Viva Elvis (Cirque du Soleil)
Viva Elvis was the seventh resident Cirque du Soleil show on the Las Vegas Strip.
It resided at the Aria Resort& Casino and premiered on February 19, 2010.
The show closed on August 31, 2012.
Cirque du Soleil partnered with Elvis Presley Enterprises to produce this show, similar to how they partnered with The Beatles' Apple Corps Ltd to produce the resident show" Love" at the Mirage.
CKX, Inc., the company that owns the rights to Elvis Presley's name, likeness, and music publishing, signed an agreement to have Cirque du Soleil create the Elvis- themed residency show.
The gala premiere was originally scheduled for January 2010 on what would have been Elvis' 75th birthday, but was postponed until February 19, 2010.
CKX and Cirque du Soleil eventually intended to develop additional touring shows and multimedia interactive" Elvis Experiences" throughout the world.
Benoît Jutras
Benoît Jutras( born 1963) is a Canadian composer.
Jutras is best known for his work with the Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil, first as music director and later as composer for several of the company's contemporary circus shows.
Jutras' music often blends eclectic influences, including world beat, classical, rock, trip hop, and electronica.
His scores for Cirque du Soleil shows include" OMystèreQuidam", and" La Nouba".
His work outside of Cirque du Soleil has included original soundtracks for" Le Rêve"( a show at the Wynn resort in Las Vegas), the" Glow in the Park Parade"( a nighttime parade at Six Flags theme parks), and" The House of Dancing Water"( a show at the City of Dreams resort in Macau).
He has also composed for film and television.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Jutras now resides in Barbados.
He has one daughter, Audrey Brisson- Jutras, who performed and sang in" Quidam" as the principal character Zoé.
( Her performance can be seen on the DVD that Cirque du Soleil has released of the show.)
Jutras also has a brother, François Jutras.
His sister- in- law is Roxane Potvin, lead singer for the Cirque du Soleil show" O".
" With globalization, a merging of musical styles is certain and the final objective is not to simply extract what is obvious but to merge the real essence of each style in order to create something authentic, innovative and fun."
— Benoît Jutras
Delirium (Cirque du Soleil)
Delirium was a touring multimedia stage show by Cirque du Soleil featuring live music, video projections, and performances by acrobats and other circus performers.
The production featured remixes of existing Cirque du Soleil music.
The show premiered on January 26, 2006 and had its final performance in London, England on April 20, 2008.
" Delirium" was the first of Cirque du Soleil's productions designed to be presented in arenas outside Japan( first was" Fascination" in 1992, which was only presented in Japan); all the company's previous stage productions outside Japan had been toured with their own large, custom- built tent( referred to as the' big top' or' grand chapiteau') or were permanent shows performed in specially designed theatres.
" Delirium", as Cirque du Soleil's first significant experiment with arena venues, eventually helped pave the way for the company's subsequent show- by- show conversion of its older big top productions( e.g." SaltimbancoAlegríaQuidamDralion", and" Varekai") to a more cost-effective arena format.
Nicola Willis
Nicola Willis( born 13 March 1985 in Southend- on- Sea) is a former British female artistic gymnast.
She represented Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
She also competed for England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
At the 2004 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships she finished with the British team 5th in the team event.
After retiring from competitive gymnastics, she joined Cirque Du Soleil and performed with them on Cirque Du Soleil shows Saltimbanco and La Nouba.
Felix Cane
Felix Cane( born 9 December 1984) is an Australian professional pole dancer, pole instructor and international champion pole dancer.
Felix Cane won her first title, Miss Pole Dance Australia 2006 after only eight months of pole dancing.
The rules of Miss Pole Dance Australia stipulate a winner can not enter the year after and Felix was a judge instead for 2007.
Cane has a certification program for pole dancing instructors and has released an application in Apple ’s ‘ App Store ’ and Google ’s ‘ Google Play ’ store with Adam Jay Photography titled Pocket Pole Studio.
Cane performed in Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity, a resident cabaret- style show at the New York- New York Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
It is the first" adult- themed" Cirque du Soleil show, billed as" The Sensual Side of Cirque du Soleil" or" Another side of Cirque du Soleil".
She featured in a solo pole performance with the Cirque du Soleil tribute to.
Cane now runs a world- class pole dancing studio, Felix Cane Academy( opened 2016 in Malaga, Western Australia), to teach the men and women their talent ’s that they have not yet discovered.
The staff, Georgie D’ Lish, Helen Liu, Amber Mae, Julie Moran, Danica
Pirga, Kat Smithers, Vicki Vale, Nicole Weston and Jing- Yun Wong, work behind the scenes to truly express the art and talent inside of the beautiful, athletic and sexy men and women.
She also runs her own international competition, Felix Cane Pole Championships( commenced 2015), displaying the talents of peak male and female pole dancers around the world in her home town of Perth, Western Australia.
Gilles Ste-Croix
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, was a technician with Cirque du Soleil who was killed by a blow to the head from an aerial lift in an on- set accident in November 2016.
Andrew Adamson
Andrew Ralph Adamson (born 1 December 1966) is a New Zealand film director, producer and screenwriter based mainly in Los Angeles, where he made the animation films, "Shrek" and "Shrek 2" for which he received an Academy Award win.
He was director, executive producer, and scriptwriter for the 2005 production of .
He also worked on the movies "Batman Forever" and "Batman & Robin" as a visual effects supervisor.
He was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours.
Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
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Worlds Away is a 2012 American 3D family fantasy film directed by Andrew Adamson.
The film premiered on October 20, 2012 at the Tokyo International Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States on December 21, 2012.
Distributed worldwide by Paramount Pictures on December 21, 2012, the film tells the story of a girl named Mia going to a traveling circus and falling in love with its main attraction, the Aerialist.
After the Aerialist falls during his act, he and Mia are transported to another world where each encounter the different worlds of Cirque du Soleil.
It stars Erica Linz and Igor Zaripov as the main characters and incorporates acts from O, Mystère, Kà, Love, Zumanity, Criss Angel Believe, and Viva Elvis, some of the Cirque du Soleil shows that were running in Las Vegas in 2011.
Eels performed a song titled "Calling for Your Love" for the movie.
Franco Dragone
Franco Dragone( born 1952) is an Italian theatre director.
He is the founder and artistic director of Dragone, a creative company specializing in the creation of large- scale theatre shows.
He is also known for his work with Cirque du Soleil and Celine Dion.
CNN says that Dragone was" one of the key architects of Cirque du Soleil's theatrical style", and that" while Cirque du Soleil's signature was contemporary circus, Dragone's solo work embodies more theater, dance -- and, of course, water" through the use of his" trademark" aquatic stages.
Zumanity (Cirque du Soleil)
Zumanity is a resident cabaret- style show by Cirque du Soleil at the New York- New York Hotel& Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
The production was unveiled on September 20, 2003( previews started on August 14, 2003).
It is the first" adult- themed" Cirque du Soleil show, billed as" the sensual side of Cirque du Soleil" or" another side of Cirque du Soleil".
Created by René Richard Cyr and Dominic Champagne," Zumanity" is a departure from the standard Cirque format.
Intended to be for mature adult audiences only, this show is centered on erotic song, dance, acrobatics and comedy.
The inspiration to create" Zumanity" came from multiple sources.
Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté had been offered the chance to create two new shows in Las Vegas, and wanted something completely new and original rather than multiple similar shows that would cannibalize off of each other's sales and audiences.
Another reason was that the New York- New York Hotel and Casino wanted to make their entertainment appear more" trendy".
The hotel liked the concept of a more adult Cirque du Soleil performance.
Laliberté admits that the biggest reason to produce this show was the chance to create something with riskier subject matter.
He was interested in the idea of creating a show that explored human sexuality, something that was at complete odds with the other, more family- oriented Cirque du Soleil shows.
" Our previous shows have all been family- oriented and politically correct, which is great," Laliberté said," but we're human beings, we wo n't hide it.
We're a bunch of happy campers.
We like to live new experiences.
" Zumanity" deals with some of those experiences."

Question: What nationality is the director of film Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away?
Answer: New Zealand