Cirque Dreams
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capnzebbieI went with my mom, my sister and my niece to see Cirque Dreams this evening. It was a live show at one of our local theaters, and it was really very entertaining! It wasn't as huge and spectacular as a Cirque du Soleil show, but this was an auditorium with a standard sized stage.
The show was like Maxfield Parrish, Salvador Dali and the person who does the art for the Harry Potter books got together and smoked some opium and had a group hallucination. Not an acid hallucination, or a peyote hallucination, this was definitely an opium hallucination.
There were acrobats, contortionists, aerialists, people in weird costumes, a balancing person (I don't know what that would be called but he was amazing!), clowns, a juggler and a singer. The music was like a combination of Kojiki and Queen, sung by someone who sounded like Eva Cassidy. She hit a good, solid high C toward the end of show.
The clowns brought people out of the audience to do things, and it was very funny seeing the different reactions of the people. Some people participated wholeheartedly, one girl kept trying to run away--it was all funny--the audience laughed and clapped. :)
There were a couple of sisters from Mongolia who were contortionists--Did you know that Mongolia has a State School of Contortion? Neither did I! But it says so right here in my program.
There were also these three half-naked men with hairless chests who crawled all over each other and did athletic things--homoerotic much? It was fascinating to watch. There was a big one, a little one and a medium-sized one. While they were onstage there were also these weird things that looked like psychedelic giraffes that were dancing around. There were other things that looked like giant dayglow green, black and pink spiders that were writhing around on the floor, and these other dancing things that looked like they were made of giant tubes covered in multicolored polkadots. Okay, maybe there was a little acid hallucination in there.
The juggler was bizarre. I didn't realize until his act was over that he had a mask on the top of his head. He reminded me in strange way of Jim Carrey. Acting like a monkey. Kinda creepy like that.
The balancing guy--it says in my program that he's a "Wheel Roller"--was the most amazing part. He did that thing where you balance on a platform on top of a rolling cylinder and waggle back and forth. Then he put a ladder on top of the platform and climbed to the top and waggled back and forth, and I was thinking, "Wow! I can barely climb a ladder that's standing still! Very cool!" THEN he put a drum-like cannister on top of the rolling cylinder, put another rolling cylinder going the other way on top of that, then put another drum on top of that cylinder, then a platform. THEN he climbed up on top and waggled back and forth and turned all the way around in a circle! It was VERY COOL!!! And THEN he added a thing shaped like a figure eight in the middle of all that. He only waggled a little on that, but it was amazing enough that he even got up there. *g*
We had a great time!
The show was like Maxfield Parrish, Salvador Dali and the person who does the art for the Harry Potter books got together and smoked some opium and had a group hallucination. Not an acid hallucination, or a peyote hallucination, this was definitely an opium hallucination.
There were acrobats, contortionists, aerialists, people in weird costumes, a balancing person (I don't know what that would be called but he was amazing!), clowns, a juggler and a singer. The music was like a combination of Kojiki and Queen, sung by someone who sounded like Eva Cassidy. She hit a good, solid high C toward the end of show.
The clowns brought people out of the audience to do things, and it was very funny seeing the different reactions of the people. Some people participated wholeheartedly, one girl kept trying to run away--it was all funny--the audience laughed and clapped. :)
There were a couple of sisters from Mongolia who were contortionists--Did you know that Mongolia has a State School of Contortion? Neither did I! But it says so right here in my program.
There were also these three half-naked men with hairless chests who crawled all over each other and did athletic things--homoerotic much? It was fascinating to watch. There was a big one, a little one and a medium-sized one. While they were onstage there were also these weird things that looked like psychedelic giraffes that were dancing around. There were other things that looked like giant dayglow green, black and pink spiders that were writhing around on the floor, and these other dancing things that looked like they were made of giant tubes covered in multicolored polkadots. Okay, maybe there was a little acid hallucination in there.
The juggler was bizarre. I didn't realize until his act was over that he had a mask on the top of his head. He reminded me in strange way of Jim Carrey. Acting like a monkey. Kinda creepy like that.
The balancing guy--it says in my program that he's a "Wheel Roller"--was the most amazing part. He did that thing where you balance on a platform on top of a rolling cylinder and waggle back and forth. Then he put a ladder on top of the platform and climbed to the top and waggled back and forth, and I was thinking, "Wow! I can barely climb a ladder that's standing still! Very cool!" THEN he put a drum-like cannister on top of the rolling cylinder, put another rolling cylinder going the other way on top of that, then put another drum on top of that cylinder, then a platform. THEN he climbed up on top and waggled back and forth and turned all the way around in a circle! It was VERY COOL!!! And THEN he added a thing shaped like a figure eight in the middle of all that. He only waggled a little on that, but it was amazing enough that he even got up there. *g*
We had a great time!
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