For those of you who don’t know what that is or whom they are..Cirque de Soleil (Circus of the Sun) is one of the most famous circus companies in the world. They are the pioneers in modern circus art and are the people who redefined the way circus was being performed.
Their shows are not for children and hence you don’t get to see clowns running here and there cracking jokes you will not laugh at. The best part that differentiates Cirque from the others is that it is a “part theatre” and “part cinema” performance. The show moves on as a story with fantastic performances in between- that too without the lions, tigers, elephants and parrots.
Our project team (me, Jas, George and Shaun) decided to go to Cirque de Soleil, as our minor project in one of our core subjects was on Cirque de Soleil. Day before yesterday, before I went to the show, I was also thinking that it would be one of the regular shows and they became famous just by luck. And now I take back my words.
We went to a story line called “Kooza” a performance inspired by the middle eastern culture . It is a story of a small boy who wants possession of magic wand. It combines two circus traditions – acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. The show highlights the physical demands of human performance in all its splendor and fragility, presented in a colorful mélange that emphasizes bold slapstick humor. The Innocent's journey brings him into contact with panoply of comic characters such as the King, the Trickster, the Pickpocket, and the Obnoxious Tourist and his Bad Dog. The major difference I found between the Indian circus and Cirque de Soleil is the insistence on safety. All the artists here at the Cirque performed with their safety belts and other equipments, while in India if the artist mis-dives, then God save him.
Be it though. The show was amazing and given a chance I would love to go and watch the show again. Thanks Cirque for making my day memorable!!
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