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Running away and joining the circus hasn't lost its allure, at least for the dancers who piled into Studio 6 at the San Francisco Dance Center one winter day not long ago. Breakdancers, belly dancers, and baton twirlers, twenty-eight in all, turned out for a Cirque du Soleil dance audition, one of ninety-five auditions Cirque holds around the country each year.
The innovative Montreal-based troupe requires that candidates submit a resume, a fifteen-minute video, and photos in advance. Based on that, the circus decides whom to invite to an all-day audition. The dancers invited to the San Francisco Dance Center had typically diverse backgrounds. Male and female, tall and short, stocky and slender, from Africa, Canada, Cuba, Japan, and the United...
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