Celine Dion Taking Chances World Tour Dvd Torrent
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Jamie King joined the tour on 2 May 2008 in Manchester, England. Before that date, the show was not on a central stage (except in Japan and Osaka) for logistics reasons. After two and a half months, Dion rehearsed again to perfect the show for the "in the round" setup. Because of Dion's bilingual career and the restrictions of certain arenas and stadiums on the tour, King had to direct and choreograph three separate shows. One show featured a set-list mostly of English-language songs, and was performed in-the-round using the full system of mobile screens, elevators, and conveyor belts. The second show also featured the center stage arrangement, but included ten of her best-known French language songs for performances in Francophone countries. A third, less-complex show was then designed for venues where the center stage would not fit physically, or where it would be impractical to transport the stage. An end-stage setup was used in these cases (as they were mainly indoor arenas), featuring a massive central video screen, and a lighting system that engulfed the stage in brilliant blue and red on three sides. Before the European leg, the central- and end-stage shows were finalized and then reconfigured, again, changing lights and cues, in order for the three separate shows to fit in these two stages. Dion premiered new costumes when the European tour began.
Dion and her band rehearsed about 60 tracks, both in English and French. Among those, about 27 songs were selected and ultimately performed live, according to each visited market. "Pour que tu m'aimes encore", one of her biggest French songs, internationally, was performed throughout the whole tour; the song set records in the 1990s as the best-selling French-language single of all time, and one of the only French songs in music history to achieve chart success in many non-Francophone countries. The singer also performed several favorite cover songs, including: James Brown's "I Got the Feelin'" and "It's a Man's Man's Man's World", and Queen's "We Will Rock You" and "The Show Must Go On" (although the last two were dropped starting with 27 October Winnipeg show). She also performed Kiki Dee's "I've Got the Music in Me"; this song was removed after the show in South Korea.[4]
On 22 August 2008, the City of Lvis aired Dion's honorary Quebec City's 400th birthday concert on both the web and television. Dion performed in front of 250,000 people.[6] Additionally on 31 August 2008, a special performance of "My Love", aired on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.[7] It became later the official video for the single "My Love."
Official tour photo book, called Celine autour du monde was released on 24 September 2009 in Qubec and France and It includes 368 pages with 485 photos by Grard Schachmes. There are images from concerts and backstage, photos of Dion, her family, tour team, dancers, singers, musicians and technicians, Dion intimate moments with her husband, Ren Anglil, and their son, Rene-Charles. There are all kind of photographs from walking on the River Thames, in a park with lions, a safari in Africa, to travel in private aircraft, including the arrival of trucks in the early morning in New York City and the spectacular assembling the scene.[8][9][10] The book was released in Canada on 14 October 2009. The U.S. and Japanese editions are also planned.
The tour was chronicled in the documentary, Celine: Through the Eyes of the World, which gave the "unique opportunity to follow Celine everywhere, on stage, backstage, enjoying free time with her family; this movie will show it all."[11] It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 11 May 2010.
Taking Chances World Tour: The Concert was released on 11 May 2010. It contains a DVD and a live CD of the English and French setlists (each released separately). The English set list was recorded in Boston (on 12 and 13 August 2008), while the French one in Montreal (on 31 August and 1 September 2008). There is also a deluxe edition including both DVDs and a 52-page booklet and fold-out souvenir postcards.[12][13]
Dion set a record in the history of Canadian concerts, when she sold out all her Montreal shows in only a few minutes.[14] After further shows being added, bringing the total to 11, Montreal's audience (with 20,995 in attendance at each show[15]) became the largest on the tour with 227,616 spectators for a single city. Dion performed in Bell Centre 31 times since 1996.[16]Other Canadian concerts were sold out immediately, prompting second dates to be added in Edmonton, Vancouver and Winnipeg, and a third show added in Toronto.[17] In the United States, second dates were announced in New York City, Uniondale, Boston, and Newark.[18] In Ireland 64,000 tickets for her Dublin concert, the largest single concert of the scheduled tour, were sold out in 3 hours.[19]
Dion also sold out stadium audiences in South Africa, Netherlands (50,000) and Denmark (42,000).[20] A second concert date was added for Sydney, Australia after tickets were selling fast in the country.[21] For a 22 August 2008 free concert (not a part of the Taking Chances Tour), Dion sang in front of her biggest crowd, up until that point, when she performed on the Plains of Abraham to help celebrate Quebec City's 400th Birthday. Tickets were distributed to around 250,000 people.[22]
The concerts received mixed reviews in the press. Diane Coetzer of Billboard claimed Dion's first performance in South Africa "may not have ultimately succeeded in presenting her as a multi-faceted performer, but it definitely confirmed that Dion is a singer of unparalleled ability. Performing in a stadium that ordinarily holds rugby fans and flanked by two huge screens, Dion used her astonishing voice to captivate the near-capacity crowd." Coetzer praised the dancing and visuals, but believed the choice in covering soul songs and songs from Queen made the show awkward until the closing in which "My Heart Will Go On" was performed.[29]
Sarah Rodman of the Boston Globe wrote positively, "There was never a dearth of stimulation, be it her own costume changes, the intricate lighting, the video imagery, or her cadre of dancers, deployed judiciously. It's a testament to her skill however, that even when the songs weren't strong, Dion was."[32]
Much of the critical division came towards Dion's new image as someone who came back from a Vegas showcase. Dave Simpson of The Guardian gave the Manchester concert 3 stars out of 5 and stated, "in her nine-year break from touring (apart from a residency in Vegas), Dion has clearly been abducted by aliens and replaced by CelineBarbie, a dancing sex goddess who makes raunchy smiles at the camera, dances with musclemen, performs rockers penned by Pink's songwriter Linda Perry and, bizarrely, turns Roy Orbison songs into gay disco."[34] An article in Sun Media gave the Toronto concert 3.5 out of 5 stars and stated, "Is Celine Dion really taking chances anymore? Well, the name of her current world tour would say that she is, but the 40-year-old mega-selling pop star is basically Vegas personified."[35] On the other hand, The Vancouver Sun after praising the show's set-up, stated, "The idea here is presumably to humanize the diva, as it were, and, fittingly, during the show Dion makes use of two protruding catwalks to "mingle" with the audience. It's worth questioning how humanizing an influence doting devotees who can justify spending $520 for two hours of light entertainment really are, but that's a whole other thesis."[36]
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