Cirque Eloize

Going to the circus with my best friend, I expected giant elephants, spitting fire, and roaring tigers. Walking into the theater I quickly realized that this was not going to be that kind of circus.

The setting was dark and foggy, the exact opposite of what I thought it would be like. We immediately drooled over 'Stephane' and laughed at the swinging light and their random stories with hard to understand accents. They were all characters in a story, but I didn't realize that until towards the end.

The Martial Arts part was by far the most amusing. I could not stop laughing for 5 minutes straight. My stomach hurt. The men trying to mock the martial artist and failed miserably. They kicked each other, hit each other and fell down to the floor. I haven't laughed that hard in I don't know how long.

The part that amazed me the most was the big iron ball with 4 people all moving around it, holding onto each other and swinging round and round. This made me think of a team. They put all their trust in the others to hold them up, balance it out, and be elegant all at the same time. I enjoyed watching how they were all intertwined and moved around each other where i would lose them and only be seeing one object, instead of the many things it held.

The trampoline made my heart jump. They could jump so high! I was jealous. I wanted to jump on that trampoline. My favorite part was seeing them vanish on the ceiling, and drop out of nowhere to then vanish again.

That brings me to the xylophone players. They were hilarious, fighing over which song to play and how fast to play it. The sound was incredible but their stage presence was even better. Throughout the piece there were little things falling out of the sky onto them, ending with hundreds of them pouring out of the sky. This made me think about the dance performace where the strawberry fell out of the sky. Theres something about objects falling out of thin air that excites me.

The one thing I thought about the most was the little iron sculpture that wheeled in and out of stage throughout the performance. At first I thought it was just one random thing in the beginning of the show to be funny. Then I thought it was creepy. Then I loved it and wanted it to come out more and more. I thought about this little creature as one of the characters. I wondered why they put this random robotic sculpture in the story line at all, then realized that it would not be the same without it. It served a purpose. I'm still trying to figure out what its real purpose was, but honestly, that rolling robotic sculpture is the thing that stuck in my mind the most in Cirque Eloize. And maybe thats why they put it in there.

I loved that they had a storyline, characters and music. The music was absolutely amazing. It brough emotion to the whole story. I even teared up at the end. I very much enjoyed this unique circus and hope to see another like it.