{"id":5381,"date":"2011-03-16T21:19:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T03:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2016-04-13T18:41:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:41:38","slug":"cirque-tokyo-zed-and-kooza-employees-evacuated-to-macau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/cirque-tokyo-zed-and-kooza-employees-evacuated-to-macau\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirque Tokyo ZED and KOOZA Employees Evacuated to Macau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a personal rule I do not post Cirque Du Soleil information that has not already been released to the public. That is not any directive from management. Just a personal guideline. I feel ok to post this since it has already been published publicly at:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/communities.canada.com\/montrealgazette\/blogs\/stageandpage\/<br \/>\narchive\/2011\/03\/15\/cirque-du-soleil-japan-update-zed-performers-<br \/>\nevacuated-to-macau.aspx<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Cirque has decided yesterday to transfer all its employees currently in <\/em><strong><em>Japan<\/em><\/strong><em> to <\/em><strong><em>Macau (China).<\/em><\/strong><em> These preventative measures touch the staff and artists of <\/em><strong><em>ZED<\/em><\/strong><em>, presented at <\/em><strong><em>Tokyo Disneyland<\/em><\/strong><em>, which is closed for the next 7 days, and artists and staff of <\/em><strong><em>Kooza<\/em><\/strong><em>, presented in <\/em><strong><em>Fuji Dome<\/em><\/strong><em> in <\/em><strong><em>Tokyo<\/em><\/strong><em>, which is also cancelled until further notice. Artists and staff will benefit from the support of the <\/em><strong><em>Macau<\/em><\/strong><em> colleagues and will be able to pursue their training at the <\/em><strong><em>Macau <\/em><\/strong><em>training centre.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The <\/em><strong><em>Cirque<\/em><\/strong><em> has two permanent shows in Asia. In addition to <\/em><strong><em>ZED<\/em><\/strong><em> at <\/em><strong><em>Tokyo Disneyland<\/em><\/strong><em>, there&#8217;s <\/em><strong><em>ZAIA <\/em><\/strong><em>at the <\/em><strong><em>Venetian Hotel<\/em><\/strong><em> in Macau. <\/em><strong><em>Kooza <\/em><\/strong><em>is a touring show which just happened to be playing in <\/em><strong><em>Tokyo<\/em><\/strong><em> at the time of the quake.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here in Macau China, like so many around the world, we are monitoring the situation in Japan while our hearts and prayers go out to the people there.<\/p>\n<p>To put a positive and hopefully not superficial spin on things &#8211; Here in Macau we are VERY happy to host our Cirque family artists, technicians and support staff from ZED and KOOZA. Cirque Du Soleil is very much a circus family so we hope to make our brother and sister Cirquesters feel at home during there stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a personal rule I do not post Cirque Du Soleil information that has not already been released to the public. That is not any directive from management. Just a personal guideline. I feel ok to post this since it has already been published publicly at: http:\/\/communities.canada.com\/montrealgazette\/blogs\/stageandpage\/ archive\/2011\/03\/15\/cirque-du-soleil-japan-update-zed-performers- evacuated-to-macau.aspx &#8220;Cirque has decided yesterday to transfer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1oN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6657,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions\/6657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}