Guy Laliberte
Guy Laliberte was raised in the small town of St. Bruno in Quebec City, to a middle-class family, who left home at the young age of 18 to hitchhike across Europe why working as a street performer. While on his travels with little amount of cash, he earned his riches in experience, and met many other sidewalk showmen along the alleyways around the major tourist attraction areas. He learned fire breathing and stilt walking, working for small amounts of cash to pay for the basics. Laliberte being an accordionist, a stilt-walker and a fire-eater, he founded Quebec’s first Internationally renowned circus.
Cirque du Soleil
A bold innovator, Guy Laliberte recognized and cultivated the talents of street performers and created what is known as Cirque du Soleil in 1984. He was the first person to mobilize the marriage of cultures, artistic and acrobatic discipline that is the trademark of Cirque du Soleil. The story of Cirque du Soleil is an interesting one. Initially, “It was just an adventure, and I was planning to go back to school and have a regular life,” Laliberte stated in a recent interview. But, he became so captivated with the lifestyle, that he observed it as an art form of perfection. On his return to Quebec City, he was beginning to organize parties, events, and street festivals out of a hostel. Then in 1984, he received a contract from the government of Quebec, to stage a show for Quebec’s 450th anniversary celebration. It was only a one-shot deal, and they were already off to a rough start, as Laliberte had said, “We had every problem starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we surv...
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...ibution towards a collective effort. Without losing anyone's individual strengths. The head clown makes sure he recognizes these strengths, and celebrates them. The head clown also recognizes mistakes, learns from them and does not repeat them.” Through this, it is evident that Laliberte’s leadership style is that he understands that it is important to recognize strengths and weaknesses within the acts. The employees in the show are to depend on each other and the show works well, when all the acts work well together. He shows collaboration and understanding in his leadership style and it works for him. Consequently, Guy Laliberte is a very successful businessman who does not like to give up, takes risks, and goes for the dreams that he wants. Through his leadership style of being Collaborative Leader, he able to attain these dreams, and continues to be successful.
Over the years, the Calle Ocho festival has brought hundreds of smiles to thousands of people. Behind the smiles, the laughter, and the dances, there is a serious side to the festivities. In the beginning, Willy Bermello just wanted a little backyard get-together that would bring neighbors closer, but the festival turned into something much, much bigger. With the festival's growth and inevitable commercialization, Bermello increasingly felt that its importance was being forgotten. He wanted to let people know this was more than just a big party. He wanted people of different races and different ethnicities to be able to feel comfortable with each other, and not just for one day. He wanted Calle Ocho's influence felt throughout the year.
Lin-Manuel Miranda summed up his feelings about art in an interview: "The ultimate way art can be political is that I think it engenders empathy which is the thing politicians can't seem to do" (Watson). Throughout history, many forms of art have created new ideas in our society and will continue to challenge new ways of thinking and how we communicate with one another. In the last fifteen years, artist Lin-Manuel Miranda has written two Broadway Musicals that have had a major impact on how we historically view our country. By writing stories based on the traditional ideas of the "American Dream" and contemporizing the history of our nation's birth, he has captivated a broad and diverse audience. Lin-Manuel's genius, coupled with his passion for the arts, plays an integral role on how we should view our nation's history, to uphold American values for all of us, not just some of us.
A circus is a magical place where it seems like nothing negative exists. Though accidents in the circus are rare, they happen. For example, in June of 2013, “ Aerialist Sara Gyyard Guillot, 31, fell 94 feet in Las Vegas and died before she got to the hospital” (providence.journal.com). Even more stories of death-defying acts ending in certain death have appeared over the years. Circuses can fill people with joy, but tragedy can strike at any moment. Just like Sara Guillot, the narrator’s mother in the story “The Leap” by Louise Erdrich, she thrived in the life of a circus performer. In the story, the reader walks through the misfortune of wind striking a circus performance, the narrator defines the astonishing achievement of her mother and how her mother handled her life even after the lightning struck. The narrator likewise demonstrates to the reader why she traveled back home to her mother using the literary element personification. In the story, “ The Leap” by Louise Erdrich, personification assists to
Gabriel Faure was a French Romantic Composer, pianist, teacher and an organist. He was a very influential composer and his style of composition influenced many of the 20th century composers. He was one of the most prominent French composers of his era. Faure was known as one of the French master of the art song. He was awarded a scholarship to École de Musique Classique et Religieuse. His tutors respectively included; Clément Loret, Louis Dietsch, Xavier Wackenthaler, Saint-Saëns and Niedermeyer. Faure took up the post of an organist at the church of Saint-Sauveur at Rennes in Brittany. After the Franco-Prussian war Faure left France and took up teaching in Switzerland.
On leadership is a book which deserve to be read by us. Although this book use a precise formation to help us to examine a widely comprehensive aspects of the leadership, there are some drawbacks. Gardner cited different examples to talk about leadership, but just in a particular area, that is political area. So,
Li’s passion for ballet shows on and off stage through his arabesques, flexibility, fouettés, grande jeté and pirouettes that were nothing less than perfection. I understood that becoming a dancer requires commitment, passion and having a great memory as there’s many moves, routines and ballet terms that you need to learn. When I was performing on stage, I felt free and that I could own the stage as it felt like it was my second home. I also felt complete within myself just as Li felt. To perform on stage, you need to be light and graceful along with connecting to the music using precise steps, poses and formal gestures. The film used dance, music, scenery, and costumes to portray a story characterised by Li’s dance. Classical ballet dancers require the utmost grace and I’ve found that you also need a tremendous level of concentration and memory. This portrays when his choreographer Ben Stevenson asked Li Cunxin to replace the main male role due to an injury on the day of the performance to memorise new dances and perform them in front of an enormous crowd. Many of my performances have been in a group where we all need to be in sync and work together. This film highlighted that in order to become a professional ballet dancer, you have to prepare to work extremely hard no matter how gruelling the schedule is in order to
...ties and differences of the leadership of Steve Jobs and Fr. Jose Arizmendiarrieta that the leadership required for organisations to succeed is unique to the goals and definition of success portrayed by the leader. Their leadership styles were reflected in the organisations development and it can be seen why leadership in organisations is of such importance. What is also clear is that there is no right or wrong way to lead – Fr Jose achieved a sustainable profitable cooperative, Jobs archived a highly profitable company. The leadership practice used needs to fit the organisations vision, the needs of the stakeholders, and be ingrained into followers. The followers need to buy in to the leader’s vision and goals and play their part in implementing the steps required for success. The leader is ultimately responsible for guiding the followers along the path to success.
The leadership fable, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, examines the leadership qualities and professional dialogue that makes teams effective. Throughout the novel, Lencioni provides an effectual illustration to lead a professional team to utilize open dialogue, including conflict, to reach their goals. Leadership is a multi-faceted topic, which requires much collaboration, research, and a never-ending search to find and refine oneself; hence, it is vital to surround and immerse oneself in literature from profound leaders and to mold your leadership style as a model for personal change to effectively engage in future relationships with others. When one practices leadership
In 1989, Andrew Goldstein was admitted to a psychiatric hospital from a physical altercation with his mother; there he was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. In 1999, Andrew Goldstein, at a New York subway killed Kendra Webdale by pushing her into an oncoming train. Three weeks before the fatal altercation with Kendra Webdale, Andrew Goldstein was released, after committing himself to a New York hospital. Goldstein committed himself into the hospital due to “severe schizophrenia” (Frontline, A Case of Insanity). Even though the hospital, that Goldstein was released from, noted in their records that Goldstein was described as “thought-disordered,” “delusional,” and “psychotic” (Frontline) nonetheless, he was still release and referred to an outpatient therapy, after less than a month of being there.
In “The Old Acrobat,” the flanuer is lured by the naturalistic and crude appearances of the street performers caused by society’s need for abstract stimulation. The acrobat is physically and mentally drained from performing straining and exhausting tasks for the gratification of others. The dominant scent at the carnival is “a frying odor”2 which hints that the performers are sacrificing themselves and literally “frying” their souls away to satisfy their hungry audiences. Even the acrobat is described as being “illuminated all too well by two burned-down candles”3 which are “dripping and smoking.”4 There is a sense of...
Risk and uncertainty— asking for $1 million from Quebec's government to put on a show together to celebrate 450th Anniversary of the city’s founding. To a mixture, as Dragone calls it, a “transdisciplinary experience” that has become Cirque du Soleil brand trademark with just the right blend of circus, live music, theater, and stagecrafters. After Quebec, Laliberte, and Gauthier, with risk and uncertainty, took their show and went to an Arts Festival in Los Angeles and with a standing ovation, Cirque du Soleil became a formidable organization of talent. The company’s future depends on its ability to sustain the culture of risk taking. The owners made sure that their brand would not be just another drop of water lost in the waves of the ocean; want they wanted was for their outstanding performers to standout and be the crest of the wave. (Kreitner & Cassidy, pp. 234-236)
Louis Zambrini, track star, war hero, and inspirational speaker. Even though he accomplished so much, he struggled with one challenge. Louis Zambrini had to figure out what his purpose in life was on multiple occasions. When his family moved from Italy to the United States, he was just a child; however, he was extremely mischievous. He would steal anything he could get his hands on, and fight with anyone who dared cross him. Louis spent his life surviving one extraordinary event after another. No one had faith in him (including Louis) except for one person; his brother Pete. After searching, he finally came to find his own faith. The meaning of his life was about being empowered by forgiveness and figuring out he could exceed the expectations of others by controlling his destiny and happiness.
Oswald, Laura. Jean Genet and the Semiotics of Performance. United States of America: Indiana University Press, 1989. Print.
It holds that various situations require different leadership styles to result in effective outcomes. According to this school of thought, it is the assessment of the competence, as well as the commitment of the leader’s subjects that makes the whole practice a success. As a result, a leader should access the two factors before deciding on either directive or supportive form of management.
Leadership has been defined as mobilizing the workforce towards training organizational goals (Yukl, 1998). The style of the leader is considered to be important in achieving organizational goals and therefore it is important to know your own leadership style as the leadership style will impact on the performance among subordinates (Berson et al., 2001). However this does not mean the leadership style alone will be responsible for all the performance of workers and attainment of goals.