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Cirque du Soleil ("Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company.

It is the largest theatrical producer in the world.

Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix.

A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, unicyclists, as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists.

The term 'circus' also describes the performance which has followed various formats through its 250-year modern history.

Philip Astley is credited with being the 'father' of the modern circus when he opened the first circus in 1768 in England.

Early circuses were almost exclusively demonstrations of equestrian skills with a few other types of acts to link the horsemanship performances.

Performances developed significantly through the next fifty years, with large scale theatrical battle reenactments becoming a significant feature.

The 'traditional' format, whereby a ringmaster introduces a varied selection of acts that mostly perform choreographed acts to traditional music, developed in the latter part of 19th century and continued almost universally to be the main style of circus up until the 1970s.

A ticket is a voucher that indicates that one has paid for admission to an event or establishment such as a theatre, amusement park or tourist attraction, or permission to travel on a vehicle (such as with an airline ticket, bus ticket or train ticket) typically because one has paid the fare.

A ticket may be free, and serve simply as a proof of reservation.

An arena is an enclosed area, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events.

The word derives from Latin harena, a particularly fine/smooth sand used to absorb blood in ancient arenas such as the Colosseum in Rome.

It is composed of a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for spectators.

The key feature of an arena is that the event space is the lowest point, allowing for maximum visibility.

Arenas are usually designed to accommodate a large number of spectators.

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance.

Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience.

The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe").