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again the magical inventiveness of Cirque du Soleil have
created another fantastic show straight from the genius of
their entwined minds. With silly ineptness, two clowns run
around the theater with an umbrella that is obviously so
full of holes as to make it useless, this initiates a round
of laughter, as the audience realizes that they are in store
for another unique and spectacular show. Then an amazing
aroma of spices assails your mind as a man swings a large
incense burner, as some weird looking characters run down
the aisles toward the stage with questions hanging in the
air. All of a sudden, the curtain parts and perfectly
synchronized swimmers splash in unison while a pair of
trapeze artists come down from the ceiling to meet above the
watery world on the stage. O is the French word for water,
but spelled eau and pronounced O, as this wonderful show
involves the unbelievable amount of water held in a tank in
a theater; which is 1.5 million gallons. This aquatic show
brings the world of fantasy into reality with the amazing
feats of divers, synchronized swimmers, incredible acrobats,
trapeze artists and the wonderful imaginations involved to
create a fantastic world of water that will mesmerize you
and set you on a course of magic dreams unlike you have ever
experienced before.
This masterpiece includes 85 performers from 20 different
countries and a stage crew of 150, brought together to
envelop you in another dimension much like the artistic
wizardry of Salvatore Dali or Vladimir Kush. The constant,
continuous flow of the show will surprise and delight your
eyes as the lighting and soundtrack bring about a
metamorphosis of life while singers and musicians enrapture
your mind with these dazzling apparitions. Suddenly a barge
has floated center stage from the ethereal and amazing
acrobats float into various shapes and poses with their
bodies. No longer individual bodies, but imaginary parts of
numerous puzzles that shift and shape to create awesome and
mysterious images that will beguile your mind and senses.
While the stage metamorphs from a 25 foot deep pool into a
dry flat floor, in moments, the three elements of the earth;
air, water and fire appear when a tribal dancer enters
twirling two fired batons. With each passing moment, acts
begin to change with the swiftness of the senses and then
three swings are in front of you with divers launching into
the air spinning, flipping and falling into the now immense
water area below. Next a ladder appears and three divers
climb the 60 feet into the air and get on a platform where
they all dive together into small areas of the pool and as
the audience holds its breath, they immerge with triumph and
applause.
With astonishing grace and agility performers stupefy the
audience with their movements in the water changing forms as
they move. The show's power to assuage your senses and to
explode the horizons of your mind will be something you
never thought would happen in a theater; but with the Cirque
all illusions are made real and the audience is the
benefactor. With infinite beguiling, the show continues
taking you from one surrealism into another. A man sits
reading a paper; but he's on fire! soldiers fly around the
stage on carousel horses and sirens dance across your vision
with marvelous fancy. As often as you blink, there is
something happening that you weren't aware of a moment
before, and just as quickly as your mind wraps itself around
this new vision, another is coming into focus and waking the
senses of your thoughts. It is a show like no other and is
as exciting as anything that Cirque du Soleil has ever done.
With unbelievable precision, the acts follow one another
without respite or incident, while the onlooker is immersed
in a unique dimension that has left this earth and gone into
the world of water. This show is fantastic and better than
most of the Cirque's, well worth seeing even at the high
costs that accompany this group.
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