la piste a ses toiles

English translation: art tops the bill

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French term or phrase:la piste a ses toiles
English translation:art tops the bill
Entered by: janisct

09:26 May 10, 2010
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / article on a circus spectacular
French term or phrase: la piste a ses toiles
Describing the latest offering from Cirque Plume, which is based on a series of tableaux, or paintings:
Avec le cirque Plume, la piste a ses toiles au Printemps des comédiens. (the latter is a festival in Montpellier)
janisct
Local time: 18:49
art tops the bill
Explanation:
paintings are given a chance to star
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polyglot45
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2art tops the bill
polyglot45
3 +1the art of the circus
Claire Nolan
4ars et circensens
Edward LAMB
3the ring now stars it in canvases
Euqinimod (X)
3 -1paintings make their way to the ring...
Leslie Marcus


Discussion entries: 3





  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
paintings make their way to the ring...


Explanation:
I took a look at the Cirque Plume's current website and that's what I came up with, or perhaps "Cirque Plume brings paintings to the big top/to the ring"

Leslie Marcus
France
Local time: 19:49
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: So if you disagree Edward, what do YOU suggest?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Edward LAMB: Sorry; but, as "polyglot45" has so pertinently indicated, everyone has missed the pun...
2 hrs
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
art tops the bill


Explanation:
paintings are given a chance to star

polyglot45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 52
Notes to answerer
Asker: If the circus analogy is to be retained, what about 'art enters the circus ring'?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Leslie Marcus: I like your answer better than mine!
33 mins
  -> thx ! generous of you

agree  Evans (X): yes, I think this is a good compromise. I think you have to give precedence to meaning over the play on words under these circumstances! You've also included a veiled reference to the big top in your choice of verb.
48 mins
  -> thx - the reference was, of course, deliberate !

disagree  Edward LAMB: Ditto; the circus allusion is lost..., in my humble opinion...
2 hrs

agree  ormiston: might 'art takes to the stage' restore the allusion?
3 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
the art of the circus


Explanation:
Art of the circus can refer to the actual craft involved in performing circus acts or art based on a circus theme. And in this context, it can refer to art being the theme of the Cirque Plume's newest show.

Cirque Plume brings the art of the circus to the Printemps des comédiens festival.

Claire Nolan
Local time: 14:49
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 23
Notes to answerer
Asker: Yes, I think incorporating 'art of the circus' in some way would be a good idea, but it has to get across the message that it is art as in painting that is involved, not just circus arts.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marian Vieyra
3 hrs
  -> Thanks, Marian.
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
the ring now stars it in canvases


Explanation:
A mere try.

Euqinimod (X)
Local time: 19:49
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 16
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
ars et circensens


Explanation:
A circus where budding artists exhibit themselves...

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Note added at 7 hrs (2010-05-10 16:45:57 GMT)
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State of the art circus

"The Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard became the epicenter of this renaissance, until its preeminence was contested by the new, state-of-the-art circus that Leonid Brezhnev had had built at Vernadsky Avenue, on Lenin Hill, near Moscow University—and which is known today as Moscow’s Bolshoi Circus."
http://www.circopedia.org/index.php/Circus_Nikulin

Edward LAMB
France
Local time: 19:49
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: But I think this gives the impression of artists in the sense of painters, and here they aren't, they are circus performers with the performance being staged like tableaux or pictures in a museum.

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