The Colorful Bugs of Cirque Du Soliel’s OVO Dance to your Brazilian Overcom
Imagine a dazzling and colorful entire world dominated by frolicking insects that achieve marvelous feats to contagious Brazilian tunes. This is OVO, the particular Cirque du Soleil story of a mysterious egg that encourages a romance between a ladybug and a grasshopper.
Once within the Grand Chapiteau (Big Top), the crowd is rejuvenated by the scent of your lawn sprinkled using dewdrops. Before all of them is an dynamic society of colorful pesky insects displaying amazing agility. Ticks, ants, butterflies, fireflies, scarab beetles, dragonflies, crickets, spiders as well as caterpillar vie regarding attention while they flit, soar, crawl, balance as well as defy the law of gravity.
The pest colonies tend to be comprised of 54 athletes along with gymnasts from Sixteen countries, several of them Olympians, all champions within their individual procedures. They are monitored by creative director Marjon Truck Grunsven and qualified by brain coach Alexandre Sasha Pikhienko.
Truck Grunsven developed the movements representative of an ecosystem. A professional professional dancer, teacher, choreographer, Bikram yoga instructor and also founder involving her own dance troupe, she has labored in this nation and in foreign countries. Before signing up for the OVO team, she was artistic director of “Delirium” that closed inside 2008.
Your woman recalls the first time she met the chosen performers, there was lots of talking, revealing and trading thoughts. Following it was made the decision how each insect would operate, your ex job would have been to delegate responsibilities to the gymnasts, contortionists and trapeze and trampoline artists to find out how their particular ideas could possibly be accomplished.
Although the show is all about movement, certainly not dance, their own insect-like movements are extremely much the fusion of the bossa nova, samba and other B razil music designs. To develop every single routine, the actual composer (Berna Ceppas) worked with your performers as well as created tunes to support a certain trick. Along with him, numerous Brazilian contractors were on hand doing set design and also lighting. All are very passionate about love as well as life which enthusiasm translated to the entire company.