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Gilles Ste-Croix (Quebec, 1949) es un empresario canadiense, vicepresidente y cofundador de Cirque du Soleil. Cofundó Cirque du Soleil junto con Guy Laliberté. [1] [2] [3] [4] Su hijo, Olivier Rochette, era un técnico de Cirque du Soleil que falleció en noviembre de 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...
12 de dic. de 2013 · Para conseguir dinero, Laliberte convenció a su socio, Ste-Croix, de caminar unos 90 kilómetros en zancos.
Al comienzo de los 1980, un grupo de artistas fundado por Gilles Ste-Croix llevó su talento a las calles de Baie-Saint-Paul, una villa encantadora en las costas del río St. Laurent cerca de la ciudad de Quebec.
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.
At the dawn of the 1980’s, a troupe of performers founded by Gilles Ste-Croix took their talent to the streets of Baie-Saint-Paul, a charming village on the shores of the St. Laurent River near Quebec City.
Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, Montreal, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 June 1984 by former street performers Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix. Originating as a performing troupe called Les Échassiers (IPA: [lez‿eʃasje]; "The Stilt Walkers"), they toured Quebec in various forms between 1979 and 1983.
