It has been suggested that Cirque du Soli sucks as they don't use animals. If they did I would imagine something along these lines. Will it improve their already phenomenal success?
Monday, July 14, 2008
Different type of elephant presentation--Arlette Gruss
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Wade G. Burck
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Hey, nothing wrong with experimenting with different costume, music and lighting styles.
The feathers and bikini style was copied from the Vegas revue type shows, and even Vegas doesn't have much in the way of the ostrich feather productions anymore. I went looking on my last two trips to Vegas, and all I could find was a couple of small revues in off-strip casinos.
So, maybe adopting a little Soleil within the traditional format might not be a bad thing.
By the way, Soleil has become more tradition than it once was - maybe not the Vegas shows, but Kooza has several top notch traditional acts, and the clowns actually had me laughing out loud, something I've never done with a clown number. Take out a few weirdos, put it all in a sawdust ring with some primo horse numbers and you're getting pretty close to a real updated circus.
Ian
Remember Pero Carrillo's sensational jump rope bit. Well, Soleil has four guys jumping rope simultaneously on two parrallel wires - jaw dropping!
Ian
Ian,
Absolutely nothing wrong with experimenting, but you have to experiment again if it doesn't work. That is exciting and risky. Sometime you will fail, and sometimes you will succeed brilliantly, and Solei has done that, Ringling does it, and a number of shows in Europe are doing it. When was the last time you saw a finale that was not performers walking around the ring curb waving flags?
Who is doing the wire act, where are they from.
Wade
Not sure who is doing the wire act - Latino dudes.
Ian
it's difficult to find out individual names, but it is my understanding that the high wire act is performed by The Quiros, from ringling and beatty-cole. one year they did a double wire act on ringling like the one of cirgue.
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