"This is really about Madonna," said Jacques Methe, Cirque du Soleil's executive producer and general manager of events and images, during a phone conversation. "There will be incredible staging around a new song, and something we have never done before. But don't expect a flurry of acrobats. That is not really what it's all about."

Even thought it is a manifest truth that it is Madonna's new single Give Me All Your Luvin', Jacques Methe can't confirm the song choice. "I can't say," he said. "It's top secret. But it will be very, very Madonna."

But don’t expect Madonna to share the stage with actual Cirque du Soleil performers. "Our involvement is a very different kind of thing," Jacques Methe said. "We're bringing some of our creative people to the process of the staging."