Cirque du Soleil - Saltimbanco DVD 1994 Güneş Sirki - Saltimbanco / Directed by Jacques Payette / Touring show by Cirque du Soleil

UPC 8680891600361

MADE IN Turkey

REGION 2 PAL DVD

AUDIO: English 5.1

Total Runtime: 78 minutes

English Summary:

Saltimbanco was a touring show by Cirque du Soleil. Saltimbanco ran from 1992 to 2006 in its original form, performed under a large circus tent called the Grand Chapiteau; its last performance in that form was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 10, 2006. A new adaptation of the show started touring North America on July 31, 2007, with its first stop in London, Ontario, Canada. The new version was staged in arenas with fewer performances in each city it visited. The new version closed at the end of 2012.

Turkish Summary:

Güneş Sirki adıyla bilinen Kanadalı gösteri grubundan birbirinden güzel akrobatik hareketlerle kimsenin yapmaya cesaret bile edemediği görsel bir şölen.

Cast

The 51-member performance troupe included multiple musicians, singers, acrobats, and characters.Characters mentioned in the show's promotional literature included:

• The Urban Worms
• The Multicolored Worms
• The Cavaliers
• The Baroques
• The Death
• The Ringmaster
• The Baron
• The Dreamer
• The Punks
• The Songbird (La Belle)
• The Blue Gypsy
• The Child
• Eddie
• The Angels

Acts

The acts in Saltimbanco were a mix of traditional circus acts with more modern acts.

• Adagio trio: Three acrobats performed in an adagio that drew inspiration from acrosport.
• Chinese poles: Up to 26 performers performed in this act using four 25-foot-tall (7.6 m) poles in the middle of the stage. They climbed up, dropped down, jumped between, hung from, and even spun on these poles.
• Balancing on canes: A handbalance artist performed feats of strength and various contortion poses, including the Marinelli bend, while balancing on high handstand supports.
• Juggling: A juggler used multiple balls in a display of increasing dexterity.
• Boleadoras: Two performers twirled boleadoras in this unique act. The bolas are a percussion instrument that is hit against the ground to produce a loud popping sound. The act later included the use of the Taiko by one of the performers while the other used the bolas to play a complementary beat.
• Russian swing: Multiple artists jumped off a large swing, performing twists, spins, and flips, before landing on human pyramids, a mat, and other props.
• Solo trapeze: A young artist swung a trapeze incredibly high, whenever the trapeze was swung high the artist would spin up multiple times, and would catch the bar of the trapeze with her legs.
• Hand-to-hand: A duo used an incredible amount of body strength in this act as one would balance in a handstand on the other.
• Bungee: Four aerialists suspended from bungees flipped, swung, and bounced in synchronization with each other.

Rotational acts

• Aerial straps: A performer swung on these straps and would use upper body strength to create many dangerous poses.

Retired acts

• Tight rope (double wire): An acrobat ascended a wire as two more tightropes, one three feet higher than the other, were revealed. She performed various tricks including flips, spins, and splits. She even backflipped from one rope to the other, and then jumped back. This act was removed from the arena version due to rigging issues.
• Contortion: This act featured four female contortionists from a previous Cirque du Soleil show, Nouvelle Expérience. It replaced the hand-to-hand act for several years, but did not continue after the 1998 revival.
• Diabolo: This was a solo diabolo act using Western-style diabolo tricks.
• Vertical rope: This was one of the original Saltimbanco acts, a Spanish web act originally performed by the adagio troupe. This act was not seen outside of the North America/Japan tour.
• Manipulation: This act featured three women manipulating ribbons and hoops. It replaced the boleadoras act.
• Artistic bicycle: A bicycle artist wheeled around the stage, all the while playing the guitar, hand balancing, swinging and dancing on wheels.
• Duo trapeze: This act featured two female artists who would swing on a trapeze, one would leap off and would be caught at the last minute by the other performer and be brought back onto the trapeze for the next trick.