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Date : May 10, 2009

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About Cirque du Soleil, the Guinness Book of World Records & a lot of Stilts

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Published on: May 10, 2009

Well, the post title is actually very descriptive. This post is about Cirque du Soleil. Adding stilts to the mix should also not be surprising, considering that Cirque du Soleil was founded back in 1984 by a troupe of Stilts??Walkers, dubbed the ???High Heels Club???. You can now guess What Cirque du Soleil and stilts have to do with the Guinness Book of World Records. Na??? C???mon!?????? Okay, I don???t want anybody to die stupid, without knowing the following facts hehe. Background Information On June 16, 2004 Cirque du Soleil set a new record for the Guinness Book of World Records when they gathered 544 employees in the Montreal Headquarters and had them stilts walking at the same place, at the same time. 544 folks on stilts is a lot, however, the record only lasted about 2 years, until 2006, when this record was being taken away from Cirque by a group of Japanese folks, who in turn lost their record also in 2008 to 625 youth from Ontario. So 625 stilts walkers is now the official record and Cirque thought that things are somehow not right.?? 2009 marks the 25th anniversary of Cirque du Soleil and they thought that they will be damned, if they will not be able to reclaim the record for them (for pride, honor and as a birthday gift for themselves). The Upcoming New World Record Attempt On June 16, 2009, five years after the original record was set, Cirque du Soleil is going to[…]

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