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The Dream
"I've had a long relationship with 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' Every ten years or so it presents itself again in a different guise. A children's theatre production, a small contemporary version, a huge symphony orchestra spectacular, an Elizabethan Shakespeare festival experience. And it's always a new play; the well never runs dry, it just gets deeper. After several productions, I began to wish for a Puck who could really fly, and not on a wire; someone who could personify the force and freedom of the natural world. Someone who could lead the story into the realm of our spiritual relationship with our environment, a realm that could become an actual, physical place.. After 1,000 backflips around the world in Cirque du Soleil's 'Quidam' and 'Mystere,' Karl Baumann wanted to run away from the circus for a while. Collaborating with him and some of my favorite designers, we've begun to play with these ideas in three productions at three different theatres, gradually realizing the world we imagine, and realizing how relevant that world is to what's happening on the planet today."
- Baumann and Umberger plotting the moves
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