I am one, I am many I am as we are - eternal, out of time I am science, magic, chimeric I am no one, I am legion I am Saltimbanco

Premiere: April 23, 1992 (Tour 1) January 7, 1999 (Tour 2) July 31, 2007 (Arena) Type: Touring / Arena Director: Franco Dragone Composer: René Dupéré Location: North American Tour

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Saltimbanco is a mix of both color and texture with many talented members to its troupe - a troupe forever exploring new frontiers for Cirque du Soleil. In its lifetime, Saltimbanco has had two final curtain calls, and just as many rebirths, making this magnificent show one of the most prolific in Cirque's repertoire. Forever the ardant ambassador, Saltimbanco's light has touched many shores during its lengthy history, including:

Saltimbanco celebrates life. Created as an antidote to the violence and despair typical of the 20th century, this phantasmagorical show proposes a new vision of urbanity, overflowing with optimism and happiness. Saltimbanco is not linear; rather, it is a kaleidoscope, an adventure in which anything can happen. Saltimbanco has its own language-a soul expressed through the voice, the body and music.

The framework of Saltimbanco, the characters, like all human beings, are born with nothing. These are the Worms, at the very base of society. All similar in appearance yet different one from the other, they must with time adapt themselves to their environment. Thus, as the show goes on, they embody various types of social characters, hoping to one day accede to the rank of Baroque, a cast of visionaries. The Baroques constitute the most important family in the world of Saltimbanco. Armed with a deeply perceptive vision of the world and sleeping under bridges, the Baroques, throughout the fable, reveal the countless contradictions of our civilization where imagination has not yet taken power.

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Spirit and body, shadow and light, between earth and sky I tumble, spinning arabesques, kaleidoscope fantasy. I am nobile and rogue, mortal and sorcerer, fire and water, power and grace. Sublime and grotesque, somber and afire, I entrance, mesmerize, fusing madness and wisdom, primordial chaos. ~~ I am celestial, and eerie, playful and mischievous, subtle and striking, magnificent, androgynous. Soaring, teetering, slithering, I am fluid, poetic, hypnotic. Dancing, whirling, flying, I am rebellious, defiant, explosive. ~~ I am one, I am many, I am as we are - eternal, out of time. I am science and magic, chimeric etheral. I come from nowhere. I come from everywhere. ~~ But... I am creature of neither fantasy nor reality, neither incantation nor dream. I am neither man nor woman, god nor demon, song nor story. I am no one, I am legion. I am Saltimbanco.