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CIRQUE IT OUT p.16 /// FAN EXPO EXPOSED p.19
Under
the Big Top
e Force is strong at
Vancouver Fan Expo
by Michael Small
WHEN CIRQUE DU SOLEIL'S TOTEM pitches its
unmistakable blue-and-yellow striped tent at
Concord Pacifi c Place near Olympic Village this
spring, Vancouverites will be treated to the world's
premier circus experience: powerful, nimble bodies
performing routines that look like they belong in
e Matrix while wearing costumes that are worth
more than your entire wardrobe. But what specta-
tors won't see are the years of planning, thousands
of man-hours, and hundreds of people behind the
scenes who make a show like TOTEM – where
impossible things occur seemingly every other
moment – possible. BCLiving travelled to the Cirque
du Soleil headquarters in Montreal to pull back the
curtain on what's in store for Vancouver.
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