Quidam...

[fajrdrako]

Tonight I went to see Le Cirque du Soleil show "Quidam". I think I watched the whole thing with my mouth open in amazement.

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Impossible to describe any of it, because it was such a world of wonders. Indescribable. They make an evening's entertainment out of doing the impossible, and making it beautiful.

My favourite were the acts shown above, each of which grew in amazement as it continued. The Adam-and-Eve balancing act by Asa Sokol Kubiak and Jérome Le Baut was called "Statue" and I've never seen anything like it. The man-in-a-hoop act which opened the show, they describe this way on their website:

An acrobat becomes master of his own domain from within a giant wheel consisting of two metal hoops joined at six points and measuring over six feet in diameter. In a display of strength and agility, he rolls, turns and spins while nonchalantly performing somersaults and twists. Artist(s) currently performing the act: Cory Sylvester and
Shayne Courtright.

I don't know which performer I saw. Describing the act in words demeans it. It's all light and motion and human flight.

That is not to ignore the other parts of the show.... All of them theatrical, clever, and startling. Some of them funny, some sexy. Beyond the skill involved, it's a masterpiece of staging. The artistry is amazing, because the whole thing is so creatively conceived, so much a combination of costume, lighting, music, motion, colour and idea as well as human feats of dancing, acrobatics, and flexibility. The gentleman behind me kept muttering, "Unbelieveable." It was. Perhaps they have invented the anti-gravity stage, but haven't told the rest of the world about it yet.

A literally breathtaking show.