doodledee

We saw the big Cirque d'Soliel last night. It's 2+ hours of androgynous white faced performers flying around or tying themselves into knots or acting like clowns. The show also has this kind of ethereally trippy feel to it, which weirds you out enough to really get lost in the performance. It's like the greatest NBA halftime show you've ever seen - only way better, and way longer - and all the performers are Eurotrash Deadheads who like to 'live the lifestyle'.

As for the performance itself, I really dug the aerial stuff, especially this one sequence where they used huge trampolines to do some pretty mint flips. There was also a big trapeze sequence that looked impossibly difficult and was cool to watch from below. Personally, I don't really go for the hoop-spinning pretzel girls, but there were plenty of them to go around. All in all, a great show.

One interesting thing I learned was that Cirque d'Soliel is actually from Canada. I always thought it was from some place in Europe, most likely France. Once I learned it was Canadian, I was hoping for some sweet Canadian cameos, but there weren't any. All I wanted was for Alex Trebek to come out and eat some fire; is that too much to ask?