Cirque Eloize: Contemporary Circus

Hi, everybody!  There are a ton of Circus companies rolling through Atlanta this month, and I wanted to highlight one that is very dear to my heart, Cirque Eloize.  They are performing their show Saloon this Tuesday night at 8:00pm at the Byers Theatre at City Springs in Sandy Springs.  This 85-minute long Western style show features a combination of live folk music with strength, agility, and original acrobatic choreography.  While they’re performing an American Wild West story, this company actually hails from French Canada.  Co-founded in 1993 by Jeannot Painchaud and Daniel Cyr (creator of a little apparatus we like to call the ::ahem:: Cyr wheel…maybe you’ve heard of it?), Cirque Eloize is arguably one of the leading modern circus companies.  They are currently based in Old Montreal and can boast of more than 5,500 performances in over 550 cities around the world and have been appreciated by more than 3.5 million spectators.  They are one of the companies that have redefined Circus, as they aim to perform in a contemporary fashion.  Contemporary circus (also known as “cirque nouveau”) is usually all human, meaning that no animals are used in the shows.  It combines circus and theater and focuses on character development, aesthetic impact, and unity of acts surrounding a central narrative/theme.  Cirque Eloize achieves this and more in a commanding fashion and has worked hard to redefine modern art in the otherwise very traditional art form that is Circus.  If you’d like to learn more about this thought provoking company or purchase tickets to Tuesday’s show, you can check them out here: https://www.cirque-eloize.com/en/about/

Happy Sunday, everyone!

Angelica 0=)