Le Cirque du Québec
Woah! I mean, I knew that there were a couple of circuses in Quebec and maybe a couple of circus schools here and there, but who knew that Montreal and Quebec were such bastions of circusness?
Last Saturday night I went out with a couple of friends or six to dinner (report to be mutually masticated soon) and then we met up at Copacabana on St-Laurent with about 15 more McGill-related peeps. Let me clear up right now that the Copacabana that we went to is just a normal bar with tables, chairs and the pitchers of beer that I never go in on since I don't really drink and not the sleazeball, salsa-dancing pickup joint on de Maisonneuve.
Right. Now I've got a classmate named Bethany who is really adorable and really interesting. She used to work on the Current and she's always doing something interesting. That night she was meeting up with another group of friends later on, a group of circus performer friends. We proceeded to fantasize about how wonderful it would be to live in your own creative fantasy world all day. Painting, drawing, going to dance and movement class, working out to increase your strength so that you can perform daring stunts, practicing piano for 2 hours per day. Yup, sounds like the life I'm looking for - let me add that in my life my books sell millions and my paintings sell for thousands and I am also a great and well-travelled philanthropist.
Anyhoo, this conversation prompted me to look into the state of circusness in Quebec. Lo and behold, we're overloaded with circus schools and circuses in general.
From, ecole-de-cirque.com, here is a sampling of the circus schools:
Association de monocycle de Québec
Centre de formation Barry
École de Cirque de Québec
École de cirque de Verdun
École nationale de Cirque
Géronimo
Trapezium
And here is a sampling of the circuses based in Montreal/Quebec:
Cirque Du Soleil
Cirque Éloize
La Tohu
And finally, Saturdays at 10pm on TV5 there is a show called Saltimbanques, which features many Quebec-trained circus artists.
The question is, what does all of this circusness say about our fair city or la belle province? Are we so artistically-inclined/silly that we merit this much circus activity? Are we crazy and so our normal art ends up being circus appropriate? Are we really melancholy so that we mask it with circus antics? Maybe you, fair reader, have a appropriate suggestion so that I might decide whether we need praising or saving.
Last Saturday night I went out with a couple of friends or six to dinner (report to be mutually masticated soon) and then we met up at Copacabana on St-Laurent with about 15 more McGill-related peeps. Let me clear up right now that the Copacabana that we went to is just a normal bar with tables, chairs and the pitchers of beer that I never go in on since I don't really drink and not the sleazeball, salsa-dancing pickup joint on de Maisonneuve.
Right. Now I've got a classmate named Bethany who is really adorable and really interesting. She used to work on the Current and she's always doing something interesting. That night she was meeting up with another group of friends later on, a group of circus performer friends. We proceeded to fantasize about how wonderful it would be to live in your own creative fantasy world all day. Painting, drawing, going to dance and movement class, working out to increase your strength so that you can perform daring stunts, practicing piano for 2 hours per day. Yup, sounds like the life I'm looking for - let me add that in my life my books sell millions and my paintings sell for thousands and I am also a great and well-travelled philanthropist.
Anyhoo, this conversation prompted me to look into the state of circusness in Quebec. Lo and behold, we're overloaded with circus schools and circuses in general.
From, ecole-de-cirque.com, here is a sampling of the circus schools:
Association de monocycle de Québec
Centre de formation Barry
École de Cirque de Québec
École de cirque de Verdun
École nationale de Cirque
Géronimo
Trapezium
And here is a sampling of the circuses based in Montreal/Quebec:
Cirque Du Soleil
Cirque Éloize
La Tohu
And finally, Saturdays at 10pm on TV5 there is a show called Saltimbanques, which features many Quebec-trained circus artists.
The question is, what does all of this circusness say about our fair city or la belle province? Are we so artistically-inclined/silly that we merit this much circus activity? Are we crazy and so our normal art ends up being circus appropriate? Are we really melancholy so that we mask it with circus antics? Maybe you, fair reader, have a appropriate suggestion so that I might decide whether we need praising or saving.
posted by Laurelle St. Laurent at 12:17 p.m.
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