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A cirque (French:; from the Latin word circus) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic: coire, meaning a pot or cauldron) [1] and cwm (Welsh for 'valley'; pronounced). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion.
Cirque du Soleil (French: [siʁk dy sɔlɛj], Canadian French: [sɪʁk d͡zy sɔlɛj]; French for 'Circus of the Sun, Sun Circus') is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. [7]
Their roles are largely confined to brief appearances where they initiate transformations by blowing "solar winds" on the people they encounter. Below is a list of the sun creatures in the order they appear in the series. Listed after each creature is the name of the Cirque du Soleil show in which the character originally appeared.
Cirque’s spectacular acrobatics paid homage to circus traditions going back centuries, while spinning them into a new art form. The shows ditched the animal acts and disconnected stunts of the ...
A cirque is an amphitheatre-like valley formed at the head of a glacier by erosion. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. ...
3. Cosm insists this is not a theater "We're allergic to the term theater," Poolman says. Cosm's creators want the spaces to feel social. That's why they also sell a low-priced general admission ...
Returning from her work with Cirque du Soleil's Dralion, Violaine Corradi wrote the Varekai score, which was released as a CD album on January 7, 2003. Rather than creating a literal soundtrack, Cirque du Soleil collaborated with Nitin Sawhney to produce a CD with themes and sounds from Varekai but differently arranged.
The cirque is 800 m wide (on the deepest point) and about 3,000 m wide at the top. [1] The rock walls that surround it are up to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) above the floor of the Cirque. [1] During the warmer seasons of spring, summer and fall, there are a number of large meltwater falls that spill into the cirque.