10. Februar 2009  
London  
Artistic Gymnastics

Cirque du Soleil in the 2012 Olympic City

For the third time in this new millenium - after 2000 and 2001 - the unique Canadian movement circus "Cirque du Soleil" is giving guest performances of its show "QUIDAM" in London, the host city of the next Olympic Summer Games in 2012, but not in a special tent, as is usual. Instead, the cosmopolitan ensemble is performing in the time-honoured "Royal Albert Hall".
The only German artiste in the show is Tony MEVIUS, who has already celebrated his 1,000th performance ...

Act from Quidam, Tony at the top, upside-down...

 >> Tony MEVIUS - a former artistic gymnast who participated in the German national league, representing SC Berlin, and was a member of the national junior team in the 1990s - is enjoying performing in one of the oldest and surely most elegant venues in the world, the "Royal Albert Hall", in front of an audience of 4,000. Over the past four years, the Cirque programme "Quidam" has taken him to four different continents. ...
After a European tour, which incorporates an eight-week tour of Britain and Ireland, "Quidam" will be proceeding to Brazil, where another six cities are on the schedule.  

In this way, the only German artiste in this show - who was selected in a casting in Berlin in 2003 which was organised by GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL on behalf of the talent scouts of "Cirque du Soleil" - will have the chance to visit his second homeland, Brazil. As GYMmedia reported in 2008, he married the Brazilian artiste Gracilene de Moura -Mevius, who also works for Cirque du Soleil in April 2008.

Despite the interesting global travel and the exciting experiences connected with it, Tony Mevius will probably be leaving Cirque du Soleil at the end of 2009 in order to devote his time fully to his Berlin company, the show troupe "Cosmic Artists" which produces highly successful shows for customers in the industrial and business sectors.(C) GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL