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  Quidam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quidam is said to be the embodiment of both everyone and no one at the same time.
Quidam's soundtrack was composed by Benoît Jutrás, and has been released in three editions featuring additional songs, alternative new cover designs, and higher quality sounds.
Quidam's 3000th performance was the 1:00 show on 7-31-2004 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quidam   (3829 words)

  
 THE HORSE MAGAZINE
Quidam was himself a jumping star; a member of the French Olympic Team, and fourth individually at the Barcelona Olympic Games with Herve Godignon.
Quidam is the kind of horse that appeals to me. He is a perfect beauty.
Quidam’s pre-eminence as a sire was confirmed at the 2002 WEG in Jerez, where he was the sire of more showjumping participants than any other stallion.
www.horsemagazine.com /BREEDINGBARN/GREAT_STALLIONS/quidamderevel/quidamderevel.html   (468 words)

  
 Quidam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Quidam is directed by Franco Dragone, a production that is more thoroughly scripted than previous shows and integrates performance and theatricality to a greater extent.
She is joined by a joyful companion (Karl Baumann) as well as another character (John Gilkey), more mysterious, who will attempt to seduce her with the marvelous, the unsettling, and the terrifying.
The man is Mathieu Lavoie, and the child is the composer's daughter, Audrey Brisson-Jutras who is eleven years old and a singer and musician in her own right, Audrey will accompany the troup during its long travels throughout North America.
members.tripod.com /~quidam2/cdsquidam.htm   (317 words)

  
 Quidam: Theatre: Joseph Bowen: CenterstageChicago.com
Quidam is a child's fantasy, in which a little girl conjures up a life different from her ordinary home life, where her parents exist in a world of their own.
Quidam is a wakeup call for those people who are approaching the millennium with petty concerns.
Quidam is a non-stop event with one intermission, and there are no popcorn vendors roaming the aisles.
centerstage.net /theatre/articles/quidam.html   (551 words)

  
 'Quidam' succeeds at outrageousness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
"Quidam," the newest and darkest production of Cirque du Soleil, is like a beautiful dream from which you never want to wake.
"Quidam" is a Latin word whose meaning the troupe describes as an ordinary person--a silent figure lost in our anonymous society.
"Quidam" is the most intense and dark of the nine Cirque du Soleil shows, conveying dramatic emotions like loneliness and suffering in its variety of acts.
www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V129/N24/07-quidam.24d.html   (564 words)

  
 Ground and Sky review - Quidam - self-titled
In fact, there are so many influences at work here that it's amazing that Quidam manage to create a distinct sound of their own.
Quidam also get both "Chobym..." and "Gieboka Rzeka" to work their way to a climax with as much expertise as some of bigger names in progressive rock.
Overall, Quidam presents a neo-proggy sound, with orchestral swashes on digital keyboards (not as soulless as it sounds, actually) and some ornate, generally pleasing, yet conservative musical flourishes.
www.progreviews.com /reviews/display.php?rev=qui-qui   (646 words)

  
 Quidam Baja Prog—Live In Mexico '99 - Review at Musical Discoveries
The third album and fourth commercial release from Polish symphonic progressive rock band Quidam is extracted from their tremendous live performance recorded at Baja Prog in March 1999.
Those who were lucky to see Quidam at a concert claim that having a direct contact with the audience, we perform much better than in studio.
Camel is honoured with Quidam's own rendition of "Rhayader/Rhayader Goes To Town" (also performed live on their EP) and a tribute to Genesis is made in the guitar solo taken from "Firth of Fifth" in their live performance of "Sanktuarium" ("Sanctuary"), originally recorded on their debut album.
www.musicaldiscoveries.com /reviews/qbplim.htm   (1267 words)

  
 Quidam - Biografy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Quidam is a tiny existence, a blood reaction devoid of reason, an useless and necesary motive, a new impulse to find little sensations.
Quidam doesn’t plan its originality, it's a balance between new perspectives and influencies from a long and pleasent exposition of music with a clear demonstration of its reasons.
Quidam’s music style will be determinated by the listener.
www.quidamcave.com /en/biogra.htm   (313 words)

  
 The music technology of Quidam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
We were so impressed that we wanted to find out what they had in store for Quidam, a brand new show with a brand new composer.
"In Quidam, there are a lot of sequences -- the sounds are more industrial." The use of sequences in a performance of this nature is made possible by a Roland XP-80 Music Workstation and its Realtime Phrase Sequencing (RPS) functions.
Quidam is nearing the end of its three-year North American tour.
www.cc.utah.edu /~gem16460/cirquedusoleil/quidam_roland.html   (891 words)

  
 Cirque du Soleil Quidam
Cirque du Soleil is French for "Circus of the Sun," and the Montreal-based troupe has been visiting the Sunshine State since 1989, when its tour of We Reinvent the Circus played Miami.
Artists of Quidam, interviewed in Cleveland, where the show was in October.
The elite performers in Quidam have a team of people to help ease their many body aches.
www.sptimes.com /2002/webspecials02/quidam   (201 words)

  
 Virtual Quidam
The world of Quidam seems at times to be the product of her imagination.
Quidam — The tall, headless man who personifies anonymity; when Zoë borrows his hat, she enters a surreal dreamworld that is a distorted mirror of our world.
Quidam (the faceless man himself) walks by in the background with a bounce in his step.
www.cc.utah.edu /~gem16460/cirquedusoleil/walkthru.html   (4761 words)

  
 PROGRESSIVEWORLD.NET: OTHER VIEWS
Quidam come from Poland and this, their debut album, was my Christmas pressy from Kev Rowland, editor of Feedback {Thanks Kev!}.
All in all, Quidam is a most excellent album. I cannot rate it highly enough. To me this is everything that classic progressive music should be. I suppose more cynical critics might say that Quidam hardly break any new innovative ground.
Quidam (AMS 005R) is available on the Polish Ars Mundi label. It is priced up at %13-50 in the GFT catalogue. If you have trouble getting hold of it, you can contact Ars Mundi directly at 00-002 Warszawa, ul.
www.progressiveworld.net /quidam.html   (341 words)

  
 Quidam - Sny Aniolow (Angel's Dreams) Review at Musical Discoveries
From Poland and fronted by the lovely female lead vocalist Emila Derkowska singing exclusively in Polish, Quidam are an outstanding six person band that operate well within the progressive spectrum a broad range of modern sounds.
She is also fully credited on the Quidam album but has been omitted from the new album.
When the instrumentals come in to conclude the song, it's evident that Quidam have the ability to be among the best progressive bands performing today.
www.musicaldiscoveries.com /reviews/quidam.htm   (960 words)

  
 Cirque du Soleil's traveling road show, Quidam; read www.jetsettersmagazine.com
Quidam, pronounced “key-dahm,” is a Latin word for an anonymous passerby, a nameless face in the crowd living lost.
The world of Quidam is director Franco Dragone’s latest creation in a series of Cirque du Soleil productions that have wowed more than 50 million spectators in almost 100 cities across four continents.
Although Quidam features its own crazy clowns, Toto and Ambrose, it is a far cry from the bearded lady and dancing bear clichés.
www.jetsettersmagazine.com /archive/jetezine/shows/quidam/quidam.html   (969 words)

  
 Quidam - Cirque du Soleil official website - intro
Quidam: a nameless passer-by, a solitary figure lingering on a street corner, a person rushing past.
A young girl fumes; she has already seen everything there is to see, and her world has lost all meaning.
She is joined by a joyful companion as well as another character, more mysterious, who will attempt to seduce her with the marvelous, the unsettling, and the terrifying.
www.cirquedusoleil.com /CirqueDuSoleil/en/showstickets/quidam/intro/intro.htm   (136 words)

  
 N-Sided - Quidam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
QUIDAM offers you advanced tools for sculpting and retouching to personalize your creations to the last detail, explore a range of expressions, or even create your own characters.
QUIDAM is the ideal solution to sketch out principal characters in preproduction, and quickly populate your 3D universe (video games, animated series, and cinema) with varied optimized characters.
QUIDAM can produce high quality images, accompanied with alpha channels (masks, shadows) that are ready for retouching and easy integration into the graphic artist's layout...
www.n-sided.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10&Itemid=14&lang=en   (622 words)

  
 Quidam: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Time Beneath the Sky is Quidam's first studio album in four years.
After such a gap, one expects change and change there is. After a relatively pop-sounding CD (1998's Sny Aniolów), the group comes back to a more overtly progressive rock sound -- i.e., songs are more complex and include instrumental developments.
In March 1999, the Polish group Quidam performed at the progressive rock festival Baja Prog in Mexico.
www.music.com /group/quidam/1   (431 words)

  
 Quidam - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Quidam's live shows, fronted by the charismatic Derkowska, gained local fame.
The album was released by Rock-Serwis in Poland and Musea in France, the latter under the title Angels' Dreams with re-recorded English vocals.
Meanwhile, the relationship between Quidam and Camel developed in unexpected ways as bassist Colin Bass hired the group to open for him and back him up during his European tour promoting his solo album Outcast of the Islands.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,1753944,00.html   (613 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Cirque Du Soleil - Quidam [1999]: DVD: David Mallet,John Gilkey,Franco Dragone,Chris Lashua,Carmita ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Quidam revolves around an Everychild, living with self-absorbed (and deliberately archetypal) parents, who is whisked away to a vividly surreal world where Cirque's remarkable acrobats and artists take literal flight.
Quidam can't quite achieve the sheer, enveloping wonder that its theatrical source does, but for fans of Cirque du Soleil's unique performance art, this latest presentation sustains the troupe's magic.
I was introduced to Quidam by a friend who had seen the show in Los Angeles.
www.amazon.co.uk /Cirque-Du-Soleil-David-Mallet/dp/B0000558PC   (1176 words)

  
 Cirque's 'Quidam' mystery to unfold Jan. 19 in Del Mar North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Except for "Saltimbanco," which launched in 1992, "Quidam" is the oldest Cirque show on the road.
The story involves a lonely young girl named Zoe who can see into a dark, mysterious parallel world named Quidam (a Latin word meaning anonymous passer-by), where the dead walk around in a dreamlike state, bodiless souls float about the streets and automatonlike beings are on the march.
Although many of the performers in "Quidam" have been with the show since its formation in April 1996, the show itself has gone through a gradual transformation.
www.nctimes.com /articles/2006/01/18/entertainment/theater/11806104252.txt   (888 words)

  
 Ground and Sky review - Quidam - The Time Beneath the Sky
Where Quidam do take a sharp left turn, however, is in their cover of the Led Zeppelin track "No Quarter".
Quidam's version manages to get the atmosphere almost right and improves the dull sections, but fails with the song's strongest point, the guitar riff.
This is another pretty solid release from Quidam, but for some reason leaves me less satisfied than their previous two, perhaps because the best moments here are not as outstanding.
www.progreviews.com /reviews/display.php?rev=qui-ttbts   (405 words)

  
 QUIDAM Quidam reviews and MP3
Quidam entered into the music business with their namesake album...
In the instrumental department, most solos are played by the guitar and the flute, but the major responsibilities lay in the hands of keyboardist Florek, since he's in charge of supporting the main harmonies, chords, orchestral textures and layers.
The most dominant instruments in Quidam’s music are both the keyboards and the guitar but they also use nicely the flute and especially the cello.
www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=1140   (1618 words)

  
 Cirque Du Soleil - Quidam Tickets - Cheap Cirque Du Soleil - Quidam Theater Shows Tickets At Onlineseats
She is a disillusioned soul entering the world Quidam, who is the quintessential presence.
'Quidam's' is more energetic and engrossing than 'Algeria.' Not to say that 'Algeria' was not a beauty to watch but that 'Quidam' is still a better treat.
The ticket inventory is updated on a hourly basis.However,if the tickets you wish to purchase are no longer available, we will contact you immediately and you will be given other options or you may choose an alternative set of tickets that we wil try to offer similar to the price range of your original order.
www.onlineseats.com /theater/cirque-du-soleil-quidam-tickets/index.asp   (837 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Quidam: Music: Cirque du Soleil,Benoit Jutras,J. Corcoran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It is so evident from this CD why "Quidam" has been such a huge success.
A while later they were showing Quidam at my city, but unfortunately I didn't have enough time to go by the time I figured out it was here.
This CD gives a glimpse into the experience of Quidam, a quite inspirational cd- that I can listen to over and over and still feel touched by it's intensity, as if I just left the show.
www.amazon.com /Quidam-Cirque-du-Soleil/dp/B000003G5M   (1214 words)

  
 PROGRESSIVEWORLD.NET: REVIEWS BY IGOR ITALIANI
In fact it's been almost a week that I've been mesmerized by the beautiful voice of Emila Derkowska and the playing of her comrades, who clearly possess great aptitude in reinventing 'good old' progressive rock.
Well, to be honest Quidam go even further, as this record doesn't merely reproduce the magic sound of classic acts like Yes or Genesis, but focuses more on stunning atmospheric parts, which are the real strength of the band.
Yet the roots of the sextet aren't forgotten either, as the joyful "Kolozec" demonstrates amid lyrics sung in Polish (used almost everywhere in the record with huge result).
www.progressiveworld.net /quidam3.html   (270 words)

  
 New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock Q
Quidam was released in May 1996 during First Warsaw Prog-Fest.
The group is a six-piece: the standard bass/drums/guitars/keyboards quartet is reinforced by a flautist and a female vocalist who also plays flute and cello.
Quidam's second album came in two versions: Sny Aniolow (Rock Serwis RSCD 050) has Polish lyrics, while on Angels' Dreams (Musea FGBG 4256.AR) they are sung in English.
www.gepr.net /q.html   (6119 words)

  
 QUIDAM discography, MP3 and reviews
Influenced by MARILLION and CAMEL, this band elegantly blends harmonies, refined arrangements and diversity of orchestrations (keyboards, cello, flute, oboe, strings).
The neo prog style guitar playing is interlaced with haunting flute, cello that evokes depth, female vocals and keyboards that give an orchestral fullness to the music.
QUIDAM is certainly the main and most appreciated act to have emerged from this field, with ABRAXAS and COLLAGE.
www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=295   (191 words)

  
 Cirque Du Soleil - Quidam Tickets - Cirque Du Soleil - Quidam Theater Tour Schedule Show Ticket Broker
The most amazing aspect of the Quidam show is the acrobatic performance by a boy in a dynamic moving wheel.
Here the boy is placed in a wheel which keeps on rolling around the stage, and the boy with great ease maneuvers and performs great acrobatic stunts inside the wheel.
The Quidam show, with all its major acrobatic stunts is showcasing the perfect bodily functions, wherein the acrobatics perform effortlessly in mid air defying all the laws of gravity.
www.ticketspecialists.com /theater/cirque_du_soleil_quidam_tickets.htm   (567 words)

  
 Weekend: Who's who in Quidam
To allow her to pursue other projects, she appears in Quidam just six months a year.
Joined Cirque in 1993 and was in Mystere in Las Vegas for five years before going on tour with Quidam.
Character: Ward plays the surrealistic MC John, who guides a girl named Zoe on a magical journey of discovery.
www.sptimes.com /2002/11/07/news_pf/Weekend/Who_s_who_in_Quidam.shtml   (829 words)

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