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Gilles Ste-Croix is a Canadian entrepreneur and the vice president and co-creator of Cirque du Soleil. He started Cirque du Soleil with co-founder Guy Laliberté. His son, Olivier Rochette, a technician with Cirque du Soleil, was killed by a blow to the head from an aerial lift in an on-set accident in November 2016.
- Early Life
- Les Échassiers de Baie-Saint-Paul
- Club Des Talons Hauts
- Cirque Du Soleil
Gilles Ste-Croix grew up in the small town of La Sarre in the Abitibi region of Quebec, near the Ontario border. (See also Lake Abitibi.) In his youth, he idolized The Beatles and wanted his father to buy him a bass guitar. His father was worried Gilles would spend his life playing music in pubs and tried to dissuade him from a life of performance....
In 1979, Gilles Ste-Croix and his friend Guy Laliberté found themselves in the Quebec town of Baie-Saint-Paul, a well-known artistic community in the Charlevoix region. Inspired by the stilt walkers with the Bread and Puppet Theatre troupe of Vermont (with whom he had performed), Ste-Croix created his own stilt-walking troupe: Les Échassiers de Bai...
Ste-Croix then established a non-profit holding company to raise public funding through government programs. This organization was called Club des Talons Hauts (The High Heeled Club). Within a year, his efforts were paying off and the group broke even. In 1982, Ste-Croix and Laliberté created La Fête Foraine, a street performance fair that featured...
The artistic concept for Cirque du Soleil was developed around dramatized circus and street theatre techniques: acrobatic and technological feats performed in colourful, zany costumes, set to lighting effects and original music to create entertaining worlds of physical poetry. Cirque also distinguished itself from the traditional circus by not usin...
Cirque du Soleil is a global circus company that started as a street show in Quebec in the 1980s. Learn how Gilles Ste-Croix and his troupe of performers created a new and innovative style of circus arts that captivated audiences worldwide.
Dec 12, 2013 · "If you have a very good artistic product it's very well, but you have to have a good business management," says Gilles Ste-Croix, one of the company's co-founders and its current artistic...
Dec 9, 2021 · Gilles Ste‑Croix, O.C., artiste de rue, homme d’affaires (né en 1950 à La Sarre, au Québec). En 1984, Gilles Ste‑Croix et Guy Laliberté ont transformé leur troupe d’artistes de la rue pour créer le Cirque du Soleil, qui allait devenir la plus grande compagnie de production de cirque et une des plus grandes entreprises de divertissement au monde.
Gilles Ste-Croix, OC, street performer, businessman (born 1950 in La Sarre, Quebec). In 1984, Gilles Ste-Croix and Guy Laliberté transformed their troupe of st...
Dec 21, 2009 · Interview with Gilles Ste-Croix. Show Caption. of. By Terence Loose | Orange County Register. December 21, 2009 at 2:00 a.m. While living in a commune in Quebec in the late 1970s, Gilles...
