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Before Guy Laliberte's Cirque Du Soleil rose 20 years ago, the big top had degenerated into a tedium of cliches: Bozo-like clown acts, dancing bears in dresses and men with whips sticking their coiffed heads into lions' mouths. Laliberte changed all that, building a new, animal-free circus prototype that emphasized heart-tingling theatricality, New Age sensibilities and jaw-dropping athleticism. Then his troupe invaded Las Vegas, bringing imaginative original productions to the land of showgirls and Elvis impersonators. Today, Laliberte's 3,000-strong company juggles nine spectacular shows: five that tour the globe and four resident...
...player transform a ragtag band of Quebecois buskers into a $500 million entertainment juggernaut? "Childlike naivete," says Laliberte, the company's puckish owner, CEO and co-founder. His impact is hard to underestimate. "Every circus I see around the world has some influence in style of the Cirque du Soleil," says Ernest Albrecht, author of The New American Circus. Cirque has also sparked interest in vaudeville, acrobatics and street performance. Up next: another Vegas show, premiering in September, a new touring show for 2005 and possibly, down the road, even Cirque-themed restaurants, spas and casinos. The high-wire...
...Naked mimes! Nuff said. No? Then add that Cirque du Soleil?s sexy cabaret at the New York New York resort in Las Vegas has some seductive pas de deux and a lovely onanistic girl-on-a-rope act. As I reported in a November column, it?s erotic and transporting...
...idealism of the sixties, avant-garde architects such as Sert saw the opportunity to use the University as a living laboratory. The most visible of these projects, a darling of Modernist architects, was an approach to building with pre-fabricated components. The modular concrete panels and brightly colored brise-soleil baffles of the Holyoke Center are indicative of Sert’s larger social goals of implementing low-cost building techniques for housing...
...design had an element of gimmickry. Any time an architect departs from the rectilinear grid—the most natural form of architecture—it should be for a reason other than the purely aesthetic. With the facade facing north, there was no real necessity for a brise soleil, as the wire mesh would ostensibly have been. Local residents did not like a foreigner telling them what was contextual and appropriate for the Square, leading the Cambridge Historical Commission to shoot down Hollein’s design...