The Cirque Creation Period

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We’re knee deep in the Creation Period for Cirque Du Soleil’s “ZAIA” show. Here’s a video for my fellow artists that may make you feel better. We’re earning our stripes together and sometimes the pain just shows we’re growing. 🙂

Artists from other shows told me the Creation Period for a Cirque show would be challenging. Yes it is!

What’s it like to work at Cirque?

Received this email today asking me what it’s like to work for Cirque Du Soleil.

Hi Mr. Askland,
I am curious to know how it is to work at Cirque? What are the hours you work as a musician? How long do you have to prepare for an audition after they choose you to be part of the show?

Please let me know.
Best regards
Daniel

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The Cirque Bathrobe

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Artists for Cirque Du Soleil’s ZAIA show got their official Cirque bathrobes yesterday. The photos on this post are not of the actual bathrobe – these are pictures a friend sent me making fun of how much I like my bathrobe. And I do love my Cirque bathrobe! It’s heavy and black with a hood and has a gigantic CDS logo in full color on the back. With the hood we all look like Obi Won Kenobi or Sylvester Stallone in Rocky.

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マカオのシルク・ドゥ・ソレイユ、演目は「ZAIA」

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2008.05.30(14:21)
*NOTE – This post is in Chinese. If you don’t have Chinese fonts installed on your computer – you won’t be able to read it. (Which means you probably don’t read Chinese anyway…)

マカオのシルク・ドゥ・ソレイユ、演目は「ZAIA」
昨日、5月29日に劇場公開及びメディア発表がありました。
マカオでのプログラムは、「ZAIA（ザイア）」に決定しました。この「ZAIA（ザイア）」は、アジア地域で初めて行われる常設公演となります。
２００８年８月２８日に祝賀式典が開催されます。この日はベネチアン・マカオ・リゾート・ホテルの１周年記念にあたります。プレビュー公演は２００８年７月２６日からスタートします。

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