Sujets :
Histoire des arts du cirque - États-Unis
Histoire des arts du cirque - Québec (Province)
Arts du cirque - Philosophie et théorie
Nouveau cirque - États-Unis
Animaux de cirque
Big Apple Circus [compagnie de cirque]
Binder, Paul
Burgess, Hovey [acteur]
Caron, Guy [metteur en piste]
Circus Flora [organsime de cirque]
Écoles de cirque
Cirque du Soleil [compagnie de cirque]
Art clownesque - Histoire
École nationale de cirque (Montréal, Québec)
Laliberté, Guy [gestionaire de cirque]
Pickle Family Circus [compagnie de cirque]
Pisoni, Larry
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus [compagnie de cirque]

Dépouillement du document :
Bigger isn't better any more
From the street to the ring
A one-ring classic
The circus reinvented
The plot thickens
Moscow on the hudson
The most difficult trick of all
Training talent for tomorrow
Must there be animals ?
The circus of tomorrow.

Résumé :
In a plodding academic study, Albrecht, who teaches English at Middlesex County College in New Jersey, tells the story of four modern circuses that evolved after the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus abandoned the big top in 1956. They are the Pickle Family Circus in San Francisco, the Big Apple Circus in New York City, Cirque du Soleil in Montreal and Circus Flora in St. Louis. Each offers one-ring productions in the European style, and each operates from a different home base. Albrecht maintains that, combining elements of the counterculture of the 1960s like street performances with those of legitimate theater and dance, these four represent a new brand of circus. Describing their histories, he summarizes the trials brought by economic crises, battles with animal-rights activists and the founding of circus schools, no longer a rarity in the U.S. While Albrecht distinguishes the "alternative circus" from its ancestors, the presence of trapeze artists, jugglers and clowns suggests that it's the same old material wrapped in new diction.

Collection : Collection Pascal Jacob;Collection documentaire du Cirque du Soleil;Collection Jan Rok Achard

Localisation : Bibliothèque

Cote : 791.309 73 A341n 1995

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