Cirque du Soleil’s arena tour of Saltimbanco is coming to the Tampa Bay area! John Fleming, St. Petersburg Times Performing Arts Critic introduces the show to the community. From his article as published in the St. Pete Times:
- Cirque du Soleil’s campaign to take over the world — at least the show business part of it — has a fresh manifestation in its arena show Saltimbanco, which opens tonight at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa. This is not a new Cirque show. Saltimbanco goes all the way back to 1992, and its creator was Franco Dragone, one of the gurus of the Montreal-based company. It’s more of a pure circus show — complete with a juggler, trapeze duo and trick bicyclist — and doesn’t have the thematic pretensions of later Cirque productions like Quidam or Alegria. When I saw the show in Lakeland in April, these questions popped into my mind:
- What’s with the title?
- Does it have a plot I can follow?
- Why an arena staging?
- Will fans of the Cirque tent shows see their return?
- What are Saltimbanco’s best parts?
- What’s it like to fly so high with no safety harness, no net, in a daredevil act like Russian Swing?
See the answers and more by reading the original article.
{ SOURCE: Tampabay.com, St. Pete Times }
