Cirque du Soleil returns to New Zealand next year with its iconic show, Quidam, last seen on our shores in 2005.
Kiwi audiences will be able to see what will be the final performances of the show's near 20-year run.
Featuring visually impressive acts including Italian Banquine acrobatics, aerial contortions in silk, juggling and contemporary clowning, Quidam is a feast for the senses that its artistic director Marjon Van Grunsven describes as being "both dramatic and exquisitely sad".
"It's important ... the audience knows that because I'm sure that our cast and our crew are going to need their support through to get through these last both beautiful and very sad days for them," she says.
"For the audience it will be very special, because it's going to be loaded with energy and history and stories and tears and happiness and pride."