After months perfecting essentially the most daring methods and flips, it was an emotional return to the stage in Montreal this week for Cirque du Soleil’s artists, lastly performing once more within the province the place the well-known circus was born.
The Cirque’s touring present ‘KOOZA’ opened within the Outdated Port of Montreal on Thursday, the primary efficiency in Quebec because the pandemic nearly dealt a loss of life blow to the acrobatic reveals.
“We're all a little bit extra grateful to be right here, and we cherish the moments a bit extra, simply trigger it was ripped away impulsively,” Matthew Antonucci, a Cirque du Soleil performer, informed CTV Information. “So I positively really feel coming again, there have been tighter hugs and larger kisses.”
Cirque du Soleil was first established in 1984 in Montreal with simply 20 avenue performers. Though the troupe turned a phenomenon over the many years since, the curtains for all the enterprise practically closed for good in 2020.
The Cirque was compelled to shutter 44 of its reveals around the globe, shedding practically 5,000 workers — 95 per cent of its employees, together with teeterboard artist Talita De Lima.
“That is my all the things,” she informed CTV Information. “It is my life, it is my household, and when this occurred, it was very unhappy for us — don’t have our job, and we do not know if we'll come again or not.”
Cirque de Soleil is understood for its daring acrobatic methods, sensible colors and wildly inventive reveals, filled with performers contorting their our bodies, hanging from ropes and trapezes, and performing different feats of human flexibility that look practically not possible to the common eye.
It’s a extremely specialised trade — when Cirque needed to shutter nearly all of its reveals, these performers didn’t have many different locations the place they might carry out on the identical stage.
Lima went house to Brazil to be with household in the course of the pandemic.
She says that whereas she saved up with weights and gymnastics whereas away from the Cirque, it wasn't as straightforward as she thought it could be for her physique to begin spinning and twirling once more when rehearsals resumed again within the fall.
“Once I begin, my physique mentioned ‘oh uh, one thing fallacious,’” she mentioned. “I am like, ‘OK, it take a number of weeks for the physique to really feel like, what's occurring.’ After one week, all the things is okay, it is good.”
Cirque began rolling out extra reveals final summer season, reopening a number of in Las Vegas, Nevada and returning to Canada in April with the opening of ‘Kurios: Cupboard of Curiosities’ in Toronto, Ontario.
A rebirth can be taking form behind the scenes, because the troupe appears to be like to bounce again from the brink of chapter.
“We needed to hold adapting to the evolution of the pandemic, in order that by far has been the toughest to handle,” Stephane Lefebvre, president of Cirque du Soleil, informed CTV Information.
Over 100,000 tickets have bought up to now for this present in Montreal alone, and its run has been prolonged into August — hopefully the start of a high-flying comeback.
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