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CIRQUE DU SOLEIL II (HBO, Dec. 17, 21). Montreal's fantastical theatrical circus troupe presents an all-new show, spotlighting a bewitching company of aerialists, acrobats, contortionists and clowns...
...superficial way: a style analogous to the poise and manners of the true gentleman, a conception of human character that was forming at the Stuart court even as he worked there and was thought to radiate from the person of the King. Let the French have their Roi Soleil, a periwigged divinity; Van Dyck would give the court an iconography of kingship that was, if not exactly informal, at least more humanly accessible...
...GOODWILL ARTS FESTIVAL. Just as Ted Turner's Goodwill Games will bring international athletic stars to the Seattle area, this festival will gather there some of the world's most talented performing-arts groups, including the Bolshoi Ballet, Cirque du Soleil and the Grand Kabuki Theater of Japan. Through Sept...
...CIRQUE DU SOLEIL. A few tattered folk wander into the big top and presto! turn into the world's most beguiling circus performers. This luminous spectacle, which sets up its tent next week in Santa Monica, Calif., and can be seen on HBO throughout this month, packs more magic than Merlin's wand. The Montreal-based Cirque may have lost a spangle or two since its first U.S. tour, but it remains, whatever Ringling may say, the greatest show on earth...
...that the circus never changes. That may be why a brash Canadian named Guy Laliberte says he hates the circus and why a colleague, Denis Lacombe, thinks clowns are boring. What makes their opinions worthwhile is that Laliberte is the founder of the Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil (Circus of the Sun), which hoists its 1,756-seat tent in New York City this week as part of a North American tour that has made it something of a cult attraction. And Lacombe is his star clown, who does a socko act conducting the 1812 Overture in ski boots while...