I saw the Calgary Premiere last week. Highly recommended. Everyone I spoke with liked it.
My review on Gymnastics Coaching:
… I was going to write a review … but Heath McCoy in the Calgary Herald pretty much nailed it:
… as in most Cirque shows, the storytelling plays a distant second to the spectacle, and, happily, the latter aspect of OVO is grand.
The staging, with its vibrant ecosystem, complete with giant-sized webs, cocoons and a monolithic egg (a thematic symbol of the bugs’ life cycle, ovo means egg in Portuguese) is spectacular.
The dazzling costumes — an inspired hybrid of superhero spandex and historical suits of armour — are suitably outlandish.
And the stunts — played out to the Brazilian electro-pop sounds of a cockroach band, which run the gamut between romantic and sizzling — are nothing short of stunning. …
Magnifique! Cirque du Soleil’s OVO must be seen to be believed
Click PLAY or watch the Calgary preview on YouTube.
Overall … the highlight of this show are the costumes. (That caterpillar is enough to give you nightmares.)
The weakest element, as usual, are the clowns. … Though I somewhat liked Flippo. He grew on me as the show progressed.
I’m flying to Tokyo on Sept. 22nd, hoping to see the Cirque show there called ZED. I’m assisting at Cirque auditions in Tokyo Oct. 18th and 22nd.
Rick McCharles 