{"id":3959,"date":"2012-09-06T09:46:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T16:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2012-09-07T09:43:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T16:43:32","slug":"cirque-du-soleil-quidam-thrills-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/09\/06\/cirque-du-soleil-quidam-thrills-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirque du Soleil: Quidam thrills Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the agility of athletes, skills of gymnasts, and grace of ballerinas, Cirque du Soleil\u2019s multifaceted and super-talented performers kept the audience\u2019s hearts racing and jaws dropping during their performance of Quidam on September 5 at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Arena.<\/p>\n

Quidam brings a bountiful performance combining what is real and surreal while featuring super-human talent. The story starts by character building with zany ring master John, tough-guy Boum-Boum, entertainment-seeking child Zoe, and her self-indulgent father and isolated mother.<\/p>\n

Zoe\u2019s imagination starts entertaining her when she is visited by Quidam, a headless suit-wearing man with an umbrella and bowler hat. Zoe takes Quidam\u2019s bowler hat and heads into a surreal adventure alongside her new imaginary friends The Target and The Aviator.<\/p>\n

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Zoe explores her inner imagination, searching for insight on her parents\u2019 lives as well as her own.<\/p>\n

Live music, audience participation, aerial\/acrobatic skills, and the underlying plot of Zoe\u2019s family life make Quidam enriched with action during this high-intensity show that seems to fly by with all the action happening on stage at once.<\/p>\n

Although the storyline is quite cryptic and leaves much to the imagination, the impressive line-up of acts (including the German Wheel, Spanish Webs, Aerial Hoops, and more) are prominent and are examples of the talent and training behind Quidam.<\/p>\n

The lack of nets, harnesses, and safety cables kept audiences at the edge of their seats and in awe while the symbolism and storyline kept everyone\u2019s mind racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the agility of athletes, skills of gymnasts, and grace of ballerinas, Cirque du Soleil\u2019s multifaceted and super-talented performers kept the audience\u2019s hearts racing and jaws dropping during their performance of Quidam on September 5 at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Arena. Quidam brings a bountiful performance combining what is real and surreal while featuring super-human talent. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}