The Cirque du Soleil wants to reinvent the circus genre on a higher more spiritual and fabulous level. Guy Laliberté, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, from Montreal, Canada, started the Cirque du Soleil in 1984. He currently heads a team of about 10 creatives. The Cirque du Soleil is an international company with talents from all over the world and performances in Europe, America and Asia.
A L E G R I A
Directed and written: Franco Dragone
Costumes: Dominique Lemieux
Set: Michel Crete
Choreography: Debra Brown
Music composer: René Dupéré
Lighting: Luc Lafortune
Sound design: Guy Desrochers
I watched Alegría lately for the first time on German TV. The show actually came out in 1995.
The artists in the arena are highly professional body artists and also choreographed into detail. They seem to be neither man nor woman. And that's what makes their art so similar to the abstract art of the Guggenheim Museum, so sort of "non-objective".
They embody pure and strong feelings just as the Guggenheim paintings do. The respective human creator is pushed back.
One aspect though: For both acts, be it paintings or artists performances, you still need the human element. You can never come off very far from or deny your human roots.
