Chapter 7 Les 7 doigts de la main and Their Cirque: Origins, Resistances, Intimacies

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Reading Quebec's Expanding Circus Boundaries xvii
6. Reinventing Tradition, Building a Field: Quebec Circus and Its Scholarship 3
7. Quebec on Planet Circus
8. The Québécois Circus in the Concert of Nations: Exchange and Transversality 25
9. A Tale of Origins: Deconstructing North American “Cirque” Where Québécois and American Circus Cultures Meet 36
10. Are Quebec Circuses of Foreign Origin? 55
11. Cirque Brands
12. Performance Services: The Promises of Cirque du Soleil 71
13. The Last Man in Quebec: Between Circus and Religion 79
14. Circus and Gentrification 85
15. Dramaturgy and Aesthetics
16. Les 7 doigts de la main and Their Cirque: Origins, Resistances, Intimacies 99
17. The Multiple Bodies of Cirque du Soleil 122
18. “Somewhere between Science and Legend”: Images of Indigeneity in Robert Lepage and Cirque du Soleil's Totem 140
19. Circus Problematized
20. Creativity's Tug-of-War between Artists and Managers: A Mediator's Perspective on the Case of Cirque du Soleil's “Complexe Cirque” 161
21. A Las Vegas of the North? The Architectural Brutalism of Cirque du Soleil 181
22. The Chinese Connection: The Transnational Origins of Québécois Circus Arts 202
23. Affecting Change
24. Creativity and Place in the Evolution of a Cultural Industry: The Case of Cirque du Soleil 223
25. Introducing Decision Training into an Elite Circus Arts Training Program 240
26. Singular Bodies, Collective Dreams: Socially Engaged Circus Arts and the “Quebec Spring” 266
27. Epilogue: Circus Reinvested 284
28. Glossary of Circus Terms 294
29. Notes 309
30. References 327
31. Contributors 347
32. Index 353