Monday, December 1, 2008
It didn't take them long to trash Ms. Bouglione's act. Show business is special!!!!
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Wade G. Burck
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This post must be for me..LOL..Wade knows this is my favorite act....
Irina Bouglione was not the first to present this type of act. There was certainly one BRITISH act before she did it.
John,
Bloody hell, Mate. Your lip got a little stiff there, didn't it? We Americans have known since 1776, that the Queen set's the standard and blazes the trails. Yes, Brit Laura Miller was the first, but I was referring to the champagne glass prop used. Isn't Laura's different then this one and the one Irina uses?
Cheerio,
Wade
The first circus contorsion-handstand act in this kind of tank-prop was performed in 2002 by Gulnaya Karaeva in Kiev, Ukraina, on an idea and staging of coreographer Anton Chelnokov (former artist of Saltimbanco).
Miller's act was another thing.
The Ukrainian act won a gold medal in Paris Festival, and got booked by Soleil for the cast of Zumanity.
It was widely copied. Today there are at least half dozen.
Mrs.Bouglione was the first to do things differently: changing the prop from a half-sphere to a diamond shape, and combining this technique with aerial skills. Her is a real achievement and a great act.
Raffaele,
That's kinda what I thought about Mrs. Bouglione's act,(Mrs? Is she married, and I missed the boat again?") There is not an artistic bone in my body but Irina's just seemed classier and very elegant, and not "campy". The other one mentioned just looked more like a "wet T shirt" competition. Jumping in and out for the sake of getting the costume all wet and clingy.
Wade
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