wow.. i guess it's been a long long time since i updated this blog.
decided i had to jot down some notes about cirque du soleil's totem! since i never got round to doing that for the other shows, although i'm sure i had thoughts about the acts.
sadly, missed the first act. i usually like the trampoline/fast act, whatever they call it. but the last bits that we caught, was not very impressed by. seemed like the carapace made things a bit squeezy. but again, it probably had to do with the fact that we were viewing it from the side and not the front. this is why i would be willing to pay for category 1 seats. but again, these category 2 seats were not bad.. and already totalled almost $100 :( ah well, discount tickets...
umm. hoop dancer. i couldn't figure out if that was supposed to be an act. sort of? filler item? anyway, not very impressed either.
thankfully it got better :p rings trio! it was kind of random though, people dressed in beach clothes read: berms for the guys, showing off their crazy muscles and 6-pecs, and the girl was ridiculously muscular too, quite scary.. i think we found out from the program that she's ukrainian. anyway, the guys were somewhat coordinated i think. although i liked the one nearer us in the orange/yellow outfit than the other guy in blue. seemed like the orange guy was more lithe and acrobatic, haha. stronger. i don't think they were completely in sync though, tsktsk. funky music. oh yes, indie hiphop music. kind of random.
oohh.. good stuff. unicycles and bowl juggling. all asian girls! the requisite all asian act.. lol. usually it's like this or diabolos (tossing these top-like things on strings) or contortion (ooh, haven't seen that in a while..) anyway they were pretty awesome! crazy high unicycles and were tossing bowls (light metal ones) from their feet and catching them on their heads. or tossing them onto other people's heads. crazy!!! really gd coordination. although one of the girls missed once. sometimes i wonder if they purposely throw some mistakes in to remind us they're human. or is it quality lowering, cos the first few cirque shows i watched, i don't recall there being mistakes. or just accidents, which is also possible.
foot juggling! also pretty impressive :) they were twirling these clothes! to make them spin. and i was just marvelling at their coordination.. like, each foot has to spin the cloth.. and then one foot has to be spinning at full speed while the other starts up. i think my feet/hands/brain would get really confused. i unfortunately missed one of the coolest parts though, cos i was trying to take a photo :/ not a gd choice.. to take a photo at that point. cos one girl was balanced on the other and she had both her feet spinning clothes, and somehow they managed to get like 6 (or 8? don't even know if that's possible hm) clothes spinning.. maybe 6. hmm. anyway, was gorgeous :)
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