Magic... music... movement... magnificence. My first time. Tonight I joined the ever-growing crowd of awestruck Cirque du Soleil spectators. If you've attempted a front flip over your crouching partner, springing from and attempting to land on a tight rope, missed, and "barely" caught yourself by the hands, would you get right back up and try it again? If you were sprung from a see saw, flipping backwards and attempting to land with your feet on the shoulders of a man standing on the shoulders of another man, and failed three times, would you try it a fourth? If you were performing one-handed acrobatics on the back of a chair below which 9 others are piled up, would you be able to do it under the scrutiny of the audience, the lights and the clapping, without any safety device?
They would. They do. They don't give up. They are made of sheer strength, concentration and especially perseverence. The circus is out to inspire and the Cirque du Soleil in particular has yet to fail in this mission.
Tonight they painted a grin on my face that lasted throughout the show and for some time afterward. I felt like a six-year-old child again. I gasped and exclaimed. I cannot remember the last time I was in such a sustained state of awe.
There are still some tickets left since Kooza runs until the third week of June, so if you can, make time to watch a perfomance.
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I agree! I saw it! I was evry impressed!
Yet, I fell like they desserve some critics... Maybe I've been seeing to many circus shows, and I'm a hard public...but there are some parts of the show that left me thirsty for some more... like the trapezist who was just hanging from her trapeze by one hand and going in circles... then she made 3 spins and left.. The spins were undoubptably nice... but I would have liked to see some more... The equilibist on the chairs....climbed up his chairs... he even made the effort to put a balancing cane into one chair. Then he made one move on it, and persued climbing..but but there is so much more that he could have showed us on a balancing cane...
Don't thing that I didn't like the show! I thought there were great great parts to it! Cirque du Soelil put plenty of things in my eyes! And I definitly think it was a great investment, and that everyone should see it! All I'm saying is that some parts just felt as if they were arranged at the last minute. I guess it is still a new show...and it will only get better with time!
Keep up the good work.
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