Press release n° 12 – Monday, September16th, 2013
Sensational news! “Cirque du Soleil” will be at Latina for the 15th edition of the International Circus Festival.
Simply sensational! One of the world’s largest Circus companies, “Cirque du Soleil”, shows its support for the Festival at Latina on its “Special Anniversary Edition”: one of the competing artists at this year’s Festival will be performing a fantastic “diabolo” number that comes to us directly from Soleil’s “Quidam” show. The number will be performed by a young artist from Taiwan, William Lin.
William Lin is a 24-year-old performer from Taiwan who started to practice the art of “diabolo” at the age of 14, becoming a specialist in the discipline: through his art, he bares his soul. William Lin’s European début was at the Circo Roncalli Tempodrom in Berlin in 2008. In 2013 he began his artistic career with Cirque du Soleil, performing his “diabolo” number for the touring cirque show “Quidam”, with which he will be touring all over Europe until early 2014. In his “diabolo” performance, William Lin combines superb technical skill with the excellence of style, musicality and choreographic brilliance that epitomizes all of Cirque du Soleil’s productions.
The official participation of Cirque du Soleil in the competition at the 15th edition of the “International Circus Festival – City of Latina” demonstrates, in a very real way, the status that this event has gained around the world, and in particular with the most significant ‘movers and shakers’ in the world of Circus productions.