Totem rises high in Cirque tent
Cirque du Soleil's Totemfrom the Toronto Sun
By John Coulbourn ,QMI Agency
Sunday, August 14, 2011
TORONTO - There’s a new Cirque in town, and it’s got Lepage’s fingerprints all over it.
That’s Cirque, as in Cirque du Soleil, the international circus juggernaut that rolled out of Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec in the early ’80s, set on selling its own unique vision of circus entertainment to the world.
And that’s Lepage, as in Robert Lepage, the Quebec-based visionary whose imagination has turned modern theatres into houses of wonder, returning to the Cirque fold on the heels of a successful collaboration in 2004 titled Ka.
This time out, they have come together to create Totem — and for those still considering a trip down to the Port Lands off Cherry Street, where Totem opened last week under the Grande Chapiteau, perhaps what you most need to know is that it aims at nothing less than telling the story of the evolution of mankind.
Of course, it is full of trademark Cirque moments, courtesy of daring young men (and women) on flying trapezes, Russian bars and unicycles, with a coterie of jugglers, acrobats, dancers and, of course, clowns (a rather lacklustre bunch, this time out) thrown in for good measure.read more: http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/14/totem-rises-high-in-cirque-tent
That’s Cirque, as in Cirque du Soleil, the international circus juggernaut that rolled out of Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec in the early ’80s, set on selling its own unique vision of circus entertainment to the world.
And that’s Lepage, as in Robert Lepage, the Quebec-based visionary whose imagination has turned modern theatres into houses of wonder, returning to the Cirque fold on the heels of a successful collaboration in 2004 titled Ka.
This time out, they have come together to create Totem — and for those still considering a trip down to the Port Lands off Cherry Street, where Totem opened last week under the Grande Chapiteau, perhaps what you most need to know is that it aims at nothing less than telling the story of the evolution of mankind.
Of course, it is full of trademark Cirque moments, courtesy of daring young men (and women) on flying trapezes, Russian bars and unicycles, with a coterie of jugglers, acrobats, dancers and, of course, clowns (a rather lacklustre bunch, this time out) thrown in for good measure.read more: http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/14/totem-rises-high-in-cirque-tent
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