984.
©CirqueduSoleil 27