Post Gazette: The program for "Cirque Dreams: Pop Goes the Rock" tells you you've entered a fun house, but the theme that emerges throughout is, "How did they do that?" and "Why did they realize they could to that?" Three able vocalists and an onstage band provide pop/rock tunes as laser lights penetrate deep into Heinz Hall and costumes provide significant sparkle and shine, but it's the performers who really turn up the razzle-dazzle.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Cirque dreams up feats of fun
Post Gazette: The program for "Cirque Dreams: Pop Goes the Rock" tells you you've entered a fun house, but the theme that emerges throughout is, "How did they do that?" and "Why did they realize they could to that?" Three able vocalists and an onstage band provide pop/rock tunes as laser lights penetrate deep into Heinz Hall and costumes provide significant sparkle and shine, but it's the performers who really turn up the razzle-dazzle.
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While this article is mainly about selling the tickets for the show, I wanted to take a minute to comment on the overall style and production quality that Cirque is so well known for. I have had the luck of seeing the Michael Jackson Immortal World Tour whe it was on tour in Sacremento California and was utterly blown away. While I have always known and seen a lot of the amazing spectical that Cirque continually creates, I never had the opporunity to be completely involved in these performances as an audience member until recently. I must commend the enitre production team and the performers who take part in this process because it is truly does leave one grasping for words to describe what you are seeing. The attention to detail and the skill to which it is executed leaves the audience wanting more.
Cirque is an amazing feat in itself with such a great compilation of various performers, this article how ever kind of just teases on the idea that makes the show so great. the "Wow" factor, leaving audience members thinking how did they do that? its the adrenaline that gets forced into the audiences veins as they watch these skilled performers accomplish astonishing feats. The question though that i have always had in mind is which sells more, the dangerous spectacular feat or the risk of failure. Yes we as audience members love seeing fellow human beings being thrown across the room performing particularly dizzying acrobatics but i would love to see a study on how much more enticed people are by the simple danger of the stunt itself.
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