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Cirque du Soleil's Saltimbanco...
...SHOW: SALTIMBANCO...
FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY IS FORBIDden at Cirque du Soleil, the master of ceremonies announces at the outset of its all new show Saltimbanco, "because of the extreme danger it represents to the people of our world." Our world? To anyone unfamiliar with the previous spectacles of this Montreal-based big top -- Le Cirque Reinvente and Nouvelle Experience -- the emcee's remark will seem twee and pretentious. But he's not kidding. Their world is beautiful, seductive, utterly otherly...
...invited to participate, at its Manhattan stop or later this year in Chicago, Boston, Washington and Atlanta. Saltimbanco (an Italian term meaning "street performer") will leave no one untouched and few unprodded or untweaked. A visitor may discover a sobbing clown in his lap or find herself in an impromptu troupe of somersaulters. One gent was lured onstage to safari through an invisible jungle, then high-noon it in a sham shootout...