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Imagine a dazzling and colorful world dominated by frolicking insects that accomplish marvelous feats to infectious Brazilian music. This is OVO, the Cirque du Soleil story of a mysterious egg that fosters a romance between a ladybug and a grasshopper.
Once inside the Grand Chapiteau (Big Top), the audience is refreshed by the aroma of grass sprinkled with dewdrops. Before them is an energetic society of colorful insects displaying astonishing agility. Fleas, ants, butterflies, fireflies, scarab beetles, dragonflies, crickets, spiders and caterpillar vie for attention as they flit, soar, crawl, balance and defy gravity.
The insect colonies are comprised of 54 athletes and gymnasts from 16 countries, several of them Olympians, all champions in their individual disciplines. They are supervised by artistic director Marjon Van Grunsven and trained by head coach Alexandre Sasha Pikhienko.
Van Grunsven developed the movements representative of an ecosystem. A professional dancer, teacher, choreographer, Pilates instructor and founder of her own dance troupe, she has worked in this country and abroad. Before joining the OVO team, she was artistic director of "Delirium" which closed in 2008.
She recalls that the first time she met the chosen artists, there was a lot of talking, sharing and exchanging thoughts. After it was decided how each insect would operate, her job was to delegate tasks to the gymnasts, contortionists and trapeze and trampoline artists to determine how their ideas could be accomplished.
Although the show is about movement, not dance, their insect-like movements are very much a fusion of the bossa nova, samba and other Brazilian music styles. To develop each routine, the composer (Berna Ceppas) worked with the performers and created music to support a particular trick. Along with him, many Brazilian contractors were on hand doing set design and lighting. All of them are very passionate about love and life and this enthusiasm translated to the entire company.
Sasha Pikhienko joined the Moscow Circus at 17 as a gymnast, to the pride of his father, an engineer, and his accountant mother. His love of sports and the circus was inherited by his daughter Olga, his partner in "Clown and Girl," a 1992 gold-medal winning act at Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris. Olga is now a member of "Quidam," the Cirque du Soleil show currently touring South America.
After winning a silver medal at Beijing's World Festival of 1993, Pikhienko toured with Ringling Brothers before retiring and opening a gym in New Orleans. But he could not resist returning to a circus environment in 2000 when Cirque du Soleil named him head coach of "Varekai," followed by "Mystere" and now OVO.
His job is to teach the artists how to avoid injury through an individual plan. This is a personal thing and their own responsibility. Because all are responsible for ten shows weekly, this demands hours of daily rehearsal and conditioning that include balance, coordination, upper body strength and lower body strength. Pikhienko points out that the athletes never stay on the same level, but continually grow. Although some are a little better than the others, all are on a very high level maintained with proper fitness training.
Van Grunsven emphasizes that the non-stop show thrills all ages, from the very young to great-grandparents. The show that started as the creative team's baby, has matured to a masterpiece in body movement by artists who have grown technically and remain fresh through rigorous training.
By the time the smell of flowers fills the big top, the big finale begins, and the artists ascend the vertical wall with only team coordination and personal power to lift them, the audience is inspired to leap up and dance to the music.
Emily Cary is a prize-winning teacher and novelist whose articles about entertainers appear regularly in the DC Examiner. She is a genealogist, an avid traveler, and a researcher who incorporates landscapes, cultures and the power of music in her books and articles.
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