A Cirque du Soleil performer has been injured following a “rough landing” during a show in Auckland this afternoon.<\/p>\n
The man was injured during the final act of Cirque du Soleil Corteo’s 12pm performance at Spark Arena.<\/p>\n
“An artist who is part of the final act Tournik act had a rough landing in the safety mattress during the completion of a group acrobatic skill,” a Cirque du Soleil Corteo spokesperson told 1News.<\/p>\n
Set on a double-sided stage, the show \u2013 directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca \u2013 imagines a festive parade from the perspective of a clown. The show premiered in Auckland on October 30.<\/p>\n
The show was stopped as a precaution while the performer was taken backstage, where he was “immediately taken in good care by our performance medicine team”. <\/p>\n
“He was fully conscious and was transported to the hospital for further examination.”<\/p>\n
The show resumed around 25 minutes after the incident. <\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John said Event Health Services were at the show, and crews were notified of the incident at 2.11pm.<\/p>\n
“Our crews assessed and treated one patient who was transported to Auckland City Hospital in a moderate condition,” a St John spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The performer’s condition will be monitored by Corteo’s medical and coaching teams “to determine when he can safely return to his activities”. <\/p>\n
Corteo’s final Auckland shows were due to go ahead through to Sunday at Spark Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cirque du Soleil performer has been injured following a “rough landing” during a show in Auckland this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-124141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-auckland","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}