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Cirque du Soleil’s OVO shocks Red Deer audience with superhuman feats
To disappoint is simply not in the vocabulary of Cirque du Soleil, delivering yet another electrifying, hair-raising and whimsical performance, obliterating the boundaries of the human body with their revamped classic show OVO in Red Deer.
Directly translating from French as “Circus of the Sun,” OVO is the production’s first arena tour since the pandemic put a pause on the arts scene, touring a new city each week and performing at Red Deer’s Westerner Park from July 7-10.
“It’s an immersive experience that anybody can really take away from. I hope people come in and kind of forget about their lives and worries for a couple of hours and just really be mesmerized and come into the ecosystem of OVO,” said Janie Mallet, senior publicist for the show.
It began with a 22 foot tall inflatable “OVO”, the Portuguese word for egg, that disintegrated into a cloud of smoke, the stage quickly replaced by a flood of the 52 artists each exemplifying a unique insect with acrobatic movements to accentuate the species and test the human imagination.