[ATTENDED: December 9, 2021] Cirque Dreams: Holidaze [moved from December 29, 2020]
My family loves going to Cirques. We have gone to many and we’ve enjoyed them all.
But we haven’t been to one in a few years, and the kids are older now, so we weren’t sure how much they’d remember about this kind of show. But we figured they’d enjoy it.
And, it was holiday themed!
The show is about 90 minutes long (with an intermission). And like most cirques, it features acrobatics: juggling, balancing, strong men, a Cyr wheel, and men and women spinning through the air.
The big difference between this show and other cirques is that there was a lot of singing!
Christmas was not so much the theme as the plot of the show. Set a the north pole, two people set about going to different stations to collect things for a gift for Santa. So they would travel from one act to another, watch the performer do his or her thing and then collect an item for the sack. A tenuous story, but you don’t really need a narrative for a show like this (although it is fun to have one).
The acts were fun–a guy who balanced on a cylinder on its side (after adding more and more things to it–it was quite impressive and his feigned fear was very effective). He then juggled as well. There was another juggler who bounced the balls off of boards to creative a very cool visual effect. (more…)