It was opening night for Cirque Du Soleil's QUIDAM at the Bryce Jordan Center - and it was a damn fine show, that tasty European-feeling fantasy circus kind of thing - ending with standing ovations and many many hands stinging from clapping.
QUIDAM - a young girl's escape into a world of imagination...
http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/shows/quidam/tickets/state-college.aspx
The music and scoring were excellent, odd, dreamy, multicultural - a fine meal for the ears.
The show itself was intimate - not the huge technical productions of some Cirque Du Soleil shows - a round powered stage with a arcing scaffold holding the aerialists provided the technical magic, but the show was about storytelling and symbolism, not mechanics.
And, it was funny as hell. Funny, in between feats of strength and skill and clowning, and displays of risk and daring - and the beat, beat, beat of a dream of family, life, death, sleep, and resolution.
I thought the father as a trained juggling seal (at least that's how I saw it) was especially poignant, And that's all I will say about the narrative - go see it yourself. Read more »
