Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Foggiest Idea

Circuses mean more than sawdust and cheap tricks; the best supply magical moments. Wonders are the stock in trade of Montréal-based company Cirque Eloize, a collaboration of musicians, actors, acrobats and poets that has been producing stunning, sensuous shows since 1993. Nebbia —“fog” in Italian — is the third opus in Swiss-Italian director Daniele Finizi Pasca’s Sky Trilogy, following the stage spectacles Nomade and Rain. In it, cord twirlers make music in a scene recalling school-recess jump-rope sessions; trapeze artists and contortionists spin and twist; a cannon fires smoke rings; and a clownish ringmaster calls the shots. Throughout, gauzy clouds drift and separate to reveal ethereal settings — a whole forest of spinning plates suspended on sticks; angels slowly falling and rising on a trampoline. Prepare to be dazzled.