Thursday = lots of crazy
Sep. 18th, 2009 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charloweenYesterday was very long. I met my tutorial students (some of them are great, some of them are damn sullen, and all of them like staring blankly), and then I went to the circus.
Cirque du Soleil, however, was fantastic. The theme for this show was bugs ("insects", fine) which worked to their advantage. If you've got humans doing crazy inhuman things (contortionists, aerial acrobats, whatever that spinning-polygons-with-your-feet thing is called), give everyone a little movement training to be a bit buggy, and dress them like superhero insects. It's a neat bit of otherworldly character work when you have trampoline artists playing frogs, or when your aerial silks routine is a chrysalis-into-butterfly thing. Or when your troupe of adorable Asian spinners-of-polygons are playing a troupe of adorable Asian-y ants who like playing with giant slabs of kiwi.
The act that got the biggest applause (before the tree frogs!) was something called "slackwire". It's like tightrope, except... loose. And swinging back and forth. And then the guy grabs a unicycle.
Their website informs me the spinning-polygons-with-feet is called "foot juggling". The site also informs me that this show - Ovo - will be in New York next May. Start saving those pennies, Eastern Seaboarders. It's so worth it.
The point: Cirque > tutorials.
Cirque du Soleil, however, was fantastic. The theme for this show was bugs ("insects", fine) which worked to their advantage. If you've got humans doing crazy inhuman things (contortionists, aerial acrobats, whatever that spinning-polygons-with-your-feet thing is called), give everyone a little movement training to be a bit buggy, and dress them like superhero insects. It's a neat bit of otherworldly character work when you have trampoline artists playing frogs, or when your aerial silks routine is a chrysalis-into-butterfly thing. Or when your troupe of adorable Asian spinners-of-polygons are playing a troupe of adorable Asian-y ants who like playing with giant slabs of kiwi.
The act that got the biggest applause (before the tree frogs!) was something called "slackwire". It's like tightrope, except... loose. And swinging back and forth. And then the guy grabs a unicycle.
Their website informs me the spinning-polygons-with-feet is called "foot juggling". The site also informs me that this show - Ovo - will be in New York next May. Start saving those pennies, Eastern Seaboarders. It's so worth it.
The point: Cirque > tutorials.
