Cirque
Cirque noun - Something with a perfectly round circumference.
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Turn
Turn noun - A relaxed journey on foot for exercise or pleasure.
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Cirque du Soleil's Corteo is about the performers of a turn-of-the-20th-century European circus, so it invokes this trope.
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Cirque du Soleil, as noted under the Real Life listing, uses lots of these, but Corteo is actually about them; most of the major characters are turn-of-the-20th-century circus clowns.
Source: Non-Ironic Clown - Cirque du Soleil was likely the inspiration for the importing of dubious foreign variety revues at the turn of the millennium, as well as mostly unsuccessful direct imitators (Imagine, Storm).
Source: Follow The Leader / Theatre
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