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Enter a world unlike any other, where a dozen languages are
spoken and scores of disciplines perfected -- or invented;
intimate and inscrutable, artistic and athletic, courageous and
committed: the private world of the performers in the Cirque du
Soleil. And of the hundreds of artists the Cirque employs, none
is more fascinating than Olga Sidorova, who ran away from
Siberia at age fourteen to follow her dreams to fly.
When Mark Schreiber met her in March 2002, she inspired his own
global odyssey, following the European Tour of Saltimbanco,
assisting her after knee surgery at the Cirque's training studio
in Montreal, even helping a pair of contortionists apartment
hunt in Las Vegas. Along the way she unraveled her life story,
and introduced him to many other cast members, who revealed
their histories and passions, including a juggling prodigy, twin
trapezists, a veteran acrobat whose family fled from Cambodia, a
clown from Harlem, and an Olympic gymnast.
Dreams of the Solo Trapeze: Offstage with the Cirque du Soleil
is not one book but many: non-fiction novel, biography, cultural
history, travel narrative, and love story. Its aim is to
discover and pay tribute to these magnificent artists in a
manner that reflects the Cirque's own spontaneousness,
originality and daring. [Inside Front Cover]
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| Release Date -- | Dec.20.2004 (USA) |
| -- | Jan.01.2005 (CAN) |
| -- | Jan.30.2005 (JP/EU) |
| Dimensions -- | 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2 in |
| # of Pages -- | 317 pages |
| SRP -- | $19.95 USD |
| ISBN-10 -- | 09-7546-640-2 |
| ISBN-13 -- | 978-09-7546-640-7 |
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