Can you have circus without the tent? Cirque du Soleil answered heck yeah to the question with the awe-inspiring premiere of its Quidam revival last night at the Cow Palace. We're not that into gun shows and tatoo conventions, so we had never been to that venue. We only needed the excuse of wholesome family fun to check the place out, and it turns out we missed out a lot: pictures of previous shows hang in the hallways, from the Grateful Dead to Neil Diamond, Hulk Hogan, Elton John, John McEnroe and monster trucks and the inaugural games of the Sharks hockey team. And now the transposition of the Quidam show from the big top into the arena.