Performance: Cirque du Soleil's 'Ovo'

August 17, 2012 at 8:36PM
"Ovo"
"Ovo" (Margaret Andrews/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

In the past decade, Cirque du Soleil has brought shows to the riverfronts in Minneapolis and St. Paul, to Parade Stadium and to Target Center. The Canadian troupe's latest themed spectacle takes place in a tent in the north parking lot at the Mall of America. "Ovo" ("Egg") is set in a fanciful, bio-diverse world of gymnastic fleas and ants that juggle kiwi-like slices with their feet. The insects -- curious, fiery and frolicsome -- become agog when an egg appears in their midst.

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Rohan Preston covers theater for the Minnesota Star Tribune.

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