The circus, Cirque du Soleil, began ... Montreal, Canada. It was started ... the Canadian Guy Laliberte in 1984. When heleft college, Lalaberte travelled around Europe and earned money ... music in the streets. Not long after he returned home, he started Cirque with ... friend, Daniel Gauthier. During the 1990s, Cirque grew quickly. It now does shows ... over the world and the number of people working for it has grown from 73 to ... than 3500.
The Cirque does not have any animals, but ... is music and dance and ... show tells a story. One show, ... is called Varian, is about a man who could fly. The show starts with him falling from the sky and tells the story of how he ... to learn to fly again.