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Saltimbanco was a Cirque du Soleil show which ran from 1992 to 2006 in its original form.
Saltimbanco was a touring show by Cirque du Soleil. Saltimbanco ran from 1992 to 2006 in its original form, performed under a large circus tent called the Grand Chapiteau; its last performance in that form was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 10, 2006. A new adaptation of the show started touring North America on July 31, 2007, with its first stop in London, Ontario, Canada. The new version was staged in arenas with fewer performances in each city it visited. The new version closed at the end of 2012.
Saltimbanco may also refer to:
- Les saltimbanques 1899 comic opera by Louis Ganne
- Les Saltimbanques (Dumersan), an 1838 farce désopilante by Théophile Marion Dumersan
- La famille de saltimbanques , 1905 painting by Pablo Picasso
- "The Saltimbanques," a 2001 short horror story by Terry Dowling
For Pablo Picasso's 1905 painting, see La famille de saltimbanques
Théophile Marion Dumersan was a French writer of plays, vaudevilles, poetry, novels, chanson collections, librettos, and novels, as well as a numismatist and curator attached to the Cabinet des médailles et antiques of the Bibliothèque royale.
Terence William (Terry) Dowling, is an Australian writer and journalist. He writes primarily speculative fiction and dark fantasy though he considers himself an "imagier" – one who imagines, a term which liberates his writing from the constraints of specific genres. He has been called "among the best-loved local writers and most-awarded in and out of Australia, a writer who stubbornly hews his own path ."
