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Reading Quebec's expanding circus boundaries / Charles R. Batson -- Reinventing tadition, building a field: Quebec Circus and its scholarship / Louis Patrick Leroux -- The Québécois Circus in the Concert of Nations: exchange and transversality / Pascal Jacob -- Tale of origins: deconstructing North American "Cirque" where Québécois and American circus cultures meet / Louis Patrick Leroux -- Are Quebec circuses of foreign origin? / Julie Boudreault -- Performance services: The promises of Cirque du Soleil / Erin Hurley -- The last man in Quebec: between circus and religion / Sylvain Lavoi --

Circus and gentrification / Susan Bennett -- Les 7 doigts de la main and their cirque: origins, resistances, intimacies / Charles R. Batson -- The multiple bodies of Cirque du Soleil / Erin Hurley -- "Somewhere between Science and Legend": images of indigeneity in Robert Lepage and Cirque du Soleil's Totem / Karen Fricker -- Creativity's tug-of-war between artists and managers : a mediator's perspective on the case of Cirque du Soleil's "complexe cirque" / Isabelle Mahy -- A Las Vegas of the North? The architectural brutalism of Cirque du Soleil / Simon Harel --

The Chinese connection: the transnational origins of Québécois Circus arts / Tracy Y. Zhang -- Creativity and place in the evolution of a cultural industry: the case of Cirque du Soleil / Deborah Leslie and Norma M. Rantisi -- Introducing decision training into an elite Circus arts training Program / Sylvain Lafortune, Jon Burtt and Patrice Aubertin -- Singular bodies, collective dreams: socially engaged circus arts and the "Quebec Spring" / Jennifer Beth Spiegel -- Circus reinvested / Louis Patrick Leroux -- Glossary of circus terms / Anna-Karyna Barlati

"With a billion-dollar industry centred in Montreal, the province of Quebec has established itself as a major hub for contemporary circus. Cirque du Soleil has a global presence, and troupes such as Cirque Éloize and 7 doigts de la main are state-of-the-art innovators. The National Circus School of Montreal - the only state-funded elite training facility in North America - is an influential leader in artistry and technique. Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil's Cirque du Monde supports arts for social change on many continents and is renowned for its social-circus training and research. Cirque Global is the first book-length study of this new variety of circus and its international impact. The contributors offer critical perspectives on this rapidly developing art form and its aesthetics, ethics, business practices, pedagogical implications, and discursive significations. Essays explore creative, entrepreneurial, and cultural forces that are shaping Quebec's dynamic nouveau cirque. Lavishly illustrated with photographs from circus performances, the volume showcases Quebec circus's hybrid forms, which have merged the ethos and aesthetics of European circuses with American commercial and industrial creativity. Cirque Global is the definitive study of the phenomenon of Quebec circus and is an important model for future research on contemporary circus."