Cover
Contents
Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Reading Quebec’s Expanding Circus Boundaries
Introduction: Reinventing Tradition, Building a Field: Quebec Circus and Its Scholarship
I: Quebec on Planet Circus
1 The Québécois Circus in the Concert of Nations: Exchange and Transversality
2 A Tale of Origins: Deconstructing North American “Cirque” Where Québécois and American Circus Cultures Meet
3 Are Quebec Circuses of Foreign Origin?
II: Cirque Brands
4 Performance Services: The Promises of Cirque du Soleil
5 The Last Man in Quebec: Between Circus and Religion
6 Circus and Gentrification
III: Dramaturgy and Aesthetics
7 Les 7 doigts de la main and Their Cirque: Origins, Resistances, Intimacies
8 The Multiple Bodies of Cirque du Soleil
9 “Somewhere between Science and Legend”: Images of Indigeneity in Robert Lepage and Cirque du Soleil’s Totem
IV: Circus Problematized
10 Creativity’s Tug-of-War between Artists and Managers: A Mediator’s Perspective on the Case of Cirque du Soleil’s “Complexe Cirque”
11 A Las Vegas of the North? The Architectural Brutalism of Cirque du Soleil
12 The Chinese Connection: The Transnational Origins of Québécois Circus Arts
V: Affecting Change
13 Creativity and Place in the Evolution of a Cultural Industry: The Case of Cirque du Soleil
14 Introducing Decision Training into an Elite Circus Arts Training Program
15 Singular Bodies, Collective Dreams: Socially Engaged Circus Arts and the “Quebec Spring”
Epilogue: Circus Reinvested
Glossary of Circus Terms
Notes
References
Contributors
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