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ExcerptsBackground NoteIn 1980, Gilles Ste-Croix (Ste-Croix), with skills in stilt-walking , along with some performers founded Les Echassiers de Baie-Saint-Paul (Les Echassiers), and began street performances. Soon Laliberte and Daniel Gauthier (Gauthier) joined the group. In the same year, Gauthier and Ste-Croix planned to turn Le Balcon Vert, a performing artists' youth hostel that they managed into an organized performing troupe...
TrainingOf the total, almost seventy five percent of Cirque's performers were selected from competitive sports and then over about six months, they were trained to become artists, which meant that other than acrobatics, they learnt to act, sing, and play music. Interestingly, Cirque functioned without any make-up artists...
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