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The Creative Places and Spaces conference continued for a second day Friday, exploring how collaboration can foster innovation and lead to breakthroughs in city-building. Also, there were rhythmic gymnasts.

                            

The first thing you notice when you walk into the tent to see OVO, Cirque du Soleil's latest production, is the smell. It's hard to pin down. Sharp, slightly fetid, with an ineffable sort of thickness about it. Then the sounds: crickets, the swoosh of wind gusting through treetops, wings flapping. As the seats begin to fill, a beekeeper or two (at least, we think that's what they were) wander the aisles, tending the paper butterflies that flutter from the ends of the poles they carry through the crowd.

You may have already heard about the stellar line-up of bands going on for this year's Wintercity, but there's much more to this festival than an eclectic mix of tunes.

jokes.

Cirque du Soleil's much-anticipated new show, , opens tonight in that signature blue and yellow tent next to Ontario Place. If Torontoist's trusty informant (we're in with one of the ushers) is to be believed, Cirque's latest offering once again promises the usual suspension of the laws of physics, this time for a story involving a clown's funeral procession.

Whatever you do, don't see Cavalia. We don't know how it was that TOist found ourselves stuck in the distillery district with two free tickets to Cavalia(a Cirque du Soleil gone to the horses kind of thing) last year, but somehow it happened, and we've been forever scarred.

Les organisateurs du Cirque du Soleil ont toujours su émerveiller leurs audiences à travers leurs multiples spectacles. L’été dernier, c’est Allegria qui posait ses pieds pour la première fois dans la ville reine. Cette fois-ci, un spectacle un peu plus différent y est proposé : Cavalia.