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Cirque du Soleil (; "Circus of the Sun") is a Canadian entertainment company, self-described as a "dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment." Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Daniel Gauthier.
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The big thing missing from the Michael Jackson Immortal World Tour is, well, Michael Jackson.
For all intents and purposes the production, put on jointly with the Jackson estate and Cirque du Soleil, is an extension of the singer's world tour that never came to be due to his untimely death from acute propofol intoxication in 2009.From the sale of the Jackson concert t-shirts to the name of the show —"Immortal World Tour"—down to the opening of the concert when an emcee yells, "Ladies and gentlemen Michael Jackson," the scene is set for a Michael Jackson concert.Except he isn't there, and that makes parts of the show feel infinitely creepy.In his stead for most of the production is a sparkly suited mime, Salah, who bends and twists as if there are no bones in his body. As a mime and a cirque performer he is superb. As a Jackson surrogate, he doesn't work.At the start of the show Salah taps the giant Jackson tapestry that serves as a backdrop for the stage. The colorful image of Jackson p...
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The Material Girl will be taking the stage on football's biggest night.Madonna , who has sold more than 300 million records, will perform at halftime of the Super Bo...
Madonna will perform at halftime of the Super Bowl in Indianapolis in February.NBC, which broadcasts football's biggest game, announced during the Detroit-New Orlean...
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Canada's first space tourist is providing a sneak peek of his latest project today.Cirque du soleil founder Guy Laliberte is holding a preview event for a book of mo...
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More exercisers are taking their fitness to the air these days, held aloft by technology borrowed from sources as far-flung as the space program and the circus.Exper...
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