Cirque du Soleil: OVO
Cirque du Soleil is delighted to announce that it returns to Budapest with a brand new show, the touring OVO, featuring a new line-up of huge performances and stunning acrobatic feats. A thrilling Cirque du Soleil experience, OVO offers a glimpse into a day in the life of insects; a non-stop frenzy of energy and movement. Through spectacular acrobatics, it highlights the unique personalities and abilities of different insects, showing the beauty of biodiversity in all its contrast and vibrancy. Three new characters have also been added to the hilarious OVO colony for the 2022 reboot, bringing new joy to all ages.
Schedule
- 18:30-21:001. Cirque du Soleil: OVO
- 18:30-21:002. Cirque du Soleil: OVO
- 14:30-17:003. Cirque du Soleil: OVO
- 18:30-20:004. Cirque du Soleil: OVO
- 10:30-13:005. Cirque du Soleil: OVO
From giant crickets jumping from trampolines to a hypnotic spider emerging from its web, OVO captures the imagination with extraordinary visuals. Funny and chaotic, yet adorable and wonderful, OVO captivates our inner child. Comprising 100 company members from 25 different countries, including 52 artists, OVO (which means egg in Portuguese) has staged high-level acrobatic scenes, redefining the limits of the human body and its performance. Since its premiere in Montreal in 2009, OVO has impressed more than 7 million people in 160 cities in 30 different countries.
OVO will be shown in Budapest for 5 times only, from 8 February 2024 at the MVM Dome.
Schedule of performances:
Thursday 8 February at 19.30
Friday, February 9, at 19.30
Saturday 10 February, 15.30 and 19.30
Sunday, 11 February, starting at 11.30 a.m.
MVM Dome
MVM Dome is the seventh largest indoor event venue in Europe. Its capacity for sports events and concerts is significantly higher than that of the Budapest Sports Arena. It has 20,022 seats; a total of 50,000 square metres of floor space; innovative, rearrangeable spaces for many indoor sports (handball, basketball and volleyball, futsal, ice hockey, tennis, skating) as well as certain athletic, equestrian and motorcycle competitions, and even swimming competitions and water polo matches in the mobile pool. Through the six entrances to the building, spectators can enter the arena’s interior using eight escalators, leading to the walk-through grandstands accessible on three levels. The structure of the building’s exterior is reminiscent of muscle fibres: the light strips placed on the outward-leaning, elliptical sections not only embrace the building, but the light shows, programmed using various colours, appear to set the entire building in motion. There is a 600 square metre display on the façade of the building. The Main Entrance leads to an impressive foyer, where visitors will be greeted by a grandiose hanging light installation of 848 handmade glass tubes. The programmable sports lighting is also suitable for HDTV broadcasts of the highest-level world competitions, as well as for super-slow-motion recordings due to flicker free technology. The lighting system also plays an important role in the events and concerts, as it is suitable for changing the colour temperature of the auditorium, which means that the lighting functions can be changed without rearranging the arena, only through the pre-programmed lighting controls. This design is the first and is unique in Europe for luminaires of this power. A central display (cube) provides information in the auditorium during the events.