From watching a man fly in the air while hanging from a lamp, to watching bikers soar several feet above your head, or watching a woman stand on the shoulders of a unicyclist. Every sight is stunning, impressive, and little scary.
The circus is known for giving customers many of these daring feats and bringing a smile to their faces. Even further, Cirque du Soleil has become a world-renowned circus for doing all that and so much more.
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This article and the words actually speak to me on a very deep level. Having grown up in a small rural town in the US, it was always difficult or frowned upon to break out of the "normal" box. It is always exciting to see a new show pushing boundaries and promoting individuality, which is great, but in all honesty I'm sort of getting tired of it. For example, if you look at more recent additions to the Broadway stage you will see that the majority of them have a major theme of self realization. "Dear Evan Hansen", "Mean Girls", and as we now know "Cirque du Soleil: Volta" all have this theme at the core of the performance. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I think it represents a certain direction that I predict theater is going in, especially for musical theater. In my opinion, musicals are moving from a blend of tragedies and comedies to an over hyper version of the later. Though some musicals like "Dear Evan Hansen" still have somewhat depressing storylines, the basic arc of the Freytag Pyramid sits at its core. For theater to be everything that it says it wants to be (new, innovative, unpredictable), we need to take a break from happy endings, no matter how tempting they may be.
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