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Zarkana
''Zarkana'' was a Cirque du Soleil stage production written and directed by François Girard. It began as a touring show in 2011 and was converted to a resident show in Las Vegas in late 2012. It premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on June 29, 2011, and later toured to the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow and the Madrid Arena in Madrid. The show was marketed as a reinvention of the variety show, with a story about a magician in an abandoned theatre who had lost his love and his magic. As he cried and begged the gods for her return, he was plunged into a world inhabited by surreal creatures. The title ''Zarkana'' is a fusion of the words "bizarre" and "arcana", referring to the strange aura and atmosphere of this place and its inhabitants. Following ''Zarkanas successful run in Moscow, the show started residency at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on November 9, 2012. The show replaced the Cirque du Soleil resident production ''Viva Elvis'', which had close ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cirque Du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil (, ; "Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 June 1984 by former street performers Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix. Originating as a performing troupe called ''Les Échassiers'' (; "The Stilt Walkers"), they toured Quebec in various forms between 1979 and 1983. Their initial financial hardship was relieved in 1983 by a government grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to perform as part of the 450th anniversary celebrations of Jacques Cartier's voyage to Canada. Their first official production ''Le Grand Tour du Cirque du Soleil'' was a success in 1984, and after securing a second year of funding, Laliberté hired Guy Caron from the National Circus School to recreate it as a "proper circus". Its theatrical, character-driven approach and the absence of performing animals help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aria Resort And Casino
Aria Resort and Casino is a luxury resort and casino, part of the CityCenter complex on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. Aria consists of two curved glass and steel highrise towers adjoined at the center. It opened on December 16, 2009 as a joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Infinity World Development. It is owned by The Blackstone Group and operated by MGM Resorts International. At and in height, it is the largest and tallest structure at CityCenter. The resort's 61 and 51-story towers contain an AAA five-diamond hotel with 4,004 guest rooms and suites, 16 restaurants, 10 bars and nightclubs, and a casino with of gaming space. It also has a pool area with 34 cabanas, an salon and spa, a convention center and a 1,800-seat theater which hosted ''Zarkana'' by Cirque du Soleil, until closing April 30, 2016. Among the most notable aspects of Aria is its incorporation of technology in the exterior and interior design of the hotel, specifically for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassiopée (Véronique Lapierre)
Cassiopée (born 16 October 1977) is a francophone Canadian singer and entertainer. Since 2011, she has played the lead female character Lia in Cirque du Soleil show, ''Zarkana''. She also plays three of the four other female parts in the production. Biography Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, Cassiopée began her artistic training at the age of 4, with dance (jazz, ballet, tap and flamenco). At 14, she began her classical voice and music training and pop-rock singing. She also studied acting and many others relevant skills. She started her professional career by performing in over 500 shows by the French-traditional cabaret company's Les Folie's de Paris in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada and then in Lille and Cannes, France, as a dancer, magician's assistant, entertainer, and lead singer, before moving to Montreal in 2000 as the star of another cabaret and musical company, La Troupe Paris Paris. In 2002, she was awarded Best Interpreter and Best On-Stage Presence at Le Fest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viva Elvis
''Viva Elvis'' was the seventh resident Cirque du Soleil show on the Las Vegas Strip. It resided at the Aria Resort & Casino and premiered on February 19, 2010. The show closed on August 31, 2012. Cirque du Soleil partnered with Elvis Presley Enterprises to produce this show, similar to how they partnered with The Beatles' Apple Corps Ltd to produce the resident show ''Love'' at the Mirage. CKX, Inc., the company that owns the rights to Elvis Presley's name, likeness, and music publishing, signed an agreement to have Cirque du Soleil create the Elvis-themed residency show. The gala premiere was originally scheduled for January 2010 on what would have been Elvis' 75th birthday, but was postponed until February 19, 2010. CKX and Cirque du Soleil eventually intended to develop additional touring shows and multimedia interactive "Elvis Experiences" throughout the world. Closure Due to low attendance records for ''Viva Elvis'', MGM Resorts asked Cirque du Soleil to replace the show. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue and Theater (structure), theater at 1260 Sixth Avenue (Manhattan), Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Nicknamed "The Showplace of the Nation", it is the headquarters for the Rockettes. Radio City Music Hall was designed by Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey in the Art Deco style. Radio City Music Hall was built on a plot of land that was originally intended for a Metropolitan Opera House, although plans for the opera house were canceled in 1929. It opened on December 27, 1932, as part of the construction of Rockefeller Center. The 5,960-seat Music Hall was the larger of two venues built for Rockefeller Center's "Radio City" section, the other being Center Theatre (New York City), Center Theatre; the "Radio City" name later came to apply only to the Music Hall. It was largely successful until the 1970s, when declining patronage nearly drove the theater to bank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Littlemore
Nicholas George Littlemore (born 6 May 1978) is an Australian musician, record producer, singer and songwriter. As a musician, he is the frontman of the electronic duo Pnau, an ex-member of the art-rock band Teenager (band), Teenager and one part of the electro pop-project Empire of the Sun (band), Empire of the Sun. As a record producer, he has worked with Elton John, Lover Lover, Groove Armada and Mika (singer), Mika. From late 2009, Littlemore had worked with the Cirque Du Soleil as a composer and musical director for the touring arena show ''Zarkana'', which debuted on 29 June 2011. His older brother Sam Littlemore, Sam La More is also a musician and record producer. In 2019, he and Peter Mayes launched the label Lab78. Biography Littlemore was born on 6 May 1978 in Sydney and was raised in Wahroonga, New South Wales, Wahroonga with his older brothers, James (later a music video director) and Sam Littlemore (born February 1975, later a musician and producer). In 2011 Little ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris (Cirque Du Soleil)
''Iris'' was a resident Cirque du Soleil show based in Los Angeles, California. It premiered on September 25, 2011, after preview performances which began on July 21, 2011. The cost for production of the show was nearly $100 million, which included the cost of renovating the Dolby Theatre in which the show was housed. ''Iris'' was written and directed by French director-choreographer Philippe Decouflé. The show explored images from the history of cinema and featured elaborate choreography, acrobatics, and a variety of contemporary circus acts. The name of the show, ''Iris'', comes from the camera diaphragm as well as from the colored iris of the human eye. In November 2012 it was reported that ''Iris'' would end its run at the Dolby Theatre on January 19, 2013 due to disappointing ticket sales. It was later reported that Cirque du Soleil looked into the possibility of taking ''Iris'' to other cities in the United States. Scenes from ''Iris'' would later be incorporated into th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Kremlin Palace
The State Kremlin Palace (russian: Государственный Кремлёвский Дворец), formerly and unofficially still better known as the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (Кремлёвский Дворец съездов), is a large modern building inside the Moscow Kremlin. History The building was built at the initiative of Nikita Khrushchev as a modern arena for Communist Party meetings. The building replaced several heritage buildings including the old neo-classical building of the State Armoury and some of the back corpuses of the Great Kremlin Palace. This, and that the architecture of the projected building contrasted with the historic milieu resulted in quite an uproar, particularly after other historic buildings of the Kremlin, such as the Chudov and Ascension cloisters, had already been replaced and laws by the mid-1950s ought to prevent demolishion of historic structures, making the construction in some ways illegal. The construction work started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totem (Cirque Du Soleil)
''Totem'' is a touring show by Cirque du Soleil that premiered in Montréal on April 22, 2010. It was written and directed by previous collaborator Robert Lepage (''Kà''). Cirque du Soleil describes ''Totem''s theme as the evolution of humanity from its primordial, amphibian state toward the aspiration of flight, taking inspiration from many of humanity's founding myths. The show was awarded the 2013 New York Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience. All of Cirque du Soleil's previous touring productions were originally created to be performed inside large, custom-designed tents (called the ''grand chapiteau''), but many of those shows have since been re-staged in arenas and other venues after the conclusion of their "big top" tour. ''Totems creation team faced the challenge of designing a show that could be adapted for arenas and other venues from the outset. Set and technical information Cirque du Soleil used interactive projection technologies to enhance and provid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garou (singer)
Pierre Garand (born 26 June 1972), known by his stage name Garou (a diminutive of his last name "Garand"), is a Canadian singer and entertainer from Sherbrooke, Québec. He is known for his work in the musical Notre-Dame de Paris (playing Quasimodo in both the original French and English casts) and the No. 1 hits " Belle", "Seul", " Sous le vent", and "La Rivière de notre enfance". Profile Garou was born in Canada. Garou began playing the guitar at the age of three at the encouragement of his father (he also plays piano and trumpet). He went on to serve in the military and started a band in 1992 called the Untouchables. In 1997, he was discovered by Luc Plamondon while singing American blues tunes in a Sherbrooke bar. He was drafted by Plamondon to play the role of Quasimodo in his musical Notre-Dame de Paris, which made him a star in France and propelled his career into action. He would play the role of Quasimodo for 3 years. His first album ''Seul'' became the best-se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Lamothe
Serge Lamothe (born February 15, 1963) is a French-Canadian writer. Education He holds a master's degree in literature from Laval University in Quebec City. Career He was a member of the board and vice president, in 2005, of UNEQ (Quebec Writers Union). From 2006 to 2015, he was a member of the board of the FIL (International Festival of Literature) in Montreal, Canada. Theater *''Le Prince de Miguasha'', radio play, Radio-Canada, 2003. *''Rapports intimes'', translation & adaptation of '' Intimate Exchanges'' by Alan Ayckbourn, 2003. *''Le Procès de Kafka'', stage adaptation of ''The Trial'', by Franz Kafka, 2004. *''Le fusil de chasse'', stage adaptation of ''The Hunting Gun'', by Yasushi Inoue, 2010. *''Kinkaku-ji'', stage adaptation of ''The Temple of the Golden Pavilion'' by Yukio Mishima, directed by Amon Miyamoto, Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Tokyo, and Lincoln Center, NYC, 2011. *''Waiting for Godot'', by Samuel Beckett, dramatist, directed by François Girard, Théâtre d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Girard
François Girard (born January 12, 1963) is a French Canadian director and screenwriter from Montreal. Born in Saint-Félicien, Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit. In 1990, he produced his first feature film, ''Cargo''; he attained international recognition following his 1993 ''Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould'', a series of vignettes about the life of piano prodigy Glenn Gould. In 1998, he wrote and directed ''The Red Violin'', which follows the ownership of a red violin over several centuries. ''The Red Violin'' won an Academy Award for Best Original Score, thirteen Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards. He has also directed various works for the stage, including Stravinsky's ''Symphony of Psalms'', '' Oedipus Rex'' and '' Novencento'' at the Edinburgh International Festival; Kafka's ''The Trial'', adapted for the stage by Serge Lamothe at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa; the oratorio '' Lost Objects'' at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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