Daniel Brusilovsky on CrunchGear’s blogs recently caught up with Gerald Edwards-Webb, the Technical Director of OVO, and took a peek behind the scenes at Cirque du Soleil’s OVO. One of the places Mr. Brusilovsky got to peek under, was the stage:
- Gerard took me were not too many folks go to go — under the stage. What most people also don’t know is that there is only about 4-10 feet from the bottom of the stage, to the concrete floor that the show is setup on. So the actors use moving carts to travel across under the stage to get from one place to another. The stage is quite complex, and uses a various amounts of different material, and even includes three trampolines. I shoot some video of the main trampoline bed opening in the middle of the stage. The trampoline bed opens up in a matter of seconds, and uses a hydraulic system to actually open and close.
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{ SOURCE: CrunchGear }
