Cirque du Soleil's "Ovo" will be performed at the Maverik Center in Salt Lake City from Feb. 22 to 26.
According to publicist Nicolas Chabot, the show is the 25th Cirque du Soleil show and tells the story of "a day in the life of a bug's colony." In the show, the bugs live together peacefully until blue flies disrupt the harmony of the colony — and one of them falls in love with another one of the bugs.
The show gets its name "Ovo" from the eggs the blue flies carry on their back when they enter the bug's colony. The performance was just in Washington and will head to New Mexico next week.
The Deseret News had the opportunity to catch a glimpse of "Ovo" backstage before its opening performance. Here are six interesting facts about the new Cirque du Soleil show.
See the photo gallery of the event from Deseret News photographers here.
It takes 19 trucks of equipment plus one more that caters food to perform the show.
There are 100 people on the tour — 59 artists, 25 technicians, three truckers and five managers — who come from 21 different countries.
The show travels with 1,000 different pieces of costume, according to Luana Ouverney, head of wardrobe for "Ovo." That includes unitars, shoes and headpieces.
Almost every performer has at least two pairs of shoes. All costumes are made in Montreal, and a few were even made with a 3D printer.
Many of the performers come from a sports background, but some also have experience performing in the circus. Qiu Jianming, who practices the slackwire act below, performed in the circus with his mother before becoming a part of Cirque du Soleil.
One of Chabot's favorite things about traveling through Utah is the mountains. In the video clip below, he explains what makes the state so special.
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