{"id":17177,"date":"2014-02-27T10:29:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T17:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/?p=17177"},"modified":"2014-02-28T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T21:45:38","slug":"up-and-coming-cirque-du-soleils-amaluna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/up-and-coming-cirque-du-soleils-amaluna\/","title":{"rendered":"Up and Coming:
Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Circus, Performance<\/p>\n

Directed by Diane Paulus
\nCirque du Soleil<\/a>
\nBoston Marine Industrial Park on the Waterfront, Boston, MA
\n5\/29\/2014 \u2013 <\/p>\n

Tickets to the general public go on sale on 2\/28\/2014. Presale tickets to Cirque Club members available beforehand. (Please check Amaluna event website<\/em><\/a> to confirm details.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Amaluna<\/a>
Courtesy of Cirque du Soleil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
A show directed by American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus – which sounds like an interesting feminist adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest<\/em> – featuring a mysterious island, its queen, Prospera, her daughter, and some shipwrecked suitors.<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

In Shakespeare’s late romance, The Tempest<\/em>, a mysterious island is governed by Prospero and inhabited by, among others, his daughter, Miranda. Some shipwrecked sailors come ashore and tales of romance and reconciliation abound.<\/p>\n

Diane Paulus, who brought a great Montreal circus, Les 7 Doigts de la Main<\/a> – originally showcased in Boston at ArtsEmerson – to the American Repertory Theatre performance of Pippin<\/em><\/a>that eventually went to Broadway. <\/p>\n

Here, she has another delightfully inventive, highly successful, circus – also from Montreal – to work with, and, no doubt, the results will be interesting.<\/p>\n

\"Director<\/a>
Director Diane Paulus with “Amaluna” cast members
Photo: Courtesy of Cirque du Soleil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As described by Cirque du Soleil and Director of Creation Fernand Rainville, “Amaluna<\/em> is a tribute to the work and voice of women.\u201d <\/p>\n

Cirque du Soleil also offers the following explanation of the show’s title: “Amaluna <\/em>is a fusion of the words ama<\/em>, which refers to ‘mother’ in many languages, and luna<\/em>, which means ‘moon’; a symbol of femininity that evokes both the mother-daughter relationship and the idea of goddess and protector of the planet. Amaluna <\/em>is also the name of the mysterious island where this magical story unfolds… ” <\/p>\n

Apparently, in keeping with the general theme of the show, the cast features 70% women and an all-female band.<\/p>\n

– BADMan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Circus, Performance
\nDirected by Diane Paulus
\nCirque du Soleil<\/a>
\nBoston Marine Industrial Park on the Waterfront, Boston, MA
\n5\/29\/2014 \u2013
\nTickets to the general public go on sale on 2\/28\/2014. Presale tickets to Cirque Club members available beforehand. (Please check Amaluna event website<\/em><\/a> to confirm details.)<\/strong>
\nA show directed by American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus – which sounds like an interesting feminist adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest<\/em> – featuring a mysterious island, its queen, Prospera, her daughter, and some shipwrecked suitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-circus","7":"category-performance-art","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17177"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17190,"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17177\/revisions\/17190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostonartsdiary.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}