Cirque Éloize
Montreal-style Soleil clone. One of the three big companies dominating the scene in Montreal Cirque Éloize are, like Cirque du Soleil (who own a stake in the company), an entertainment vehicle that at any one time is simultaneously touring multiple big-budget glossy productions around the world. They have a reputation as being sharper and having more of an edge that CDS, but the company creates shows in fundamentally the same way, authorship residing with the directing/producing company rather than the artists themselves.
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In iD we travel across the city, in day and night, for vignettes of urban lives. At the back of the stage the blank faces of a big, blocky set receive projections and transform into the different districts of the city: a construction site, a broad night view of slitted yellow windows, a residential building with its storeys criss-crossed by fire escape stairs.
"'This is the hat room.' The group shuffles round and strafes in that way to get a view through the window's narrow aperture: rows of long workbenches and sewing machines, fabric, mannequins. In a glass case by the door there's a small display of hats, or more broadly headgear, one item supporting long wavy bat ears and another stretched out in green-yellow, textured lizard skin. The guide is telling us that they employ fifty artisan hat-makers here, full-time."
Sideshow visits the nuclear family at Montreal's Saint-Michel district: La TOHU, Cirque du Soleil, and the École nationale de cirque.
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