She rehearses for about three hours a day while touring, and even more after the tent “OVO,” which premiered in 2009, was reimagined for the stage. She first performed in “Quidam,” then “Saltimbanco.” She has been performing in the tent show of “OVO” for two years before it recently went on tour as a stage show this year. She joined Cirque du Soleil five years ago after applying online and being accepted six months later.
Stretching and being self-aware enough to know when to train and when to rest limits that.īaata spent most of her childhood in Brazil, and she began to perform contortion and adagio (stationary balancing act) in a traditional circus there when she was 9 years old with her father. She explained that her body got used to it, though she does have some soreness, like most athletes. She started practicing contortion when she was 7 years old, Baata said. She would go watch the circus with him, and it was always the contortionist who interested her most. Her father was a porter, which is a performer who tosses a flyer performer in an aerial Russian Bar routine. There are also a red and a black spider who perform in supporting roles during her contortion performance.īaata, like Jiangming, was introduced to circus performing by her family. Next, he retrieves a tireless unicycle, balances the wheel on the cable, and, upside down, wheels himself along the cable.Īriunsanaa Baata, 28, of Mongolia, is the character of the white spider. After that, he retrieves a vine-like post with pegs, balances it on the wire and supports himself upside down on that. Jiangming starts just balancing on the wire.
Suspended from a metal frame, designed to look like vines, runs a thin cable looping downward. Jiangming’s father and grandfather were also slackwire circus performers. She was formerly a highwire artist and contortionist. Some 50 performers from about 15 countries and just as many support staff rehearse, rest, set up equipment, eat and ready themselves for the six shows they’ll perform at the Verizon Wireless Arena from tonight to Sunday.Ī day before the performances, Qiu Jiangming of China was practicing his slackwire act under the guidance of his coach, called “Mama Coach,” who is actually his mother. Bright bugs of many shapes and colors will teem on and above the stage for Cirque du Soleil’s show, “OVO.” There are scarabs, crickets, a lady bug, a fly, red ants, a few spiders, a dragonfly, fireflies, fleas and the Creatura.īefore the show, the scene is quite similar.
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