The weekend, except for easter, a whole lot of food, and presents, brought us AFRIKA! AFRIKA!
That’s a circus in the style of Cirque du Soleil but with only African acrobats. It’s a project of Austrian artist André Heller whose work I really like (he also made the Swarovski Crystal Worlds which are just plain beautiful).
The show was amazing. I’d seen it one and a half years ago already, this time they had a new program (I’d say about 50% was actually new, but the parts I had seen before I had no problem with watching again).
It’s a two hour festival of the human body (how the hell can you move your body to fit through a tennis racket?), joy of living and of colours. The light show and the costumes, everything is utterly beautiful.
There’s a lot of dancing, traditional African dancing and break dancing, mostly. There’s some singing, a lot of contortion (I think some of these people are at least physically able to jump over their own shadows.) and juggling with different things (when was the point in time when somebody said “Oh, I could juggle a desk with my legs!” and who was this person?).
If you are anywhere near Vienna, go and see it! [Afterwards they will be in Graz, Barcelona, Milano and Paris. And in 2009 they’ll come to Asia.]
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As a boy who grew up on Russian Circus – and dreaming of becoming the star Trapeze artist who gets to hang out with the Russian girls – in India, I never really paid attention to anything other than said said Russian girls. But this looks good. The video in the site is awesome.
It really was awesome…
on the site, if you click on “Shows” (left) and then on the picture beneath “Show Video” (right) you’ll find longer versions. They all are from the old program though.
I never really dreamed of going to the circus. I guess the intelligent part of me wanted to protect me from my clumsiness, even in my dreams :P
But dude, they features some really pretty girls in the Russian Circuses.
Oh, I always find one or more guys I really like to look at (usually the tall and musceled ones at the bottom of a Human pyramide and the likes) but I always was a pragmatic… The girls mostly impress me but I never started drooling over one in the circus (I usually like them a little bigger than the petite acrobats).
“Oh, I always find one or more guys I really like to look at” :O
Bro, you do realize how that sounds!
HOLY CRAP! I just read your about page. Dint know you were a girl.
(sheepish grin)
I take that previous comment back.
*laughs*
Don’t worry about it. I don’t feel attacked in my femaleness or anything. And when I drool over Helen Mirren with you, you’re bound to have the impression I’m male. Not too many girls do that.
Anyway, I hope that doesn’t change things between us?! :P
Change? If anything, things might get even better (hee hee hee). Yeah, you are right, drooling over Helen Mirren is what gave me the impression. I read some of the comments I made on other blogs as replies to you. He he he, all of ’em were written with you as a guy in my mind.
the dangers of the internet… at least I’m not some 60 year old creepy guy posing as a girl (or am I? :P then you would have been right all along…)
Hehe…don’t worry, bro…I’ll never tell ;-)
quote: “HOLY CRAP! I just read your about page. Dint know you were a girl.” …. sounds like some beginning of a love story. Do you know Disney’s “Mulan” (or the Chinese original ) by chance? Literature is full of the boy-thinks-girl-is-boy-stuff, too. :o)
@Kalafudra: jeez, this is no good. I wanted to get you cards for “Afrika, Afrika” as your birthday-present. Well, we always wanted to go to some Fight-clubbish Event anyway. Now I’l get cards for “Keiko vs. Vienna” or the such and of course we must also bet on the toughest looking guy.
@L: We’ll have to see about the lovestory thing. First, I get set up by my cleaning lady… I’m sure there’s some literature for that as well :P
And we will find something to see, only good that you didn’t get the tickets yet (or so I hope)… I’ll call tomorrow!
@deadra: Thanks, I know I can count on you :)