CIRQUE DU SOLEIL RETURNS THIS FALL.Byline: - Daily News Those ever-inventive folks at Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (French for "Circus of the Sun") is an entertainment empire based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Daniel Gauthier. have a new show called ``Varekai,'' and it's coming to Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, for a number of dates starting Sept 12. Cirque describes ``Varekai'' - which means ``wherever'' in the Romany language Romany language Indo-Aryan language of the Roma (see Rom), spoken in many countries of the world, with its greatest concentration of speakers in eastern Europe. Romany is believed to have separated from the northern Indian languages c. AD 1000. of the gypsies - as being about a young man who parachutes into a magical forest populated by fantastical creatures. OK, all you really need to know is that you can expect the same fantastic acrobatics acrobatics Art of jumping, tumbling, and balancing. The art is of ancient origin; acrobats performed leaps, somersaults, and vaults at Egyptian and Greek events. Acrobatic feats were featured in the commedia dell'arte theatre in Europe and in jingxi (“Peking and spectacle for which the French-Canadian troupe is famous. The first performance of ``Varekai'' - which has been called ``buoyant entertainment that flies by almost too quickly in two and a half hours'' by the San Francisco Chronicle The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young.[2] The paper grew along with San Francisco to become the largest circulation newspaper on the West Coast of the - is Sept. 12 under the blue-and-yellow Grand Chapiteau at Staples Center, parking lot No. 2, at the corner of Olympic and Georgia. In typical fashion, Cirque hasn't announced how long ``Varekai'' will run, but it's expected to be there a few weeks at least. It then moves to Pomona for a very limited engagement at Fairplex, Dec. 4-28, followed by a visit to Costa Mesa on Jan. 16, 2004, at the Orange County Fair Orange County Fair may refer to any of several large fairs throughout the United States.
The first opportunity to buy tickets will be exclusively through cirqueclub.com beginning today. New club membership is free and available immediately at the site. Tickets will go on sale to the general public at a later date; specifics will be announced in the coming weeks. Other information is available at cirquedusoleil.com. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: no caption (Cirque du Soleil) |
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