Quidam

Just a short note here. Watched Quidam on DVD today, and good heavens it was good! I wish now that I'd gone to the actual thing. Am determined to watch at least one Cirque du Soleil performance before I die. It's positively magical...it's not so much a circus in the traditional sense of the word as it is a piece of absurdist theatre. Everything taken totally to extremes. Brilliant costumes and makeup to really make the faces of the characters totally otherworldly. And the performances themselves...stunning displays of grace, delicacy, inhuman precision and incredible sheer strength. What really struck me was how little time the show actually stayed on the ground. I mean, there were the usual servings of acrobatics and clowns and juggling on the ground, and rather clever comedy, but most of the time you have people dangling from cloth or ropes and entwining themselves into incredible shapes, or you have acrobats leaping up three storeys to complete this unbelievable human skyscraper, or you have trapeze artists twirling themselves into helicopter frenzy. Seriously a magical experience, that show. I think it would be easy to slip back into a sort of childish sense of wonder under that big top. You'll start believing in magic after that show, because so many incredible things happen. Heh, as it was I caught myself applauding at the TV screen =P

Anyhoos, the very best of wishes for people going into the university interviews this week. The only thing I can think to say at this point is to get a good night's sleep. Helps you to keep your head in the interview, and in things like these, I find that a clear head is the most important asset. Heh, and may as well have fun, right? Knock their socks off, guys!

pondered by phoenican @ 16.10.05