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disclosure – I love Cirque du Soleil

November 18th, 2007 | circus, product endorsements, salary (contract)

by Rick McCharles, editor GymnasticsCoaching.com

I’m an unabashed promoter of Cirque du Soleil. The shows are fantastic. But I love best the career opportunity Cirque provides for hundreds of acrobats and dozens of coaches worldwide.

Boris.jpgIf you know me, you know I have been a fan for 20 years. Even more so after our good friend Boris Verkhovsky went to Montreal to become Head Coach.

I have dozens more friends associated with the company. And for the past year or two I’ve consulted for the casting department on occasion.

That said, I’d like to welcome Cirque du Soleil as the first advertiser on Gymnastics Coaching. It’s not for selling tickets — the link is for coaches who have athletes that might want to audition.

The ad will help keep this site alive. Everyone who contributes is a volunteer. No one is paid.

Cirque du Soleil is always looking for ways to give back to the world community of acrobats. The better we get, the better their shows will be in future.

And working in the performing arts is one of the very best job opportunities for the acrobats we coach.

7 comments ↓

#1 Tarik Rammo on 11.18.07 at 3:47 am

I couldn’t agree more. Not only do they have wonderful shows, but it gives gymnasts etc. an opportunity to earn a living doing acrobatics.

You almost can’t make a living if you are a competitor, unless you are among the very best.

So hopefully I’ll be there one day, and make my dream come true.

#2 michael-ngsc on 11.18.07 at 3:39 pm

I’m also a huge fan of the cirque du soleil shows and the ad is very discrete, so no worries about it at all here ;)

#3 Tracy on 01.30.08 at 5:18 pm

Rick, do you know if Boris ever coached at Hal Halverson’s Flathead Gym Camp in Montana? I SOOO remember him and I can’t remember where from. I trained a bit at Big Sky for a summer or two as well as the camps. His name just takes me back!

#4 coach Rick on 01.31.08 at 2:04 am

Of course. Boris was at Hal’s camp every year. Sometimes Hal even paid him to coach.

: )

#5 Tracy on 02.01.08 at 10:09 am

Does this mean that you were there? Then maybe I had met you before?

#6 coach Rick on 02.01.08 at 12:02 pm

I only got to Hal’s camp 2 or 3 times over many years.

I was too broke as a young coach to pay the camp fee.

: )

#7 Gymnastics Coaching » Blog Archive » acrobatic jobs at Cirque du Soleil on 05.02.08 at 7:20 am

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