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Cirque Du Soleil
Guy Laliberte the founder of Cirque du Soleil was a clown with a little girl at The Mirage in Las Vegas, who was looking forward to a career in performing arts. He toured Europe as a folk musician and busker after quitting college. He had learned the art of fire breathing by the time he returned to his home country Canada, in 1979.

Created in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984, Cirque du Soleil - French for "Circus of the Sun" is a domain for entertainment. It is a Montreal, Quebec Canadian based organization founded by two ex- street performers - Guy Laliberte and Daniel Gauthier.

They toured Quebec in 1980 as a performing troupe, initially under the name of Les Echassiers and came across some financial adversity. In 1983, as part of 450th celebrations of Jacques Cartier's discovery of Canada, the financial trouble was alleviated through a government funding.

In 1984, with the success of The Le Grand Tour du Cirque du Soleil and with the government funding for the second year Laliberte appointed Guy Caron from the National Circus School to restructure it as a proper circus. None of the rings or animals helped make Cirque du Soleil the contemporary circus Cirque Nouveau or the New Circus as known today. Every show blends in circus styles from around the world with its own central theme and plot, which brings the spectators into the act. They have a unique style of presentation with no curtains, constant live music and performers changing the props.

The Catastrophe in late 1980s followed by the critical and financial success later, at the Los Angeles Arts Festival, Nouvelle Experience was founded with the help of Franco Dragone. By 1990s, it not only led the Cirque towards financial gains but also strengthened it enough for the creation of new shows.

Laliberte was employed at a hydroelectric power plant in James Bay but due to a labor strike, his job ended after only three days. Supporting himself on his unemployment insurance, he decided not to look for another job. Instead, he helped to organize a summer fair in Baie-Saint-Paul with the help of a pair of friends named Daniel Gauthier and Gilles Ste-Croix.

Gauthier and Ste-Croix were administrating a performing artist's youth hostel named Le Balcon Vert at that time. By the summer of 1979, Ste-Croix had been developing the proposal of turning the Balcon Vert and the gifted performers who lived there, into an organized performing troupe. Although the talent was abundant, they lacked the financial support to make their idea a reality. Ste-Croix walked the fifty-six miles from Baie-Saint-Paul to Quebec City on stilts as part of a publicity stunt to induce the Quebec government to help fund his production. The trick worked, giving the three men the money to create Les Echassiers de Baie-Saint-Paul. Utilizing scores of people who would later make up Cirque, Les Echassiers toured Quebec during the summer of 1980.

Cirque has stretched out swiftly during the 1990s and 2000. It grew from one show with 73 employees in 1984 to 3,500 employees from over 40 countries doing fifteen shows touring every continent - presently. Cirque has an estimated annual return greater than US$ 600 million. So far, more than seventy million people have watched the Cirque shows and only the routine shows in Las Vegas are said to be experienced by more than nine thousand people a night - five percent of the citys visitors.

In 1987, Cirque du Soleil (after Laliberte re-privatized) was invited to perform at the Los Angeles Arts Festival; however, they continued to face the financial difficulties. Laliberte and Gauthier took a chance and went to Los Angeles, regardless of only having sufficient money to make a one-way trip. Had the show been a failure, Cirque would not have had enough money to get their performers and equipment back to Montreal.

The show grabbed attention of entertainment executives including Columbia Pictures, which met with Laliberte and Gauthier and showed their interest in making a movie about Cirque du Soleil. Laliberte discontented with the offer, declared that it gave too many rights to Columbia who was only trying to secure all rights to the production. He singled out of the deal prior to its completion. The private ownership and independence of Cirque du Soleil today, can be credited to the decision taken against the Columbia pictures.

In 2000, Laliberte bought Gauthier. With 95% ownership, he has continued to enlarge the trademark. Numerous more shows are under development around the world along with a television agreement, women's clothing line and possibly in other modes such as spas, restaurants and nightclubs.

Cirque's creations have been honored with many prizes and distinctions, including Bambi, Rose d'Or, three Gemini Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2004, Cirque du Soleil was ranked as number 22 in Interbrand's poll of brand names with the highest global impact.

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